Fasting

Fasting in a dream represents vows and offerings. Interrupting the fast in a dream means an illness, a journey or backbiting someone. If one interrupts his obligatory fast through forgetfulness in a dream, it means that he will receive a pleasing gift or money. Fasting in a dream also means honor, rising in station, or it could mean repentance from sin, repayment of a debt, penitence for a sinner or begetting a son. Observing the obligatory fast of the month of Ramadan in a dream means understanding something about which one has doubt or recognizing the truth without falsification or distortion. If one finds that he is the only person observing the obligatory fast in the dream, and if he is unlettered, it means that he will memorize the Holy Qur'an, attain a spiritual maturity and receive glad tidings. This dream also indicates that he is a pious and a religious person. If one is sick, it means that he will recover from his illness. If he is lost in heedlessness, it means that God Almighty will grant him guidance. If he is indebted, it means that he will be able to repay his debts. If in his dream, one intentionally breaks his fast during the prescribed fast of the holy month of Ramadan, it means that he could kill someone. Similarly, if one sees himself killing someone in a dream, it means that he has intentionally broke his obligatory fast. Observing the two months of atonement for the sin of breaking the fast during the holy month of Ramadan or for any such fast for the expiation of sins in a dream means that one may fall sick and repent to God Almighty from his sins. Intentionally breaking the obligatory fast of Ramadan in a dream also means neglecting one of the pillars of'Ielam.Jf one acknowledges that, then vows to offer the required duties in a dream, it means that he could receive an unexpected gift which will arrive shortly. If one recognizes in his dream the importance of the month of Ramadan, it means that he is on the right path.lfhe is not fasting, it means that he may go on ajourney. Voluntary fasting in a dream means protection against one's enemies. If a sick person sees himself fasting in a dream, it could mean his death, silence, celebrations or recovering from an illness. It could also represent one's faith in God Almighty and sincerity in his words and actions. If one sees masses of people fasting in a dream, it could mean a famine. If one eats during the hours of observing the fast in a dream, it means that he will commit a sin, or it could mean indebtedness or falling sick. Fasting the month of Ramadan in a dream also means safety, protection from evil or repentance from sins. Fasting the extra six days following the festival day which concludes the holy month of Ramadan in a dream means patching one's prayers or paying charity or regretting one's faults. Fasting Monday and Thursday of every week in a dream means strengthening family ties. Fasting the three white days of every month (i.e., the 13th, 14th, and the 15th days of the lunar month) in a dream means repayment of one's debts in installments or teaching someone how to properly read the Qur'an or spreading knowledge. Fasting during the tenth day of the lunar month of Muharram in a dream represents asceticism, piety, renouncing the world or attending the pilgrimage to Mecca. Fasting the day when the pilgrims are standing at mount 'Arafat in a dream means acceptance of one's charities. Fasting the last ten days of the month of Zul-Hijjah in a dream means attaining a good conclusion to one's life in this world to become a pious person, or it could also mean fulfilling a promise. Fasting the day of'Ashiira in a dream means doing good deeds, but it could also mean witnessing adversities and escaping from its dangers, or it could mean living to witness the next religious festival, or if one's wife is pregnant, it could mean that she will beget a blessed son who will grow to be a righteous man. Fasting during the lunar month of Rajab in a dream means working for people in authority, or it could mean that one may be commissioned to work overseas, or it could mean going on a short trip. Fasting an extra day in doubt about one's proper religious performance in a dream means committing a sin or lack of vigilance and certitude about one's devotion. Fasting days of the month of Ramadan one has missed for a permissible reason in a dream means release of a prisoner or repentance of a sinner. Fasting a votive fast or a vowed fast for the purpose of an attainment in a dream means attaining one's goal, joy and happiness. Observing a votive perpetual or an ongoing fast in a dream means undertaking a heavy responsibility or following innovation, or it could mean becoming a loner or abstaining from talking to others, or that one would only talk if the subject is beneficial to others, for fasting in a dream also means silence. Observing a votive perpetual fast in a dream also represents a pious and a religious person. If the person is a sinner, such votive fast in a dream also may mean that he will get nothing out of what he wants. Paying the due charity <S..adaqat-ulFitr) after completing one's fast in a dream means recovering from an illness. If one observes a fast for show in his dream, it means that he will receive what he desires. (Also see Ashurti; Feast of Breaking the Fast)

Dreaming of breaking the fast in Ramadan (in a dream) is indicativeof the same as acts of worship. For one who wants to travel, it indicatesthat he is not going to travel or that he will face hardship during hisjourney. It is indicative of recovery for one who is sick and unable toeat; but for the sick person who is able to eat it may be indicative of hisdeath. Fasting may be indicative of severing ties with worldly affairsand loss of livelihood. One of the dream interpreters said: If he dreamsthat it is Ramadan, then his dream is indicative of high prices. But if hedreams that he is fasting all the time, he will stop sinning. If he dreams that he fasted voluntarily, he will not get sick, becauseof the Hadeeth, "Fast and you will be healthy." If he fasts but does not know whether it is obligatory or voluntary,that indicates that he has to fulfil a vow or he may keep quiet, becausethe basic meaning of Sawm is keeping silent. Another man said: I dreamt that everyone around me was fasting,even the animals. He said: Everyone around you had nothing to eat. A man said: I dreamt that I fasted on the day of Eid. He said: You didsomething Makrooh. A man said: I dreamt that I emptied all the vessels in the house andthe stomachs of my children and family. He said: You forced all thepeople in your house to fast and you prevented them from eating. Andit was as he said. If a person breaks his fast (in the dream) and it was the day of Eid,he will be relieved of his distress and happiness will return to him. Ifhe dreams that he broke the fast deliberately in Ramadan, he will kill aman deliberately; if he kills a man deliberately (in his dream), he willbreak the fast in Ramadan. If he dreams that he was a man who gotused to fasting all the time but he broke the fast, he will backbite aboutpeople, because of the report which says that "backbiting invalidatesthe fast." And he may fall sick.