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Breaking up Words and Changing Vowels

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Al-Bakri Al-Qafsi

Interpretations of Dreams (Ibn Raashid Al-Bakri Al-Qafsi, Darussalam tr.) · p. 57

For example, one of the Emirs of Marrakesh had a box in which he kept things that were precious to him. He lost the key to the box, then he dreamt that he entered the middle of his house where he saw bitter orange trees on the right and left. He picked fruit from the tree and opened it, and found the key inside it. He summoned a dream interpreter and told him that he had lost the key and what he had seen (in his dream). The interpreter said to him: These books that are in front of you - is there a book of history among them? He said: Yes. He said: Take it out. When he took it out, he said: Open it in the middle. When he opened it, he said to him: The fruit that you picked from which tree was it? He said: From the tree on the right as one enters. He said: Take your key from the right of the books. And he found it there. He said to him: How did you know that? He said: The word Naaranj (bitter orange) may be misread as Taareekh (history), and in the middle of the bitter orange fruit there is a thin tissue like paper, so I said: It must be among the histo ry books. This is very smart, and I have not seen any other example of this. With regard to cutting up words and changing vowels, an example of that is where a man avoids his wife because of something that prevents intercourse, then he dreams that he was g iven some coriander, which in Arabic is called Kusbarah. The first two letters refer to the private part of the woman, and the remaining letters give us the word Bariyy which means free or ready.

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