Dried fruit

Such as dates, raisins, figs, walnuts and the like. All of these signifyprovision, and we have seen at the beginning of the book that they maybe categorized according to the ease or difficulty of eating them. A man said to Ibn Sireen (May Allah be please with him): I dreamt that I found forty dates atthe gate of the emir. He said to him: You will be given forty lashes withthe stick. Then he came to him after that with the same dream. He saidto him: You will get one thousand Dirhams. He asked him about thereason for that and he said: You told me about your first dream when thetrees were drying up at the end of the year, and you told me about yoursecond dream when the sap was rising in the trees. And in each case itturned out as he said. But in my view, there is some problem with this interpretation,because the leaves of the date palm do not dry up. What he meant bydates was fresh dates, not dried dates, because dried dates are alwaysavailable. And when he spoke about it being dry, he was referring to thetime for fresh dates having passed; he did not mean that the tree itselfdries up. One of them said: If he dreams that he is eating dried dates, hisdream is indicative of reading the Qur'an. Another one said: Rather itis indicative of provision that is purely for him, or it means that he mayhear some good and beneficial words. If he dreams that he split the datestone, he will be blessed with a child, because Allah says: " Verily, it is Allah Who causes the seed grain and the fruitstone (like date stone) to split and sprout. He brings forth theliving from the dead, and it is He Who brings forth the dead fromthe living. " [al - An'am 6:95] And if he dreamt that he was eating dried dates with pitch, hewill divorce his wife. These interpretations vary according to thecircums tances of the dreamer.