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Covered by 1 scholar · Body & Health

What does flesh mean in a dream in Islam?

Ibn Sirin: Human flesh in a dream represents one's health, strength, earnings, sickness or one's shop, piety, religious attendance, fear of wrongdoing, scruti­ nizing the difference between the lawful and the unlawful, patience…

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Imam Ibn Sirin

Ibn Seerin's Dictionary of Dreams (Al-Akili tr.) · p. 170
Aspects: Meat

Human flesh in a dream represents one's health, strength, earnings, sickness or one's shop, piety, religious attendance, fear of wrongdoing, scruti­ nizing the difference between the lawful and the unlawful, patience, forbear­ ance, anger, distress, sexual desires, suffering from adversities and punishment for sins. If one's flesh grows bigger than what one actually has in a dream, it means prosperity, and if one is sick, it means recovering from his illness. If one sees himself having less flesh than what he actually has in a dream, it means stagnation of his business or loss of his money and property. If a devoted worshiper sees growth in his physical fitness in a dream, it means slackening in his devotion and occupying himself more in material gains and worldly pleasures. If one sees himself emaciated in a dream, then it means the opposite. Buying a piece of hum an flesh in a dream means having a stagnant merchandise. If a judge or a ruler finds that his flesh has grown in a dream, it means that he will become famous for his verdicts, rulings or that he will become rich, or perhaps he might grow in fury or develop anger. Growth in one's fitness in a dream also denotes happiness, joy and celebrations, while emaciation in a dream represents distress and adversities. If one sees his flesh black or blue, or if his skin is cracking in a dream, it denotes suffering from adversities, an illness or a punishment for his sins. Eating the growth of one's own flesh in a dream means usury, or living on income from usury and saving one's capital. Eating from one's own flesh in a dream also means using one's own capital, or doing something that will be followed by regret and sorrow. (Also see Meat)

See also: Meat

More dreams about flesh

4 related dreams from the classical books, each cited to its scholar.

  • Eating One’s Own Flesh

    al-Qafsi: This is indicative of consuming wealth that one has saved.

  • Eating own flesh

    al-Jibali: spending from his savings

  • Eating someone’s flesh

    al-Jibali: backbiting him; earning a benefit from him.

  • Human Flesh

    Ibn Sirin: If cooked or roasted it symbolises wealth. If • uncooked it means backbiting - If eaten. For Allah Ta'ala says; Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, you will abhor it.

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