Seeing “skills”
in your dream

A knife sharpener in a dream represents someone who teaches people skills, sagacity and adroitness. A knife sharpener in a dream also represents sobriety, a dignified bearing of adversities, or he could represent a vile person, a trouble maker, or a decisive person.

Frying meat or eggs or fish, etcetera in a dream means separation or turning away from someone or something. It also means satisfying one's needs, attaining one's goal or identifying it. Frying in a dream represents the skill of cultivating one's personal entitlements, or it could mean the home returning of a long awaited traveller or the release of a prisoner. Frying something with sugar in a dream represents a profitable business partnership. (Also see Deep frying)

• Dreaming of having become a wizard: The dreamer will never, ever succeed in anything, in view of the Quranic verse: “… Lo! that which they have made is but a wizard’s artifice, and a wizard shall not be successful to whatever point 
(of skill) he may attain.”  (“Ta-Ha,” verse 69.)

• Dreaming that one is bewitched or under an evil spell: Plots and vexations, especially if the magician is a genie.

• Practicing witchcraft or being the victim of sorcery: The dreamer will bring about the separation of a couple through calumny and criminal acts.

• Trying sorcery without achieving success: The dreamer is trying to vex somebody, but will fail. The reverse is also true.

• Taking the shroud of a dead person:  (1) For a virtuous or pious being: The dreamer will specialize in an exotic and very delicate science or craft 
(or technology in modern times) or will achieve gains by unholy means.  (2) For a debauchee: He has very little if not no religion at all, is affecting people’s minds, and indulges in peeping, sneaking, reporting, and violating people’s secrecy.

• Separating winding sheets: The dreamer is a benefactor.

• Asking for a shroud but failing to find one: Bad omen.

• Something enshrouded being given to the dreamer: Benefits.

• Collecting a large number of shrouds: The dreamer is learning various sciences and skills.