Islamic Interpretation
A person who applies gold leaf in a dream symbolizes an embellisher, one who renders things appealing and agreeable, or someone who coats surfaces with sweetness. Broadly, such a figure represents an individual who is sincere in both speech and deed. However, if this gilder covers a book's binding with gold in the dream, it indicates falsehood, the distortion of facts, introducing novel and unwarranted ideas, and signifies a negligent person who squanders wealth in reprehensible pastimes, depravity, or it may suggest employment within a religious establishment.