Browse all Islamic dream interpretations beginning with the letter J. Each interpretation is based on authentic Islamic sources and scholarly traditions.
Category: Animals
A jackal in a dream symbolizes a cunning and deceitful person who wrongfully deprives others of their rights or spreads harm and corruption, yet it may also carry a contrasting meaning of superficial friendliness, playful manners, or lighthearted companionship that conceals intent, warning that apparent charm or humor may hide mischief or ill will.
Category: Prophets
Witnessing the prophet Jacob (Ya'qub), upon him be peace, in a dream is a profound vision signifying divine strength, a life enveloped in God's blessings, and the blessing of many progeny, though some may bring temporary grief that will ultimately be resolved. This vision further symbolizes a period of familial dispersal that will culminate in a joyous reunion. It represents drawing near to God through devout worship, sincere prayer, charity, and righteous actions. Alternatively, the dream may indicate a temporary loss of sight, the joyful recovery of a lost child, or enduring a trial due to deep familial attachment—all of which, God willing, will conclude favorably. It can also forewarn of a calamity involving the loss of family and wealth, yet the dreamer will be endowed with immense patience and emerge victorious. For an ill person, it heralds recovery; for one with a supplication or need, it signals fulfillment. If one sees himself wearing Jacob's robe, it denotes impending afflictions, distress, separation from loved ones, or illness, but these sufferings will eventually vanish, replaced by happiness. The dream also points to business dealings, travels, rising costs, concealing merchandise and later revealing it. Should a woman see Jacob's wife in a dream, it suggests she may be stripped of wealth and face slander, though her case will end positively, or it may indicate the imprisonment of a child. For a sick person, seeing her signifies recovery through God's mercy and grace, as her name, 'Rahma,' embodies divine compassion. (Also see Joseph, upon whom be peace.)
Category: Types of People
A jailer in a dream symbolizes confinement, finality, and restraint, and it is interpreted as a grave digger, indicating imprisonment that resembles burial, loss of freedom, or an ending to one’s former state, and it may also allude to stern authority, fear, and the reminder of accountability and death.
Category: Objects
(Referring to any wide-necked clay vessel.) Within a dream, a clay jar symbolizes an untrustworthy worker placed in charge of financial records. To drink pure water from such a jar signifies acquiring permissible wealth and a life of ease. Consuming water stored within one suggests having lived through half of one's appointed time. Drinking from a narrow-necked vessel may indicate testing a female servant. For a pregnant wife, if the dreamer carries a jar that drops and shatters, it portends that his wife might not survive childbirth or the period following it. A clay jar can also signify a diligent woman or a maid, while a jar made of copper denotes a woman of high standing. A jar containing wine represents a woman's monthly cycle. Drinking from it implies engaging in intimacy with one's wife during her period, an act prohibited in Islam. If the jar holds oil, honey, or milk, it points to concealed wealth. These interpretations equally apply to a small clay pitcher, a cup, earthen cookware, or a metal pot. (Also refer to Pot)
Category: Plants
In dreams, jasmine signifies joy, divine favor, and advantages. It also stands for learned religious figures and pious guides. Should one witness celestial angels coming down to gather jasmine blossoms, it foretells the passing of such scholars. Jasmine can also denote a state of hopelessness or the swearing of a dishonest vow. Conversely, it may signify the removal of worries, hardship, and misfortune. For an unmarried man, jasmine heralds marriage. To behold a jasmine bloom in one's own hand also indicates recovery from a bronchial ailment or an elevated temperature.
Category: Human Body
Jaundice in a dream symbolizes inner bitterness, emotional imbalance, and a troubled state of mind arising from jealousy, envy, or prejudice, and it may also indicate the acquisition of a new garment or point to an unsuitable or incompatible wife, reflecting discomfort, lack of harmony, and strain in personal or marital relationships. (Also see Jealousy)
Category: Objects
Witnessing this in a dream signifies conflict, wickedness, or division. Should it represent the symbol of a devout man or a scholar, it then denotes the introduction of heretical practices. To grasp a javelin in one's dream also indicates vigor, authority, a robust son, or a lucrative trade. If an impoverished man dreams of carrying one, it forecasts income. For a wealthy man, such a vision suggests growth in his riches and influence, or the broadening of his dominion. (Also see Lance, Lancet)
Category: Human Body
The lower jaw signifies the leader of a community with numerous descendants. Should one observe his chin becoming extended in the dream, it means he will grow critical of others and engage in fruitless chatter. It also signifies a decline from a prior state of strength. (Also see Body, Chin)
Category: Feelings
Experiencing jealousy in a dream foretells losses for the one who feels it. A jealous individual possesses a wicked trait, and jealousy itself is a vice. If a person who is envied by others sees his situation bettering in the dream, it portends impoverishment, bitterness, spite, sorcery, or ill-will for the envier, and advantages for the target of the envy. In a dream, jealousy further signifies greed, resentment, stinginess, and attachment to worldly matters. To harm someone by gazing upon them with contempt in a dream suggests the aggressor will himself suffer from the malicious gaze of his victim. (Also see Jaundice)
Category: Animals
A jerboa appearing in a dream symbolizes a deceiver who frequently takes oaths in God's name to affirm his falsehoods. Engaging in combat with a jerboa denotes a dispute with a person possessing such characteristics. A jerboa in a dream can also represent a grave robber or an investigator.
Category: Other
Seeing oneself praying in the sacred mosque of Jerusalem in a dream signifies the receipt of great wealth, especially through inheritance or unexpected lawful gain, and facing Jerusalem instead of the Kaaba during prayer indicates a forthcoming pilgrimage to Mecca, while performing ritual ablution in Jerusalem symbolizes blessings in trade, lawful profits, and prosperity arising from one’s business and worldly efforts. (Also see Canopy, City, Masjid)
Category: Action
Jesting or joking in a dream symbolizes inner weakness and instability, indicating poverty, difficult circumstances, indifference, low morale, uncertainty, sluggishness, and diminished self-worth, and it may also reflect an underlying ailment, hunger, unfulfilled love, or deep sorrow, where laughter or playfulness serves as a veil for hardship, emotional need, or inner pain.
Category: Prophets
To witness the prophet Jesus (Isa), son of Mary, upon both be peace, in a dream signifies that the dreamer is a blessed, generous, and content ascetic who pleases his Lord, often destined for extensive travel and possibly gaining knowledge of medicine and herbs. Such a vision offers protection from calamities in the coming year, ensures fulfilled wishes and success in one's trade, and denotes a life of asceticism, journeys across the land, safety from enemies, and potential renown as a physician. If he is seen in a town observing its people, it signifies the lifting of afflictions and a period of peace for that place. Seeing him with his mother, upon both be peace, indicates a great divine miracle or sign manifesting there. If one sees himself as Jesus, wears his garment, or performs a prophetic duty, it foretells a rise in status: a scholar's knowledge will spread widely, a physician will become celebrated, and in general, it brings honor, power, and blessings, especially if felt with awe. For the sick, it promises recovery, but seeing Jesus ill portends one's own death. Overall, the vision points to miraculous events, social justice, and economic prosperity. For a pregnant woman, it means bearing a future physician. It may also indicate religious doubt, philosophical conflicts, discord, or the rise of his followers. Alternatively, it could signify false accusations, slander against one's mother, or experiences of distress, sorrow, defamation, or relocation, though also miracles. As the bringer of glad tidings who foretold Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace, the dream signifies good news, answered prayers, divine wrath against challengers from the upper class, or conversely, bounty, good fortune, and virtuous companionship. For a child, it may mean growing up orphaned or raised by his mother to become a righteous scholar, perhaps traveling between Syria and Egypt. For an infertile spouse, it promises restored fertility and fruitfulness. Finally, seeing Jesus descending upon a town heralds the establishment of justice and righteousness, prefiguring his eventual return by God's leave to defeat the Antichrist, eradicate falsehood, and fill the earth with justice, blessings, and victory for the believers.
Category: Objects
(Jet, the velvet-black coal used for jewelry, in a dream symbolizes joy and adornment, indicating festivities, celebrations, happiness, honor, and marriage, yet it also carries a warning meaning of doubtful wealth, tainted earnings, or friendships formed for personal interest rather than sincerity, and if one’s wife is pregnant, seeing jet in a dream signifies that she will give birth to a son.
Category: Objects
The jewel or light of the father’s eyes in a dream symbolizes one’s children, whether sons or daughters, representing their preciousness, joy, and the source of comfort, pride, and emotional fulfillment in the parent’s life.
Category: Types of People
In a dream, a jeweller symbolizes a devout individual, a person of renunciation, and a dedicated worshipper. He may also stand for a mystic sage, a generous ruler, or a virtuous exemplar—a man of learning and piety whose counsel commands great esteem. A jeweller in a dream can further denote a man with many dependents or a person of substantial wealth. (Also see Goldsmith, Jewellery shop)
Category: Objects
A jewellery shop in a dream symbolizes joy and adornment, indicating happiness, celebrations, weddings, and the acquisition of ornaments and beauty, and it may also allude to eloquence and speech, symbolized by the Adam’s apple, or to a gathering for knowledge and devotion, such as a circle for studying the Holy Qur’an, where hearts are enriched with spiritual treasures. (Also see Jeweller)
Category: Action
To join combatants on the field of battle in a dream signifies that the dreamer is a sincere worshipper who faithfully performs his prayers and discharges his obligatory and voluntary alms. Witnessing people advancing toward the fray indicates they will be granted divine pardon, triumph, strength, and harmony among the faithful. Dying as a martyr in God's cause within a dream heralds delight, contentment, and well-being. Engaging in a maritime struggle in a dream, however, suggests impoverishment, defeat, and moving toward ruin. Prevailing in a sea battle against a despot signifies a renewal of religious devotion; it may also represent a protective zeal for one's wife or succeeding in a conflict to uphold one's parents' honor. Achieving victory on the land battlefield during such a struggle denotes gains in one's trade. Returning from a sacred war against a tyrant in a dream warns that one might forsake their religious duties or become undutiful to their parents—a grave transgression in Islam. (Also see Inner struggle)
Category: Jinn
Jinn in a dream symbolize hidden forces and unseen influences, representing fraud, deception, cunning, treachery, theft, alcoholism, heretical practices, travel, music, taverns, trickery, illusion, sorcery, and magic, reflecting matters that are concealed, misleading, or beyond ordinary perception, and since Jinn are created from smokeless fire, among them are believers and devils just as among humans there are believers and human satans. If one is transformed into a Jinni in a dream, it indicates acquiring such traits of craftiness, secrecy, or unusual abilities, while meeting a Jinni who is clearly truthful, knowledgeable, and wise signifies glad tidings, benefit, or good news. Seeing Jinn standing at one’s door points to loss, misfortune, an unfulfilled vow, or persistent bad luck, and seeing them enter one’s house and work therein warns of thieves causing serious damage or loss. Teaching the Qur’an to a gathering of Jinn in a dream signifies elevation in rank, leadership, authority, or appointment to a position of command, while accompanying Jinn indicates association with people of deep knowledge, wisdom, or inner understanding. Marrying a female Jinni signifies marrying an insolent or troublesome spouse or facing a great calamity and hardship. If a righteous person sees himself chaining Jinn, it reflects strong faith, steadfastness in prayer and fasting, and mastery over the lower self and base desires, while fighting Jinn indicates protection and safety from their harm. Befriending a known leader among the Jinn signifies becoming an enforcer of law, such as a police officer pursuing criminals and bandits, or attaining guidance, knowledge, and the role of a teacher. Seeing Jinn gathered in a known place may also symbolize hidden dangers, such as snakes, scorpions, or fearful creatures of the wilderness, reflecting concealed threats and unseen perils. (Also see Dragon, Pumpkin)
Category: Action
Jogging or hustling in a dream symbolizes continuous effort and perseverance, indicating striving, labor, and dedication to earning a livelihood, and it reflects working diligently to provide for one’s family, fulfill responsibilities, and secure sustenance through sustained personal effort. (Also see Walking)
Category: Prophets
Seeing God’s prophet Jonah, Yunus upon whom be peace, in a dream signifies haste and impulsiveness, indicating that the dreamer may make a quick decision that leads to confinement, restriction, or severe hardship, followed later by release, relief, and a period of ease and enjoyment of life among a group of confused or searching people, and it also reflects an emotional nature marked by sensitivity, quick anger, swift repentance, and an equally quick return to contentment and satisfaction.
Category: Prophets
To see the prophet Joseph (Yusuf), upon him be peace, in a dream signifies attaining a lofty position or vice-regency. It may also denote a period of rising prices, drought, separation from family, suffering from others' deceit, imprisonment followed by divine deliverance, and experiencing both favor and tribulation related to one's beauty and noble character. This vision further signifies gaining knowledge of dream interpretation, capturing an enemy, engaging in irrigation or river work, or transporting the deceased between lands, and may represent a great event or miracle, recalling how he, by God's leave, restored his father's sight. Joseph's shirt in a dream symbolizes the alleviation of grief and recovery from illness; if spotted with blood, it means separation and imprisonment; if torn from the back, it signifies false accusation. For a woman, this dream indicates a loss of comfort and eyesight, unhappiness from separation from a beloved, and love for a distinguished man; yet if she is afflicted, it foretells God's merciful turning and guidance to repentance, bringing marriage if unmarried, wealth if poor, and improvement in both worldly and spiritual life. Seeing Joseph as a young boy suggests ill fortune with siblings, enduring lies, imprisonment, and trials before ultimately rising to triumph and authority over them. The dreamer of Joseph is characterized as pious, generous, charitable, and a dispenser of sound counsel. If Joseph speaks or gives something in the dream, it denotes learning dream interpretation and sacred chronicles. Finally, the vision also portends marriage to a beautiful and genuinely loving wife. (Also see Jacob, Sale)
Category: Types of People
To see a judge or governor in a dream signifies engagement in judicial affairs or governance. If one is appointed a judge, it denotes just and righteous conduct, whereas sitting on the bench yet failing to judge justly reveals one's own injustice. Presiding over people may indicate dismissal from a position. For a traveler, becoming a judge warns of robbery or a divine blessing turning into a curse. Witnessing a known judge act unjustly points to widespread inequity and deceit in measures within that community. Standing before a judge who treats one fairly promises justice in a dispute or relief from distress, but an unfair judge foretells loss to an adversary. Seeing a judge with scales tilting favorably signals great divine reward for good deeds, while an opposite tilt is a warning to repent or abandon sin. If the judge weighs bad money, it foretells giving false testimony that is accepted. Dreaming oneself as a judge, sage, scholar, or righteous person brings fame, a good reputation, asceticism, and spiritual knowledge if qualified; otherwise, it portends false accusation or robbery during travel. A cheerful judge brings glad tidings. The judge's bench signifies a scare or fight, and the seat of rulers, judges, or scholars denotes disturbance, sorrow, financial loss, illness, depression, or exposed secrets. For a sick person, standing before a judge may mean death, though a favorable verdict promises recovery. One facing adversities who sits on the judge's bench will triumph. An unknown judge in a dream represents God Almighty, while a known judge represents a physician.
Category: Types of People
A juggler in a dream, whether a conjurer, illusionist, or trickster, symbolizes diversion and deception, indicating amusement that distracts from truth, sleight of hand, false appearances, sarcasm, mockery, and lies, and it may also represent immoral conduct or corrupt mediation, such as a prostitute, adulteress, procuress, or a servant who uses cunning and manipulation rather than honesty and integrity. (Also see Juggling)
Category: Action
Juggling or the practice of conjuring, magic arts, sleight of hand, and tricks in a dream symbolizes deception and false display, indicating pride, pretension, artificial behavior, and the use of illusion to mislead others, and it points to temptation, moral trial, and being drawn toward appearances that conceal the truth. (Also see Magician)
Category: Human Body
The jugular vein in a dream symbolizes life force, binding ties, and vital commitments, so if it splits open and blood pours forth it signifies death or the end of one’s life term, while the jugular vein itself also represents a firm covenant, a binding pledge, or the act of securing oneself with resolve, and it may allude to tying a kerchief over the head during intense labor or heat, reflecting endurance, effort, and steadfastness under strain. (Also see Aorta, Veins)
Category: Drinks
Extracting the liquid from grapes to produce wine in a dream signifies affluence and a bountiful yield. The same meaning applies to pressing sugar cane or other fruits. Should a destitute person envision himself crushing grapes for wine, it foretells his future prosperity. If one sees everyone engaged in pressing grapes for wine or olives for their oil during a time of economic hardship in his country, it predicts an economic revival. For a scholar, a seeker of knowledge, or a prisoner, such a vision means they will be delivered from a looming threat. For a creditor, it indicates he will reclaim his loans from debtors. For a student of sacred knowledge, it signifies he will attain his scholarly goals. For an unmarried man, it portends marriage and numerous offspring. The act of producing wine in a dream can also indicate favorable relations with associates or acquiring income that is illicit and morally impure. (Also see Extracting oils from seeds)
Category: Food
A jujube fruit in a dream symbolizes a noble, strong, and cheerful person who benefits others and remains firm and patient during hardships and trials, and sucking the juice of a jujube signifies gaining strength, influence, or power, while the fruit itself may also represent the henna-adorned fingers of a woman prepared for a wedding or religious ceremony, reflecting beauty, festivity, and auspicious occasions. (Also see Henna, Jujube tree)
Category: Trees
A jujube tree in a dream symbolizes a dignified and handsome man endowed with wisdom, sound judgment, and good character, reflecting a person whose outward beauty is matched by inner understanding, maturity, and beneficial counsel. (See Buckthorn, Jujube, Lot tree, Tree)
Category: Action
To jump from one place to another out of fear or haste in a dream symbolizes facing accusations, slander, blasphemy, or receiving deeply troubling news that tarnishes one's reputation. Jumping down from a great height signifies a state of separation or a shift in one's circumstances from comfort and ease to hardship and distress. By contrast, a rapid, upward jump denotes elevation in rank, success, and an improvement in one's social or professional standing. Conversely, a plummeting or downward jump represents a decline in status, a loss of position, and a general deterioration in one's condition and fortunes. (Also see Jumping)
Category: Action
To observe oneself leaping on a single leg in a dream indicates a transition from an old dwelling or situation to a new one. If one makes a long, forceful bound in his dream, it signifies a journey. Hopping on one leg due to sickness or disability in a dream represents losing half of one's wealth or possessions and struggling to meet one's needs with what remains. Engaging in football, bouncing a ball, or performing athletic jumps, acrobatics, or gymnastics in a dream predicts gains or advantages for someone accustomed to such sports or training. Otherwise, it may signify confronting serious or perilous hardship. In a dream, moving by jumping from spot to spot also denotes false reports, baseless allegations, shifting sentiments among companions, or growing weary of them. If one vaults over a wall in a dream, it suggests he may abandon belief for disbelief or heed the counsel of an unbeliever. (Also see Jump)
Category: Earth
A jungle or forest in a dream symbolizes a group of people whose company brings no benefit, marked by confusion, rivalry, and intrusion, as its tangled growth reflects individuals encroaching upon one another, concealing hidden dangers like hunters lying in wait to ambush their prey, and if the jungle is owned or associated with someone, it signifies enemies, opposition, or conflicts that the dreamer will be compelled to confront and struggle against. (Also see Forest)
Category: Types of People
A junk dealer or ragman in a dream symbolizes deception and falsehood, representing a hoaxer, habitual liar, fortune-teller, or one who spreads superstition and fabricated tales, and it also signifies a person who deals in imitation or counterfeit goods, such as fake jewelry, warning against being misled by appearances or empty claims.
Category: Celestial Bodies
The planet Jupiter in a dream symbolizes a treasurer, keeper of wealth, or one entrusted with resources, and seeing it together with the Moon signifies commercial activity, successful trade, prosperity, and elevation in rank or status, while seeing Jupiter descending, intersecting with other stars, or burning indicates gatherings devoted to knowledge and art such as literary circles, poetry recitals, dream interpretation, and singing, as well as acts of worship including prayer, fasting, pilgrimage to God’s Sacred House in Mecca, and sincere religious devotion. (Also see Heavens)
Category: Feelings
Witnessing an act of injustice perpetrated by a person in authority within a dream symbolically represents its opposite in waking life, foretelling the establishment of fairness and righteous conduct. Observing an unjust ruler in a dream can paradoxically signify an era of comfort, peace, and societal tranquility under strong protection, or it may point to physical expansions and urban development within one's community. To see oneself acting with justice and impartiality in a dream underscores the imperative to administer fairness and resolve matters equitably, particularly among one's own family members. If the dreamer is ordinarily heedless, sinful, tyrannical, or oppressive and witnesses himself dispensing justice, this powerful vision signifies a profound turning point, heralding sincere repentance and a return to God Almighty, abandoning past transgressions for a path of righteousness and spiritual renewal. (Also see Injustice, Judge, Unjust ruler)