Apricots

Eating apricots is indicative of sickness and trouble, because it endswith a stone which the eater tries to avoid for fear of damage to his teethand is worried lest he swallows it and it blocks his throat, thus causing him to die. He said: Foods that resemble it have the same significance. One of them said: Eating green apricots indicates that the dreamerwill have some money and will be healed from sickness. Eating yellowapricots indicates that he will spend a lot of money when he is ill (fortreatment). And he said: If he eats it from the tree, he will accompany a manwho is very wealthy but will have a bad end, because yellow signifiessickness which is corruption of religious commitment and gainingwealth, because of the yellow colour which is like Dinars (gold coins). Al-Faqeeh Abu'l-Qaasim ibn 'Amr said: I dreamt that the emir sentsome apricots to my father, and my father received the same number ofDinars from him.