Animals Being Kind to or Harming Humans

It should be noted that with regard to every animal that is indicativeof good, if it destroys something or wounds another animal or a human,or knocks down a wall and the like, the ruling is like the ruling on anenemy. Similarly, with every animal that is indicative of evil, if it givesa human something that is indicative of good or saves him from somehardship or helps him to do good, and he rides it and it saves him fromwalking in mud and so on, or it wards off some harm from him, then hewill get some benefit from a source that he did not expect and he will besafe from what he fears, so the ruling is like that of a friend. A man dreamt that a female monkey tried to tempt him, then whenhe got near it, it gave him some large pearls. Shaykh Shihaab - ud - Deensaid to him: You married a woman and you bought a female slave whois Indian or Yemeni or from Sudan and she is somewhat corrupt, butyou have children from her and they are memorizing the Holy Qur'an. He said: You are right.Another man said: I dreamt that I walked in a muddy area and Iwanted to ge t out but I could not. Then I dreamt that a wolf took me bythe hand and saved me. Shaykh Shihaab - ud - Deen said to him: You werein prison and had despaired of ever getting out, then a man who is verycrafty saved you. Another man said: I dreamt that I was dro wning in the sea and therewas a boat beside me. Every time I tried to grab on to it, it got awayfrom me. Then a large crocodile came and opened its mouth and said, ride on me. So I rode on it and it saved me. He said: You will be savedfrom hardship by the h elp of your enemy.