Bow

In a dream, a bow means travels, a brother, a wife, a son or closeness to someone. A covered bow in a dream means that, one's wife is pregnant. If a pregnant woman hands a man a bow in a dream, it means that she will conceive a girl from him. If a pregnant woman hands her husband a bow in a dream, it means that she will deliver a boy. Stretching the strings of a bow in a dream means longevity. Stretching it without an arrow in a dream means planning to travel. A broken bow in a dream signifies the death of a brother, a business partner, or a son. A bow is broken bow in a dream means that an accident may cause the hand of a brother or a business partner to fracture. Holding a broken bow in a dream means losing one's job or closing one's business. Seeing a young man attaching a string to a bow in a dream represents one's enemy. Attaching a string to a bow in a dream also means marriage, while detaching the string of a bow in a dream means divorce. Seeing oneself standing before a ruler with two bows length between them mean receiving an appointment. The two bows in a dream also represent one's eye-brows. Shooting arrows with a bow in a dream means speaking wrong about something or backbiting someone. Carving a bow in a dream means preparing to get married or begetting a son. Shooting an arrow and hitting one's target in a dream means fulfilling one's needs, or attaining one's goal. Selling one's bow and arrows in a dream means giving priority to one's religious life over that of his mundane one. Shooting hazelnuts in a town in a dream means backbiting people, while shooting hazelnuts in the forest means earning lawful money from hunting. Shooting arrows in front of the city hall in a dream means backbiting or slandering others. Shooting a pigeon in a dream means slandering one's own wife. Bending an arch in a dream means preparing for war. (Also see Eye-brow)

For a single man, the bow is indicative of a noble wife; or it wassaid that it signifies a woman who gives birth easily. For the one whosewife is pregnant, it signifies a boy. If he dreams that he gave a bow toa woman, she will bear him a son. The bow is usually indicative of aboy in his mother's womb. If the bow is broken, that signifies the deathof the person indicated. The bow may also indicative of a position ofauthority, and if it is broken that signifies that he will be dismissed. Itmay also be indicative of growing close to prominent people, becauseAllah says: "Then he [Jibreel (Gabriel)] approached and came closer,and was at a distance of two bows' length or (even) nearer."[Al-Najm 53:8-9] Breaking of the bow strings is indicative of the death of someoneon whom the dreamer relied or it may signify that he is going to stophelping him, because the common folk say of one to whom that happens,"His string is broken." It is also indicative of a slowdown in trade.