Islamic Interpretation
In a dream, a beard for a man represents riches, respect, and high status. When it appears suitably long or neatly groomed, it indicates gaining admiration, advancement in position, affluence, attractiveness, and authority. If the sides alone are lengthy while the center remains short, it suggests labouring to set aside funds for another person. An overly extended beard without care points to debts, anxiety, and bouts of low spirits. Should it grow so long that it touches the ground, the vision foretells death. A thick and lengthy beard signifies extended lifespan or greater prosperity. Reaching to the stomach implies disobedience to divine orders. Growing beyond one's grasp means living off interest from lending. A black beard denotes success and contentment. A greenish-black shade suggests prolonged riches, influence, and leadership, except for a tyrant, as Pharaoh's beard held that hue. Yellow colouring indicates destitution and ailment. Blondish tones point to fright. Grasping one's beard so that hairs fall into the hand, then retaining them, means suffering monetary setbacks followed by recovery, unless the hairs are thrown away. Pulling hair from another's beard foretells receiving his legacy. A young boy before puberty with a beard signals his passing. Sparse initial growth on such a boy means he will mature into a leader of others. A thin beard making one appear foolish signifies settling obligations, relief from worries, or ending hardships. A childish or underdeveloped beard indicates decline in people's esteem. Golden colouring suggests partial loss of honour and possibly half one's fortune. Half the beard shaved points to neediness. An unfamiliar youth shaving it means harm to reputation from a rival or namesake. An elderly man doing so indicates damage to good name by a greedy foe. Beard cut off reflects losses proportional to the trimming. Trimming excess beyond a fist's length means fulfilling zakat obligations. Severing another's beard signifies cheating him of inheritance. White beard denotes prestige and favourable repute. Beard turning grey with some black remaining means regaining respect. Fully grey implies impoverishment and diminished honour. A wife with a beard suggests rising wealth, expansion in her son's affairs, her illness, or inability to bear more children; if she has a son, he will dominate the household. For a woman, growing a beard means widowhood followed by marriage to a diligent and suitable man. A pregnant woman seeing this foretells bearing a male child; amid conflict, it means victory and upholding her honour bravely. Plucking beard hairs indicates squandering funds. Shaved head and beard together signify recovery from sickness, clearing debts, or banishing grief. An unusually long beard spun into fabric and sold means fabricating evidence. Trimming the beard also suggests financial decline. Beard represents one's work, trade, attire, profits, and setbacks. Biting off beard hairs with teeth points to pain and adversity. Oath by beard's honour reflects truth or falsehood, miserliness or open-handedness. For a farmer, black beard hairs mean time to reap crops. White may indicate weakness or old age. Grey beard in reality turning black in dream signifies vigour, resolve, steadfastness, assurance, vitality, and enthusiasm. Longer than usual suggests extravagance, squandering, indulgence in games of chance, or distress from situations. A wrongdoer growing one means repentance; a lost soul means finding direction. Woman sprouting beard implies striving for masculinity, defiance, or wrongdoing. Child with beard points to long life. Caressing or kissing a beard, own or another's, indicates weak resolve. Straw clinging to it means facing harsh words. Shaving half signifies reduced livelihood or dignity. Gripping uncle's beard means wrongful inheritance. Woman with manly beard, unless red-haired naturally, means childlessness; red beard for man suggests afflictions, allure, especially with grey mixed. (Also see Face, Scissors, Shaving, Twisting a rope)