Letter "E" — 78 interpretations

Category: Animals

The eagle is considered the sovereign among birds. Wrestling with an eagle in a vision signifies hardship, the wrath of a superior, or oppression under a tyrant. Possessing a tame and obedient eagle denotes wealth, honor, and authority. Owning and flying an eagle oneself suggests one will become an oppressive ruler. Being scratched by an eagle foretells illness. A slain eagle signifies the demise of a ruler. For a pregnant woman to see an eagle, it represents meeting a midwife or a nurse. The eagle can also symbolize a mighty ruler, a prophet, or a righteous person. Hearing its cry portends a fright. Consuming eagle meat or acquiring its feathers means receiving money from a person in power. If an eagle seizes someone and carries him horizontally through the sky, it signifies a journey. If the flight is vertical, it points to death. In a dream, an eagle may also represent a long life, prosperity, introducing religious innovation, or negligence. (Refer also to the entry for Vulture.)

Category: Human Body

In a dream the ear stands for one’s power to hear, the seat of alertness, personal rank, offspring, wealth, or repute. It also embodies knowledge, intellect, the creed, the breadth of riches, or pride in ancestry. Should hearing grow sharper or more acute, or if the sleeper senses sound entering his ears, the vision points to right guidance, submission to the Creator, and acceptance of His decree. Finding the ears shrunken or emitting a foul odour warns of deviation and deeds that draw divine anger. Discovering a third ear grants consent to carry out one’s plan. Counting ears may refer to branches of learning, yet it can also expose lack of steadiness. The ear may mirror the jewels a woman pins upon herself. Stuffing fingers into one’s ears signals death while sunk in reprehensible innovation, or choosing to shut out an abhorrent notion; it may further indicate becoming a counsellor or a mosque caller who summons to prayer. Ears changed into those of an animal show loss of esteem, growing rudeness, or indifference. As the vessel of awareness the ear can picture a pouch, purse, chest, or strongbox. Ears may further forecast separation from wife or daughter; half an ear portends the wife’s death, while deafness threatens the loss of faith. Oversized ears reveal avoidance of truth, whereas wings sprouting from them foreshadows loss of sight. Consuming the wax gathered within hints at violating the innocent. If grass sprouts over the body yet leaves ears and eyes uncovered, prosperity is approaching. (Also see Body, Earwax)

Category: Objects

For a woman, pearl earrings or a necklace in a dream denote a present from her husband; silver ones indicate bodily weakness, while beads foretell disappointment by companions. Seeing one’s spouse adorned with earrings promises profitable enterprise. A man who finds himself wearing handsome pearl-set earrings will enjoy affluence, ease, and luxury, or may commit the Holy Qur’an to memory. Should a woman don silver earrings she will bear a dutiful son; pearls in the same setting mean the child will charm others with song. An unmarried girl wearing earrings forecasts marriage. A child thus adorned appears beautiful, yet the image is blameworthy for an adult male, hinting at vile and shameful conduct. Earrings also confer elevating knowledge that raises status, awaken musical talent, or suggest a pleasant outing. (Also see Gold, Ornaments)

Category: Earth

(The element of earth, Soil) In a dream, the earth represents humanity, as they are fashioned from it. It also signifies livestock, animals, or the temporal world. Dirt symbolizes wealth, though it may also indicate neediness. Excavating earth means preparing a grave for an ailing person. Such digging can also denote a voyage, with the gathered soil representing the journey's gains. If interpreted as seeking marriage, the earth itself signifies the prospective bride. Generally, digging into the earth is inauspicious, as it uncovers what is concealed. The soil represents a woman's possessions. Brushing dust from one's hands foretells commercial loss, impoverishment, and disgrace, or it may indicate returning savings to their proper owners. Treading upon dirt means asking for money. Gathering dirt means hoarding money. Sweeping dirt within one's home signifies defrauding one's wife of funds. The earth also symbolizes human longevity. If one sees his wife carrying a sack of soil, it suggests a questionable pregnancy. Earth further embodies the fundamental elements of nature—fire, water, air, and ether. Rubbing one's face with dirt signifies giving undue praise to others or causing self-disappointment. Earth also denotes the fulfillment of needs or promises, as ink is derived from its components. If a merchant sees his goods blanketed in dirt, it signals a trade depression and difficulty selling his wares.

Category: Earth

(Country, Farm, Ground, Globe, Land, Locality, Place, Property) In a dream, every locale carries a specific meaning tied to its essence and state. Seeing the land of the great assembly on the Day of Resurrection signifies the keeping of a promise or that the dreamer is fit to guard secrets. Earth can also mean attaining wealth after poverty, or peace after great tribulation. It may herald marriage to a beautiful young maiden, or signify receiving guidance and achieving a lofty, honorable worldly station. Observing the globe borne on the back of a whale or an ox, unchanged, foretells the deposition of a country's ruler, who will either abdicate or be supplanted by his minister. Sweeping and tending to a floor mat or carpet symbolizes caring for one's community or household. Earth also represents one's mother or the land's governor. Activities in a farmland—its tools, elements, seeds, watering, plowing, harvesting, landscaping, the blossoming and scent of flowers, any light or result seen therein—all mirror corresponding success or failure in waking life. An unknown land may symbolize one's mother, child, spouse, partner, guardian, servant, or heirs. Earth can also denote disputes, knowledge, or eloquence. It signifies the worldly element, while the sky represents the hereafter. Seeing both simultaneously underscores their eternal separation, as this world and the next cannot coexist. Cracks in the topsoil indicate fertile, arable land, but also the emergence of heretical doctrines and the spread of evil and innovation. Viewing the land's expanse means the freeing of prisoners or, for a pregnant woman, her delivery approaching. An earthquake causing destruction signifies deviation from the right path, arrogance, and negligence. If the earth seems to fold over one, it means a fall in worldly status, divorce, or business failure. Earth turning to iron or rock suggests a wife's barrenness, or a change in one's trade or profession. Being swallowed by the earth denotes shame for an action, or obstacles in business, a journey, or imprisonment. Earth appearing as a desert foretells an urgent trip. Striking the ground with a stick means embarking on a business journey. Eating dirt equates to earning money equal to the amount consumed. If the earth cracks open and a beast emerges speaking human language, it portends a bewildering miracle or event for all to witness, or the approach of life's end. Digging the earth can also mean scheming and deceiving others. If the earth speaks kindly to someone, he will attain what it says. If it rebukes him, he must correct his conduct and seek God's forgiveness and guidance.

Category: Objects

In a dream, an earthenware pot signifies a neighbor who shares generously. It may also symbolize a modest woman along with her household, property, and children. If the pot is brass or ceramic, it can point to a woman of limited means. Such a pot may also denote making sound judgments, protecting one’s private matters, or representing a woman who suffers repeated miscarriages. (Also see Earthenware jar, Jar, Pot)

Category: Earth

In a dream, an earthquake reflects fear of ruling powers or those whose command one cannot resist. It may also point to sweeping changes in a region, or a trial that overtakes a community or land. If one sees mountains trembling, breaking apart, then returning to how they were, it signals a momentous event that will shake that place. Should the ground heave or split open and swallow part of the population while sparing others, it suggests turmoil marked by injustice, civil unrest, or a spreading illness. If the earth quakes and the sky seems torn, it indicates heavy losses touching property, livestock, fields, and institutions as a consequence of people’s wrongdoing. Feeling the ground move beneath one’s feet relates to one’s struggles to secure livelihood or manage business matters. An earthquake can further represent the revealing of secrets, disturbing news, general fear, public chaos, or the emergence of new ailments. If walls collapse in the dream, it signifies the dreamer’s death. When such shaking occurs on farmland, it implies fertility and a plentiful yield. An earthquake may also be interpreted as travel, dancing, disrupted commerce, or arguments within the family. If urban buildings suffer damage, it foretells increased work and profit for builders and craftspeople. Should a fruit orchard be struck, it again suggests a strong harvest. If the quake happens in May, it warns of fierce clashes and widespread disorder; in June, it signals the downfall of harmful trades and their practitioners. If it occurs during the day, it indicates that people of knowledge will be elevated to positions of leadership. A quake in July means a prominent individual will die in that area. In August, it signals an enemy’s assault. In September, it foretells the arrival of a stranger followed by severe plague and hardship. If it takes place in October, it suggests common illness, protection for pregnant women, and stable or falling prices. A quake in November hints at frequent miscarriages. In December, it denotes grave afflictions, epidemics, and death, though not from invading forces. If it happens in January, it points to the deaths of the young. In February, it implies famine and miscarriages. In March, it symbolizes prosperity and abundant crops. For a pregnant woman, seeing an earthquake means she is nearing childbirth. (Also see Cave in, Destruction, Earth, Thunder, Tremor)

Category: Animals

Seeing an earthworm in a dream points to confronting an opponent who lacks real strength. (Also see Rainworm)

Category: Human Body

(Auditory meatus, Cerumen) Cleaning the yellowish wax from one’s ear, or removing it from another’s ear in a dream, suggests gaining a needed remedy, acquiring a useful substance, or escaping the schemes of jealous people. Clearing the ears of wax or dirt also signals the arrival of pleasant news. Eating the wax taken from one’s own ears indicates immoral attraction toward children. Removing earwax in a dream likewise means hearing something joyful. (Also see Ear)

Category: Animals

(Beetle, Insect, Worm) A small pincer-bearing insect said in folklore to crawl toward the human ear. In a dream, an earwig symbolizes an adversary of those in leadership.

Category: Action

To overhear others in a dream signifies slander and falsehood. The eavesdropper may find himself disliked by rulers or superiors. If one unintentionally hears a conversation and he is a merchant, it means stepping down from managing his business; if he is a ruler, it means dismissal from office. Deliberately listening to another person implies wishing to expose or shame him. Listening to words and choosing their good direction brings glad tidings, while hearing wise counsel yet ignoring it in the dream points to habitual lying.

Category: Trees

An ebony tree in a dream signifies a wealthy woman from India or a prosperous and powerful man.

Category: Celestial Bodies

Witnessing a solar eclipse in a dream indicates a disaster awaiting the head of the state, whereas a lunar eclipse points to a misfortune that will strike the chief minister. Some interpreters add that a solar eclipse may also foretell the passing of the dreamer’s spouse or his mother. Should a cloud veil the solar radiance in the vision, it foreshadows an illness afflicting the country’s ruler or the regional governor. If the sleeper sees the sun travelling above the clouds yet unable to break through them, it is believed to signal his own demise. Within the dream realm, the sun can embody a distinguished scholar, while a cloud obstructing its light may symbolise the downfall of a tyrannical leader. (See also Moon, Sun)

Category: Types of People

In the landscape of a dream, an educator or teacher may stand for the dreamer himself, or for the head of a school, a paragon, a mainstay, a spiritual guide, a warden, one’s child, or one’s mother. Such a figure may also appear as a sports coach or an animal tamer. To perceive oneself teaching in a dream suggests progress in one’s vocation. A mathematics instructor symbolises intellect and discernment, while performing arithmetic—adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing—mirrors the everyday gains and losses of life. A Qur’an tutor denotes melody, dignity, or unexpected kindness. An unfamiliar teacher within the dream is taken as a sign of the Almighty. (See also Teacher)

Category: Types of People

Should the dreamer behold himself behaving in an effeminate fashion, the vision warns of evil, anxiety, dread, or an approaching disaster. If an effeminate man discovers he possesses a vagina in the dream, it implies duplicity or contentment with being both knowledgeable and deceitful. When such a person examines his male organ and finds no female counterpart beside it, the dream forecasts sincere repentance and abandonment of detested habits, returning to innate disposition. Should an effeminate or bisexual man see himself endowed with a vagina, or if he gazes at his penis, the dream portends estrangement from his wife, mother, or close companions. (See also Sexual intercourse, Vagina)

Category: Action

Striving earnestly toward a virtuous aim within a dream signals the attainment of one’s objectives. (See also Grandfather)

Category: Food

When eggplants appear in their proper season, the vision promises income gained without great toil; off-season specimens foreshadow unpleasantness and aversion. Consuming an eggplant predicts falling market prices. The vegetable also embodies haughtiness, self-praise, treachery, deceitfulness, and a person who wears many masks. For those who fish, eggplants seen in sleep announce a plentiful haul, delight, and victory.

Category: Food

Eggs stand for thriving fortune or dread of exhausting wealth. For the single they herald wedlock; for the married they point to offspring. Should a dreamer’s hen deposit eggs, a household birth is near. A boiled egg eaten signals easy living and lawful money, whereas swallowing it raw hints at forbidden profit, adultery, or hardship. Watching one’s wife lay an egg forecasts a child short in belief. A broken egg warns the newborn will perish soon. Tending hens for eggs and seeing them hatch revives stalled matters with fresh success, and each chick may equal a God-fearing descendant; every cracked shell can mark one. A basketful also hints at a gathering of kin. (See also Boiled eggs, Omelet)

Category: Types of People

Encountering an unfamiliar elderly person in a dream signifies one's fortune, joy, and persistent effort. Should this aged figure appear robust, he reflects the dreamer's own strength; if frail, he mirrors a state of weakness. Whatever physical attributes or condition the elder exhibits will correspond to the dreamer's own situation. An elderly person approaching the dreamer indicates that aid will come to help him achieve an honorable position. Following such a figure means walking a righteous path. Displeasing an elder in the dream signifies offending a close companion or rejecting sound counsel. Pleasing him denotes agreement with a virtuous friend, leading to joint material and spiritual advancement. Seeing a gathering of amiable people of indeterminate age points to discovering new opportunities in life from which both worldly and spiritual benefits will flow. A gathering of unfamiliar young people suggests association with wealthy individuals, while a gathering of unfamiliar elders means keeping company with good friends. For a woman, an unrecognized elderly man represents the world. A young man seeing himself transformed into an elder signifies gaining knowledge and wisdom. Hearing a handsome elderly person speak means receiving honor and high rank. An elderly person seeing himself become young again indicates vitality, wealth, good living, and health, though it may also signify material or religious losses, or even his death. An elder seeing himself reborn portends his passing; if he is ill, it shows his clinging to worldly life; if poor, it denotes his earnings. An elder envisioning himself as a youth may also point to committing a foolish or childish act. A wise elder in a dream embodies honor, status, dignity, prosperity, blessings, and long life. Conversely, seeing an elderly person can also symbolize failure, frailty, defeat, incapacity, or inactivity. (Refer also to the entry for Grey hair.)

Category: Types of People

Seeing elders in a dream, such as the honored seniors of a town, city councillors, tribal leaders, or venerable sheikhs, signifies success, elevation in status, and the arrival of glad tidings, indicating guidance, wisdom, and divine support, as well as favorable outcomes in one’s affairs, respect from others, and the fulfillment of hopes through sound counsel and righteous leadership.

Category: Food

Seeing or tasting an electuary in a dream, such as licking a medicinal paste made with honey or syrup or applying a healing ointment, signifies relief from illness, restoration of strength, and renewal of well-being, and it may also indicate being granted many righteous and beneficial children, symbolizing sweetness in life, lawful sustenance, divine mercy, and the healing of both physical and spiritual conditions.

Category: Mood

Elegance in a dream, such as appearing refined, handsome, cultured, or outwardly sophisticated, may point to trials and inner burdens hidden behind a pleasing appearance, including hardship, envy, slander, or unjust accusations, and it can also signify separation or a long absence, yet in another sense it may herald full release, freedom from constraints, or a turning point where dignity and grace lead to ultimate relief and deliverance.

Category: Animals

(Pride) In a dream, an elephant denotes a formidable and respected adversary who is slow-minded, bears heavy responsibilities, and is skilled in warfare. It also symbolizes arrogance. Mounting or directing an elephant indicates forming a connection with a ruler or politician and profiting from that association. It further signifies a long and prosperous life. Riding an elephant by night foretells a promotion; if one is qualified for leadership, he will attain it but then engage in a conflict he will lose. Riding an elephant by day suggests divorce, treachery, betrayal, or deception. Milking an elephant or removing something from its trunk means either extorting or lawfully receiving money from a powerful figure. Some interpreters say the elephant represents a mighty king who is gracious, generous, patient, and tender-hearted. Being struck by an elephant's trunk signifies receiving benefits from such a person, inheriting from him, gaining a political post, or acquiring wealth through high-level connections. The elephant can also symbolize righteous individuals, scholars, and nobles. It may also denote hardships, labor, and subsequent relief from difficulties. Seeing but failing to ride an elephant indicates a lack of integrity or business losses. A dead elephant signifies the death of the ruler or a great person of that region, or the killing of a noble. Seeing an elephant outside its native land foretells adversities. Confronting a threatening elephant means illness. Being trampled under an elephant's feet portends death. Speaking to an elephant means receiving a valuable gift from an authority figure. Fleeing in fear from an elephant signifies persecution by someone in power. Riding an elephant into war means defeat and ruin. Consuming elephant meat represents acquiring money. For worldly people, seeing an elephant brings benefits; for the pious and religious, it brings trials. Riding an elephant may also indicate falsehood or oppression. An elephant entering a foreign land symbolizes an official visit by a king or president to another country, or an invasion.

Category: Other

An elephant appearing in a dream signifies a chronic and burdensome illness that brings swelling and heaviness to parts of the body, especially the legs or private areas, reflecting prolonged suffering and physical strain, and seeing a person afflicted with elephantiasis symbolizes excessive attachment to worldly life, indulgence in material desires, and the pursuit of gain through unlawful, corrupt, or misguided means, indicating moral distortion, spiritual heaviness, and the consequences of clinging to what distracts from righteousness.

Category: Types of People

An elephant trainer in a dream represents a respected mentor entrusted with shaping strong and influential individuals, such as an educator of children from noble families, a master horse trainer, a coach who disciplines athletes, or a knowledgeable translator who bridges languages and cultures, symbolizing authority combined with wisdom, patience, and skill, and indicating guidance, refinement of character, and the ability to manage great power through knowledge, training, and disciplined instruction. (See also Elephant)

Category: Earth

A rise in height or position in a dream may symbolize one's wife. (See also the entry for Hill.)

Category: Jinn

(Abnormal being, Albino, Leprous being, Whitish creature) An elf in a dream represents a person of wicked character who sows discord and hostility among people through gossip, insinuation, slander, and by advising against good deeds. It also signifies poverty, grief, humiliation, or calamities caused by those who habitually wander between towns and cities. If an elf visits a sick person in a dream, it means death.

Category: Feelings

(Articulateness, Fluency) Possessing clear and persuasive speech in a dream signifies being honored, dignified, becoming a leader, or receiving immense wealth. It may also denote an expansion of one's influence and control, business prosperity, fame, or achieving mastery in one's craft or profession. Generally, eloquence in speech within a dream points to honor and a position of trust or representation.

Category: Action

(Accolade, Hug) Embracing someone in a dream signifies a long life. Embracing a deceased person also denotes longevity. If a deceased person embraces the dreamer and does not release him, it foretells the dreamer's death. Embracing a known person indicates forming an association with him. Embracing an enemy means making peace. Some interpreters say an embrace signifies exchanging compliments. An embrace can also denote kindness, mutual affection, travel, returning from a journey, or the relief of worry and anxiety. An embrace is likewise interpreted as sexual intercourse. Embracing a woman signifies love for the worldly life and despair of reward in the hereafter. Embracing a man means offering him support and aid. Embracing the trunk of a tree indicates engaging in hypocrisy. Embracing someone and resting one's head in his lap means entrusting him with one's capital or working in his service. (See also the entries for Envelope and Hug.)

Category: Action

An embroiderer in a dream represents a clever and witty person, a deceiver, or one who adorns his speech and exaggerates in his explanations. He may also symbolize a writer, a man of letters, a refined person, a poet, or a skilled singer. (Refer also to the entry for Monogram.)

Category: Objects

Seeing an emerald in a dream signifies martyrdom or the blessings prepared for a believer in Paradise. Purchasing an emerald means gaining a beloved brother, joining a group of righteous companions on the path, raising virtuous children, acquiring beneficial knowledge, or earning lawful income.

Category: Feelings

In a dream, emptiness represents the dwellings of a stranger or foreigner. It may also signify breaking a covenant, betrayal, the death of a sick person, rest after exhaustion, or peace following confusion. (See also the entry for Deserted.)

Category: Action

Performing the rites of ablution or the dry purification ritual (tayammum) without water in a dream signifies that the resolution to one's difficulties is drawing near. (Refer also to the entry for Tayammum.)

Category: Types of People

(Coating, Glazier, Vanity) In a dream, an enamellist or glazier represents a person who is self-satisfied, arrogant, and deludes himself regarding his importance, wealth, and accomplishments. He may also denote someone who associates with foolish people and confides in them.

Category: Feelings

(Love, Poverty) Seeing oneself consumed with passion for someone in a dream signifies distress, calamities, blindness, deafness, or infamy, which may evoke pity from others. For an ill person, such a vision may mean his death. Fire in a dream can also symbolize love. Love in a dream further indicates negligence in religious duties. It may also herald financial losses, the death of a child, divorce, the passing of friends, hunger, journeys, sickness, or dangers. Being enamoured with God denotes deep devotion and certainty. Feigning love in a dream signifies straying from God's path. If one finally reaches or unites with the beloved in the dream, it means adversities may befall him or affect the object of his affection. (See also the entry for Love.)

Category: Objects

(Alms, Charity, Contribution, Donation, Fulfilling needs, Gift, Offering, Profits, Religious trust) Establishing a religious endowment (waqf) in a dream represents righteous deeds performed solely for God's pleasure, seeking closeness to Him, and asking for His blessings. It also signifies elevation in status, both in this life and the next. If what is endowed is a house, a book, or money, it denotes repentance from sins, guidance to the straight path, or the blessing of a son. Offering a pig or wine as an endowment, however, signifies rising in worldly rank through injustice and causing harm to others.

Category: Types of People

Meeting an enemy in a dream signals dignity, reconciliation, overcoming disputes, divine support, and eventual triumph. Confronting one’s enemy may even signify forming friendship with him. If the enemy issues threats, it means the dreamer will prevail. Should the foe promise kindness, it warns of falling into his scheme and losing the contest. If the enemy offers counsel, it foretells betrayal. Seeing an enemy invade a land points to a ruinous flood. If he confides in or pleases the dreamer, it means hardships will soon touch him. Being seized for ransom by an enemy indicates sinking into sin and becoming captive to one’s own wrongdoing. (Also see Blessings, Enmity, Introduction p. xxii)

Category: Types of People

An engraver in a dream reflects knowledge and devotion to studying prophetic teachings. It may also symbolize deceit, trickery, or misleading others through dishonesty. A stone carver represents dealing with the uneducated; a copper engraver signifies quarrels and illness. A gold or silver engraver reflects sound judgment and proper placement of things. An engraver can also represent a worldly-minded person. If he works with fabrics, he symbolizes a reconciler. Seeing him may indicate spending one’s wealth supporting corrupt individuals or backing falsehood and hypocrisy. His customers represent those who prefer fleeting worldly gain over lasting spiritual reward. If he sells goods without accepting payment, it means he favors his spiritual life and thanks God. If he demands payment, the opposite is true. Trading his wares for wheat or flour shows renouncing materialism and gratitude for divine favor. An engraver may also represent a teacher of arts and sciences.

Category: Feelings

Showing hostility toward someone in a dream can mean wishing to remain close to him, acting friendly, then revealing his secrets or exposing his emotions. Facing another’s hostility suggests becoming his companion, for enmity in dreams often signals the uncovering of hidden matters. (Also see Enemy, Rupture of relations)

Category: Action

Entering another person’s home in a dream signifies overcoming him, gaining advantage in trade, or taking hold of his affairs. Entering the governor’s residence and feeling at ease suggests seeking his support in personal matters. The arrival of a just person in a home brings blessings; the entry of a tyrant signals harm and misfortune unless his visits are habitual, in which case no new danger arises. Entering a house built of unusual material and meeting known deceased souls indicates entering the realm of the dead. If one goes in and later emerges, it means approaching death followed by recovery from severe illness. Entering the Sacred House in Mecca represents returning to one’s home as a newlywed. (Also see Marketplace)

Category: Action

If one sees himself entering the blaze of hell in a dream, whether he is faithful or not, it signifies falling into fever, losing wealth, being confined, committing a grave offense, or mingling with corrupt and unbelieving people.

Category: Action

Seeing oneself enter the gardens of paradise in a dream brings the promise—by God’s will—of entering it in the hereafter. For a pilgrim, it means his pilgrimage is accepted or that he will reach the Sacred House in Mecca. If the dreamer lacks belief, it foretells embracing faith. For a bedridden believer, entering paradise indicates death from his illness; for a bedridden non-believer, it signals recovery. For the unmarried, it suggests marriage; for the poor, it means wealth or inheritance. If a sick person finds himself healthy in the next world within the dream, it shows he will arrive there free of worldly burdens and temptations. If he is not ill, entering the hereafter signifies good news, business success, pilgrimage, renouncing worldly excess, devotion, gaining knowledge, strengthening family ties, or patiently enduring trials linked to one’s sins. Entering the next world merely to look around—and if the dreamer is upright and knowledgeable—may imply unemployment or financial loss. If he fears something, faces accusations, or is under strain, such a vision signals relief from those concerns. Generally, entering the realms beyond suggests travel or migration, and returning from them in a dream points to returning home. Entering paradise specifically also denotes pilgrimage to Mecca.

Category: Types of People

Seeing an entertainer in a dream signifies frivolity, deception, and engagement in idle or misleading pursuits, and it represents a person who distracts others from serious matters, truth, and remembrance of God through amusement, false promises, or outward charm, warning of heedlessness, wasted time, moral weakness, and being drawn toward illusion, hypocrisy, or actions that bring temporary pleasure but lasting regret.

Category: Objects

Seeing an envelope in a dream signifies money, provisions, or a means of receiving benefit, and if the envelope is sealed it points to travel or a forthcoming journey, while in a broader sense it represents attaining one’s goals, overcoming obstacles, and receiving pleasing or reassuring news, and it may also symbolize a vessel that safeguards wealth, secrets, or knowledge entrusted to the dreamer.

Category: Human Body

Seeing a deadly epidemic spreading in a dream signifies the domination of tyranny and injustice, reflecting the rise of oppressive authority, harsh rule, or collective suffering, and it may point to imprisonment, restriction of freedom, fear spreading among people, or the onset of harmful and destructive events that bring hardship, loss, and widespread distress to a community.

Category: Action

Seeing oneself walking across hilltops on foot in a dream signifies an earnest attempt to escape danger or avert an approaching threat, and it reflects striving for safety, vigilance, and self-preservation, indicating a cautious effort to distance oneself from harm, trials, or oppressive circumstances through endurance, alertness, and reliance on one’s own resolve. (See also Escape from danger, Running away)

Category: Action

Slipping free from peril or surviving what seemed a deadly mishap in a dream signals steadfast faith, keen God-consciousness, observed fasts, given alms, and righteous acts. (See also Escape, Running away, Take a flight, Turning)

Category: Action

Seeing an escort in a dream signifies movement and transition, and it may represent travel, guidance, or accompaniment toward a destination, while also symbolizing professions linked to service or collection such as a barber or hairdresser, a tithe or debt collector, an envoy delivering messages, or a merchant engaged in trade, reflecting mediation, facilitation, and the management of people, goods, or obligations.

Category: Action

When the sleeper sees himself bound by the boundaries God set on human liberty, or pleads for such reckoning upon himself, the dream betokens settling debts, honouring personal limits, or entering marriage to shield chastity.

Category: Objects

In a dream, farmland symbolizes wealth and worldly benefit, for towns thrive on what such land produces. It may also stand for stored harvests, grains, fruits, or vegetables. Whatever befalls the farmland—drought, flooding, blight, or fire—will appear as hardship among the people of that region. Farmland can further represent one’s livelihood, a supportive and patient wife, or a diligent and enduring husband. Seeing it flourishing indicates blessing, expansion, and profit. It may also warn of wasting one’s life on trivial pursuits, heedlessness, discomfort, indulging in fleeting pleasures, or neglecting knowledge in favor of worldly distractions. (Also see Farm)

Category: Water

Drinking from the Euphrates in a dream brings blessings and divine favor, as it is counted among the rivers of paradise. It also suggests piety, satisfaction, and devotion. If the Euphrates appears dry, it foretells the death of a ruler, the collapse of a state, or the downfall of a chief minister or principal adviser. (Also see River)

Category: Feelings

To vanish or become non-existent in a dream points to sorrow, the voiding of currency in wartime, the cancellation of debts, a poor harvest, an epidemic, or calamity. For seekers on the spiritual path, however, non-existence in a dream signifies enduring existence in the divine sense. (Also see Disappearing)

Category: Types of People

(Mother of humanity, peace be upon her.) Dreaming of Eve signifies abundance, divine favor, fruitful yields, offspring, and financial gains from trades like weaving, agriculture, or metalwork. Witnessing Adam and Eve together suggests a fall from high status to a humble position, followed by restoration after sincere repentance. Eve's appearance may also warn of moral failings, vulnerability to envy and deceit, or disputes with neighbors. The vision of Adam and Eve can point to trials brought by family, marital intimacy, or remorse over past actions. For a woman, this dream cautions that inappropriate associations may strain her marriage and foretells significant hardship, recalling Eve's experience of menstruation and childbirth. It may indicate the burdens of pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Such a dream can also signify bearing both virtuous and wicked children. If the dreamer is separated from her spouse, it may predict reconciliation or earning lawful sustenance. Alternatively, it might suggest a descendant will commit homicide or achieve martyrdom. For a man, seeing Eve warns of female deception, over-reliance on a wife's counsel, or leadership loss due to heeding a woman's advice. Beholding Eve's radiant face represents one's mother, as she is the mother of all. If the dreamer is suffering, this vision promises deliverance.

Category: Days of the Week

(Dusk, Night's approach) In a dream, the evening symbolizes deception, falsehood, moral decay, and pride. It can also represent the act of glorifying God and engaging in His remembrance.

Category: Trees

(Cypress, Pine tree) Dreaming of an evergreen tree denotes a person of beauty whose deeds fail to match their words. It may also signify travel, descendants, a long life, or a benevolent son. (Also see Tree)

Category: Animals

(Female sheep) In dreams, a ewe symbolizes a woman, a spouse, or material well-being. Pursuing a ewe without success means failing to win a woman's favor. Milking a ewe forecasts a prosperous year. Consuming its meat suggests inheriting wealth from a woman. A ewe departing one's home indicates divorce or a wife's death. Its transformation into a ram signals barrenness. A pregnant ewe anticipates monetary gain. Arguing with a ewe reflects a quarrel with a female. Seeing a ewe may also portend grief, misfortunes, or the loss of a husband or employment. (Also see Ram, Sheep)

Category: Action

Affirming God's singular divinity and supreme authority in a dream indicates receiving monetary reparation for endured hardships. Pronouncing the declaration 'La ilaha ill Allah' (there is no deity but Allah) signifies that the dreamer will depart this life firmly established in faith. (Also see Exclamation of God's Sovereignty)

Category: Action

(Inspect, Feel) In a dream, the act of examining represents surveillance, listening covertly, or focusing on a discussion one ought to ignore.

Category: Feelings

(Fury, Provocation, Envy) Feeling intense exasperation without cause in a dream foretells an unexpected demise. Such agitation may also denote entanglement in disgrace or contracting a sickness that alters one's outlook on existence. If one dreams of being angered or provoked by another, it warns they will face outcomes from their own traits or incur financial loss. Feelings of exasperation, fury, or irritation in a dream universally point to destitution and monetary decline. (Also see Infuriating)

Category: Action

In a dream, declaring God's supreme power by saying 'La Hawla Wa La Quwwata Illa Billah' (There is no strength nor power except with Allah) signifies ongoing repentance in waking life and aspiration for deliverance. It also signifies overcoming one's adversaries. (Also see Exalting God's oneness)

Category: Human Body

(Ritual uncleanliness) If one's body expels an unusual amount of waste in a dream, it symbolizes the obstruction of intended journeys. Expelling solid feces indicates the dreamer does not allocate funds for illness. An abnormal discharge of liquid matter from the bowels warns of squandering the majority of one's wealth. Using a toilet near a recognized washing area suggests expenditures are driven by base appetites and indulgences. If the location is unfamiliar, it means one unknowingly yet willingly spends resources in forbidden ways, gaining no spiritual or worldly benefit. Defecating openly and covering it with soil represents concealing money in the ground. (Also see Impurity, Feces, Urinating)

Category: Types of People

(Tormentor) Seeing an executioner in a dream signifies a person who is rude and offensive. It may also represent an illness or symbolize the authority of legal judgment.

Category: Feelings

(Lassitude, Weariness, Debilitation) If one becomes too weary to continue speaking in a dream, or voluntarily ceases all discourse—good or bad—especially within a courtroom setting, it foretells abandoning one's defense and losing a legal dispute. This may also indicate falling into poverty and reliance on charity, or becoming without offspring.

Category: Action

(Display, Tribunal, Honor guard, Troop inspection, Military parade, Depiction, Demonstration, Reviewing officer, Presentation) Should one see himself standing before a senior officer during a guard inspection or military parade in a dream, the officer's displeasure warns of committing a grave transgression. If the officer appears satisfied, it signifies divine favor. This high-ranking officer symbolizes a benevolent figure who inquires after friends, aids in resolving difficulties, and offers consistent support. (Also see Hearing board, Inquisitional court)

Category: Action

(Disinter, Unbury) Unearthing a deceased person's body and finding them alive in the grave signifies following their tradition, acquiring their knowledge, wisdom, craft, or customs, and obtaining lawful wealth. Finding the body still dead indicates fruitless effort. A grave robber in a dream represents a calculated plan to uncover secrets or an organized quest for hidden treasure. Digging up the grave of a famed scholar means reviving their teachings, restoring their intellectual legacy, traditions, and esteemed status. (Also see Grave digger, Grave)

Category: Types of People

(Traveler, Migrant, Wanderer) In a dream, an explorer signifies a sociable woman from an affluent household. Encountering an explorer may also denote a marriage of convenience or a temporary union pursued for enjoyment. Furthermore, an explorer represents fatherless children or offspring born outside of wedlock.

Category: Action

Revealing one's concealed understanding in a dream signifies gaining access to inner wisdom and practicing a respected profession. If the dreamer is already a learned individual, it foretells new spiritual or material insights being unveiled to him, which will bring enrichment to his life.

Category: Action

(Banishment, Ejection, Ousting, Driving out, Removal, Exile, Deportation) Being expelled in a dream signifies confinement. It also demonstrates the authority of the one issuing the command and confirms the guilt of the subject. Exile from one's homeland suggests imprisonment. Being cast out from paradise indicates impending poverty. Forcibly removing, shouting at, or confusing a scholar in a dream warns of an unusual calamity and confrontation with a menacing, ruthless foe. If a devout, righteous-looking person is driven from a place, it reveals his failure to honor a religious pledge or his avoidance of the company of the truly pious, ascetics, scholars, and noble individuals. Expulsion in a dream may also reflect the poor conduct or misbehavior of the one doing the evicting.

Category: Action

Putting out a fire in a dream signifies suppressing an uprising, preventing a conflict, or eradicating a heretical practice. If one dreams of stifling flames that are already dead, it indicates an attempt to reignite an old feud or to sow discord among people.

Category: Action

(Crushing, Milling) Crushing or pressing nuts or seeds to obtain their oils or butter in a dream symbolizes wealth and abundance. Pressing ripe olives signifies one's native land. Extracting olive oil denotes easing of difficulties, triumph over trials, or represents genuine scholars. It may also signify fulfilling physical desires, committing misdeeds, attaining guidance, emerging from ignorance into clarity, or one's income and advantages. Pressing sesame seeds or walnuts indicates prosperity and increasing finances. Sesame oil represents a devout individual who counsels others to detach from worldly attachments and fleeting pleasures. Pressing sesame seeds also denotes a prosperous merchant. Extracting hazelnut compound signifies money earned through toil or wealth that multiplies. (Also see Juice, Oil press, Wine press)

Category: Human Body

(Ophthalmic ailment, Conjunctivitis) In a dream, inflammation of the eyes signifies a restriction in one's income or denotes negligence. Seeing one's own eyes inflamed suggests a parent may become ill. Eye inflammation also points to impending blindness or developing a cataract. Any loss of vision in a dream represents neglecting religious duties, financial loss, or reflects the condition of one's children.

Category: Human Body

They frame and adorn the eyes. For a man, eyebrows reflect his virtuous disposition, pleasing appearance, religiosity, faithfulness, trustworthiness, rank, and honor. In a dream, eyebrows also symbolize affection and harmony. If a woman sees her eyebrows as thick or meeting in the middle, it indicates she possesses good character. Eyebrows may also represent one's parents, siblings, companions, colleagues, or helpers. Should the eyebrows grow excessively and nearly obscure the eyes, it foretells changes regarding the aforementioned people. Eyebrows also signify a long life. They can indicate the state of one's spiritual condition: when shapely, faith is sound; when unruly, faith is declining. They may also denote one's protector, ruler, or resemble a bow launching arrows of love toward a beloved. (Also see Body)

Category: Tools

(Dropper) In a dream, a dropper represents settling one's obligations through periodic, partial payments.

Category: Human Body

If one dreams of plucking another person's eyelashes, it signifies an attempt to lead that person toward newly invented, deviant paths. (Also see Body)

Category: Human Body

Healthy eyelids in a dream, especially for a woman, herald favorable changes in her circumstances. Thin, inflamed, or sore eyelids denote troubles, pain, wrath, illness, or anxiety. Eyelids symbolize one's defenses and safeguards. They also represent one's instructor, siblings, relatives, spouse, offspring, treasury, covering, sentinels, intimate friend, or custodians. Eyelids can also signify something that is deliberately ignored. Inflamed eyelids indicate being enamored. If the eyes are understood to signify wealth, then the eyelids denote protection or the payment of obligatory charity. If the outer rim of the eyelid turns white, it warns of an ailment affecting the head, eyes, or ears. (Also see Body)

Category: Human Body

Eyes in a dream stand for one’s religion, spiritual insight, or material wealth. Grass sprouting all over the body yet leaving the eyes and ears uncovered signifies great prosperity. The eyes themselves symbolise faith and the path leading to success in both worlds. They may also indicate proper guidance or neglect of it. Possessing numerous eyes across the body reflects deep piety, constant watchfulness, and noble character. Seeing with the eyes of the heart means perceiving truth with perfect clarity. A sideways glance from another person warns of hardship, distrust, blame, suspicion, or contempt coming from him; if he then looks straight ahead, he will instead assist in one’s affairs or defend one’s interests. Eyes turning to iron foretell distress, disgrace, or severe affliction inflicted by one’s own people. Gazing lustfully at women denotes committing sin with the eyes and coveting what is forbidden. Liking someone’s eyes signals impending trouble, corruption of faith, or envy. An extra eye growing within the body reveals disbelief; one over the shoulder means receiving funds while absent. Fixed, staring eyes indicate suspicion toward a relative or another man’s wife. Black eyes represent a devout worshipper; bluish-black eyes show opposition to true religion; blue eyes point to innovation; green eyes suggest adherence to a faith foreign to Islam. Keen vision brings blessings; weak vision leads to unemployment and dependence on charity. A father seeing dimness in his sight foretells illness striking his children. Losing both eyes means the death of one’s children; for the poor or imprisoned, it signifies permanent darkness and loss of hope. An oppressed person with weak eyes will soon receive help; a traveller with the same vision will never return home. Eyes that belong to a stranger warn of oncoming blindness; if the person is known, the dreamer will marry his daughter. Eyes dropping into one’s lap announce the death of a brother or son. Human eyes also represent one’s beloved, child, or faith; any blemish upon them mirrors flaws in those matters. A hundred eyes equal money, while a ruler’s eyes are his spies. Treating the eyes with ointment signifies reforming one’s religious practice or fathering a son who will become the light of his father’s eyes. If a banished brother is mentioned, the dreamer will call him back and entrust him with family duties. Sight clearer than people imagine reveals hidden inner excellence; sight weaker than known, yet concealed, shows secret steadfastness in faith. Eyes turning pure white indicate grief or loss of a loved one; when the whiteness clears, the beloved returns and sorrow ends. The right eye symbolises the son, the left eye the daughter; a father whose eyes switch places must separate his children’s sleeping quarters. Eating an eye means appropriating another’s wealth. Eyes without lashes signify rebellion against divine law; plucking one’s own lashes exposes one to enemies. Beautiful eyes may warn of sorcery or black magic. Eyes further represent family, kin, children, or workers, mourning, illness, calamity, or divine punishment for sins. Guarding the eyes from unlawful sights means obedience to Allah’s commands. (See also Body)

Category: Prophets

Dreaming of the prophet Ezekiel (upon whom be peace) signifies that the dreamer will be granted a position of custodianship and responsibility.

Category: Prophets

(The prophet Uzair, upon whom be peace.) Seeing him in a dream foretells attaining a position of leadership through one's learning, writings, and insight.