Beheading

In a dream, beheading means freedom from slavery or dispelling sorrows and dismay, payment of one's debts, or it could mean prospering. If one knows his assailant in the dream, it means receiving wealth at his hand. If one is sick, it means that he will recover .from his illness, and ifhe is not sick, it means that he will attend a pilgrimage. If the assailant is a young boy, then it means comfort, joy and relief from his burdens through his own death. If a healthy person is beheaded in a dream, it means the end of his comfort or loss of his job or authority. If one sees the governor ofthe town beheading him in a dream, it means that God Almighty will save him from his sorrows and strengthen him in this life. If one sees a ruler beheading his subjects in a dream, it means that he will issue a decree of amnesty for all prisoners. If one is beheaded as a result of a judgment or by robbers in a dream, it means that either one of his parents or a child of his may die shortly. If a condemned person on death row sees himself beheaded in a dream, it means that he will be released from prison and his judgment will be rectified. If an investor or a money exchanger sees that, then it means loss of his capital investment. If a traveler is beheaded in a dream, it represents his safe return home. If rivals see that in a dream, it means loss of their fight. (Also see Cutting off)

Striking the neck and severing the head is indicative of security forone wh o is afraid, relief for one who is distressed, healing for one whois sick and payment of debt for one who owes a debt, because freeingthe neck means releasing it from the situation it was in. A man who hadcommitted an offence dreamt that so and so struck h is neck. I said tohim: You will go back to your work. And he went back to it. My mother - may Allah have mercy on her - dreamt that that happened to me, andI was appointed as a judge. If a king dreams that he struck the necks ofhis subjects, he will pardon the offenders.