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Bees

Covered by 3 scholars · Insects & Reptiles

Imam Ibn Sirin

Ibn Seerin's Dictionary of Dreams (Al-Akili tr.) · p. 37

In a dream, bees represent prosperity, or a dangerous adventure. Seeing a beehive and extracting honey from it in a dream means earning lawful money. Taking all the honey from the beehive and leaving nothing for the bees in a dream means being unjust. If bees sit over one's head in a dream, it means winning the presidency over people. If bees sit in someone's hands in a dream, they mean a good crop for a farmer, while for someone else, they means a fight. Bees in a dream also represent an army. Killing bees in a dream means obliterating one's enemy. Bees in a dream also represent scholars, knowledge compilers, striving hard or collecting taxes. Bees in a dream also represent a bread winner who is a hard working person, stern and sometime dangerous, though he does bring some benefits to his companions. A bee sting in a dream means harm driven by a group of adversaries. Bees in a dream also mean taking a beating or falling sick. Bees in a dream also represent the army of believers, while locusts represent the army of disbelievers. A bee in a dream also represents a seer. (Also see Beehive)

See also: Beehive

Al-Bakri Al-Qafsi

Interpretations of Dreams (Ibn Raashid Al-Bakri Al-Qafsi, Darussalam tr.) · p. 128

Bees are indicative of provision and useful people who do good andrefrain from evil. Shaykh Shihaab-ud-Deen said: The hive of bees represents abeautiful wife. For the one who possesses it, it represents land or a boator a mount or livelihood or a house or a garden. It may also signifyarmies because of the large numbers of bees, thus it is indicative ofleadership for the one they swarm around or who gets control of them. A man dreamt that bees swarmed around him, and the dreaminterpreter said to him: You will gain a position of leadership and thengain control over Qafsah. That is what happened and his sovereigntythere continued in his offspring, who are Banu'l-Rasheed, for morethan one hundred years until the Ameer al-Mu'mineen came to Qafsahand destroyed its wall and cut down its date palms. One of them told me: I dreamt that I flew in the air and I came down on the wings of bees. I said to him: You will be present with the witnesses. And that is whathappened. If a king dreams that he took control of a place for bees, he will takecontrol of a populated city. If he dreams that he takes out what is in it ofhoney, he will take all the people's wealth. The wasp signifies a man who argues on the basis of falsehood andis an evildoer, because it eats the bees. If wasps enter a city, that isindicative of the entry of courageous armies who will fight its people.

al-Jibali (Sunnah)

The Dreamer's Handbook (Muhammad Mustafa al-Jibali) · p. 325

beneficial, blessed people

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