Flattery

Ingratiating oneselfto someone for worldly profits, or to gain access to knowledge, or to find ajob to help him better apply his religious obligations in a dream means honor, correcting one's religious practices or attaining one's spiritual goals. It also means evil consequences if one does not usually strive after such needs, or if he presents his needs too favorably, or ifhe does so in a dream soliciting favors from a woman he knows. It also means escaping from the dangers of his enemy. However, flaterry and ingratiating oneself to others in a dream also could mean giving preference to others' needs over one's own, trueness and being charitable. (Also see Adulation)

If a person dreams that he is flattering someone else with regard tosome worldly matter, it is indicative of something bad. If it is for thepurpose of some knowledge that he wants to learn from him or to seekhis help with some righteous deed that he wants to do, he will attainhonour. In some reports it says: Flattery is not an Islamic characteristicexcept when seeking knowledge. And it was said that flattering someonewhom one is not used to flattering is humiliation, but if he usually doesthat, then it does not indicate anything bad.