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Flour

Covered by 2 scholars · Plants & Gardens

What does flour mean in a dream in Islam?

Ibn Sirin: <Wheat; Rice flour; Semolina) In a dream, flour means money or blessings. Semolina in a dream represent a husband who is compatible with his wife.

al-Qafsi: Flour is indicative of wealth and children.

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Imam Ibn Sirin

2 translations
Hathurani tr.· p. 50

Flour made of wheat or barley symbolises a person's wealth which he had amassed. It means a life of ease and prosperity lies ahead of him. Eating flour is better than bread since bread is subjected to the heat of fire.

Al-Akili tr.· p. 172

<Wheat; Rice flour; Semolina) In a dream, flour means money or blessings. Semolina in a dream represent a husband who is compatible with his wife. Flour in a dream also means acquiring exalted knowledge, travels, money, shop, tools, castle, defense, religious nature, guidance, or recovering from an illness. However, eating it in a dream means poverty. A bowl of wheat flour in a dream represents one's savings, or it could represent one's family and children. Mixing wheat flour to make bread in a dream means that a friend will travel to meet one's family. Mixing and kneading whole-wheat flour in a dream means faith, deputyship and victory over one's enemy. Flour in a dream means immediate profits, the surfacing of the truth and enjoying comfort after toiling.

Al-Bakri Al-Qafsi

Interpretations of Dreams (Ibn Raashid Al-Bakri Al-Qafsi, Darussalam tr.) · p. 187

Flour is indicative of wealth and children. Dough is indicative ofgood wealth from trade in which there is an immediate profit, whichapplies if the dough has risen; otherwise it is indicative of troubles inone's finances and with people.

More dreams about flour

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

  • Bread or Roti Made of Flour

    Ibn Sirin: It symbolises excessive wealth. Prosperity and a comfortable life is in store for the one who eats it.

  • Rice flour

    Ibn Sirin: In a dream, rice flour means a blessing or a favor. (Also see Flour)

  • Sorters of Cotton and Sifters of Flour

    al-Qafsi: Both of them represent a reformer who separates good from bad. Aman dreamt that he was sifting wheat. Shaykh Shihaab-ud-Deen said tohim: You have decided to pay your Zakaah.

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