Hell-fire
Entering hellfire in a dream signifies committing grave sins such as murder or adultery. Emerging from it unharmed points to severe worldly trials. Seeing the fire of hell drawing near indicates hardships, debts, penalties, losses, and troubles from which escape is difficult. Entering hellfire while holding an unsheathed sword means speaking ill of others and committing vile acts against oneself, and the same applies if one enters it smiling. Finding oneself imprisoned in hell without knowing when it began signifies restriction, poverty, deprivation, and neglect of prayer, fasting, or remembrance of the Lord. Walking over burning coals means transgressing people’s rights. Eating the food of hell signifies tyranny and bloodthirstiness. Being inside hell with darkened eyes and a blackened face indicates befriending the enemies of God and consenting to their deceit, leading to humiliation in this world and punishment in the hereafter. Seeing hell warns against provoking the wrath of rulers and signifies notoriety, moral corruption, heedlessness, and indulgence in forbidden acts, where even knowledge brings harm. Hell also represents loss of status, poverty after wealth, despair after comfort, unlawful earnings, arrogance, and punishment that may appear as illness ending in a shocking death, employment in the service of a tyrant, corrupt religious innovation, or the birth of a child of adultery. In general, hell signifies overwhelming lust, slaughterhouses, bathhouses, ovens, false beliefs, denial of truth, miserliness, rejection of the Day of Judgment, alliance with devils, joining evildoers, and denying God’s sovereignty. Seeing Malik, the guardian angel of hell, signifies guidance after negligence; his approach means salvation and restored faith, while his turning away indicates actions leading to hellfire. The angels who punish sinners represent authority figures, soldiers, or tax collectors. Entering hellfire and then leaving it signifies, by God’s will, a final outcome in paradise. Seeing one’s limbs reproach oneself means the body is admonishing and awakening the conscience to the realities of the hereafter and the Day of Reckoning. (Also see Bathhouse, Fire, Malik, Mental hospital)