Boils, Scabies, Leprosy, and Other Skin Diseases

These are indicative of benefits and passing troubles, because thebad humours come out of the body and take pain with them. If that ison the face or neck, or if it issues a putrid liquid, or contaminates theclothing, that is indicative of debts, worries and impugning of honor,because people are very much put off by that. A man dreamt that he had leprosy. Ibn Sireen said: You are a man towhom something bad was attributed but you are innocent of it. If he dreams that he becomes leprous whilst praying, his dreamindicates that he is going to forget the Holy Qur'an. A man said: I dreamt that I got scabies from behind. Shaykh Shihaabud-Deen said to him: There will be some stories and you will be afraidto hear them. And that is what happened. Another man dreamt that and he said: Your honour will be impugned. And that happened. Another man said: I dreamt that there was scabies between myhands and something came and snatched it. He said: You were carryingsomething on your back, and someone came and snatched it. He said:That's right. Another man said: I dreamt that I was treating boils for people andtaking good water out of them. He said: You make rosewater and thelike in glass bottles. He said: That's right. Another man said: I dreamt that I saw women who had boils or largeabscesses on them, and I was washing them with dust. He said: Youhave a garden in which there are bitter orange and pomegranate trees,and you are in charge of watering and tending it, because women of thetype described are like trees and the abscesses and boils represent thefruits mentioned. He said: You are right. Another man said: I dreamt that I killed a woman and she had bigabscesses on her body. He said: You cut down a tree in which there wasfruit. Another man said: I dreamt that I was taking flesh and boils frompeople and feeding the flesh of each to another. He said: You speakabout the honour of one man to another. Another man dreamt that and he said: You take from the wealth ofone and add it to the wealth of another. Another man said: I dreamt that I was drinking what is in people'sboils. He said: You are a cupper and you suck the cups.