Angels
(Celestial beings, Heavenly beings) If one sees the heavenly angels (arb. Malii'ika) coming before him to congratulate him in a dream, it means that God Almighty has forgiven that person his sins and endowed him with patience, through which he will attain success in this life and in the hereafter. If one sees the heavenly angels greeting him or giving him something in the dream, it means that his insight will grow. or that he may be martyred. If one sees angels descending upon a locality that is raging with a war in a dream, it means that the dwellers of that place will achieve victory. If the people are suffering from adversities, it means that their calamities will be lifted. Flying with angels or visiting the heavens in their company in a dream may mean that one will die in the station of a martyr and receive God's utmost blessings. If one feels scared of the angels in his dream, it means that a fight, an argument, or awesome trials will befall that locality. In general, to see the angels descending from the heavens to the earth in a dream means enfeeblement of those who have doubt, and strength for those who have faith and certitude. If one sees the angels prostrating to him in a dream, it means that all his needs will be satisfied, and he will be endowed with good conduct, good behaviour, and a blessed fame. If one sees them looking like women in the dream, it means that he lies before God Almighty. If a pious person sees an angel telling him in a dream, "Read God's Book." It means that one will attain happiness in their life. If an impious person sees an angel in a dream telling him, "Read your records." It means that he may go astray. If one sees the angels giving him glad tidings and congratulating him in a dream, it means that he will beget a blessed son who will grow to be righteous and an example to be followed. If one sees a gathering of angels in a town in his dream, it means that a pious man, or an ascetic, or a great scholar will die in that locality. If one sees himself looking at the angels in the skies in a dream, it means that he may suffer the loss of a son or his wealth. Seeing the celestial angels (arb. Ruhaniyyeen) in a dream means gaining honour, dignity, blessings in one's life, profits, and a good fame, developing spiritual inner insight, or becoming a business manager. Near the end of one's life, one who sees such a dream will also suffer from people's slander and backbiting. He will also lose his good reputation to people's envy and evil qualities, and he will live in tight financial conditions. If one becomes an angel in a dream, it means that he will receive honour, power, overcome his adversities, dispel his distress, and win his freedom, or it could mean that he will rise in station. If one sees the angels greeting him and shaking hands with him in a dream, it means that God Almighty will endow him with wisdom, clarity, and insight. Angels in a dream also represent one's closest witnesses, guardians, police officers, or the emissaries of a ruler. Wrestling with an angel in a dream means loss of status. Wrestling with an angel in a dream also means suffering from distress, trouble, humiliation, and falling in rank. Seeing angels entering one's house in a dream means that a thief will burglarize such a house. If angels disarm someone in a dream, it means that he will lose his wealth and strength, or that he may divorce his wife. If angels offer the person a tray of fruits in a dream, it means that he will depart from this world as a martyr. If angels curse someone in a dream, it means that he has little care for his religion. If one sees a gathering of heavenly angels together with the angels of hellfire in a dream, it means enmity and divisiveness. If a sick person sees himself struggling with an angel in a dream, it is a sign of his death. If one sees an angel taking the form of a child in a dream, it represents one's future. If he sees an angel as a youth, the youth then represents the present time and whatever events will take place during it. If the angel appears in the form of an old man in the dream, he represents the past. If one sees the angels praying and asking for God's forgiveness on his behalf in a dream, it means that one's spiritual and religious life will grow for the better, and that he will become wealthy. If one sees angels descending upon a cemetery in a dream, it signifies the presence of blessed and righteous souls in that place. If one sees angels walking in the markets in a dream, it means that the merchants are trifling with prices and playing with the measures. If the angels who are in charge of punishing the sinner in hell walk before a dying person and he does not fear them in the dream, it means peace and tranquillity. If one sees the angels teaching a dying person how to recite his final rites in a dream, it means glad tidings and attainment of what his heart desires, a guarantee of his safety, happiness, joy, and of having a blessed and good heart. If he sees them angry with him or beating him or subduing and taming him in a dream, it means that he may revert to sin, earn the displeasure of his parents, disdain for complying with God's commands, or he could even come to deny the necessity of God's religion. Such angels in a dream also represent the emissaries of a governor or his deputies. If a dying person is told in a dream that no angels have come to see him, then it is a testimony of his good character and piety, or it could mean payment of one's debts or recovery from an illness. Angels in a dream also could represent scholars, gnostics, or translators who understand people's languages and speak in many tongues. As for Munkar and Nakir, the angels who come to one's grave upon his burial to question him, seeing them in a dream means prosperity for a poor person, and finding work for a jobless person. (Also see Castration)