Islamic Interpretation
Seeing a fireplace or an iron cast stove in a dream symbolizes a woman of strength and status, often one who comes from a powerful and influential family. If the fireplace is made of yellow copper or brass, it indicates a woman from a wealthy, worldly, and affluent household. A wooden fireplace represents hypocrisy or outward display without inner sincerity within such a family. If the fireplace is made of plaster, it signifies association with tyrannical or Pharaonic customs, arrogance, or false forms of devotion. When the fireplace is built of argillite or sun-dried bricks, it points to the presence of a god-fearing, righteous, and pious person within that household. A fireplace in a dream may also symbolize authority, the state, government, unemployment, or fleeing from an enemy, depending on the surrounding circumstances. If the fireplace or stove is lit but no food is being cooked and no water is boiling, it suggests anger and agitation on the part of the head of the household, a servant, or caretaker, often due to slander or backbiting. If the cooking pot in the dream represents the wife, then the fireplace represents her husband, who bears the burdens, hardships, and struggles of life. Conversely, if the fireplace represents the wife, then the cooking pot symbolizes the husband, who is constantly exposed to pressure and trials. An unlit fireplace indicates worry, distress, and difficulty, while a burning fireplace signifies fulfillment of needs, productive effort, and earning a livelihood through toil and perseverance. The fireplace may also represent one’s spouse, tools and means of work, vehicle, social status, seat of authority, a place of gathering, illumination, or support. It can symbolize parents, a pregnant woman, childbirth, one’s shop, a helper, or even a position of rank. It may also point to the winter season or the month of January. For an unmarried person, seeing a fireplace foretells marriage; for a married person, it indicates pregnancy. If the dreamer is sinful, it signifies repentance and return to guidance, for fire in dreams represents fear, warning, and enlightenment. A fireplace may also symbolize the stomach, while firewood represents a heavy late-night meal that may cause indigestion or confused and disturbing dreams.(Also see Brazier, Firewood)