Meat
Covered by 2 scholars · Food & Drink
What does meat mean in a dream in Islam?
Ibn Sirin: Cooked meat in a dream means money. Eating raw meat in a dream means illness and pain. Eating raw meat in a dream also may mean benefits. Seeing raw meat and not eating from it in a dream could have adverse meaning.
al-Qafsi: There are several categories.
Imam Ibn Sirin
Cooked meat in a dream means money. Eating raw meat in a dream means illness and pain. Eating raw meat in a dream also may mean benefits. Seeing raw meat and not eating from it in a dream could have adverse meaning. Eating cooked meat in a dream means increase in one's wealth. Eating a meat dish with an old man in a dream means becoming renowned, or entering the inner circle of a governor. Buying meat from the butcher in a dream means adversities. Tender meat in a dream mean death or backbiting. Eating the flesh of a human being in a dream means backbiting him. Eating one's own flesh in a dream means earning money from one's own sweat. If a woman eats the flesh of another woman in a dream, it means that they are lesbians. If a woman eats her own flesh in a dream, it means that she will commit adultery. The meat of a yellow cow in a dream means illness. The cooked meat of asnake in a dream means receiving money from one's enemy. The uncooked flesh of a snake in a dream means slanderi-ig one's enemy. The meat of a lion in a dream means receiving money from a ruler and the same goes for the flesh of all predatory animals or birds. Hog or swine's meat in a dream means unlawful money. Eating sausages or dried meat in a dream means speaking ill of deceased people. Camel's meat in a dream means earning money from a rich and a powerful enemy unless if the one seeing it does not touch it in his dream. However, touching camel's meat in a dream means suffering from such a strong person. Eating it cooked in a dream means defrauding someone, then falling sick and recovering from one's illness. It is also said that eating camel's meat in a dream means earning money from a ruler. Beef in a dream means hardships, toiling and lack of work. Holding a mutton inside one's house in a dream means meeting with a new person, accepting an invitation, or inviting a person one has never met or known to share a meal. Seeing a whole skinned but uncut mutton inside one's house in a dream means a sudden adversity, loss, calamity, or death. If the mutton is fat, it means that one may receive an inheritance from a will which is left by a deceased relative. If it is skinny, it means that one will inherit nothing from him. Eating broiled beef in a dream means standing before a judge or a ruler. Eating a chicken in a dream means receiving benefits from a woman. Meat in a dream also means forbearance and patience for someone who is hot tempered, or who gets angry easily. Eating meat in a dream also could mean recovering from an illness, an end to one's distress, trouble and adversities. Eating the meat of an unlawful animal in a dream means receiving unlawful money. Eating a suspicious meat in a dream means earning suspicious money, or having an illegitimate marriage. Eating fowls' meat in a dream means profits for a traveller. Eating a fish in a dream means easy, lawful and enjoyable earnings. Cooked or broiled fowl meat in a dream means profits and money earned from a woman through deception and dishonesty. If it is uncooked in the dream, then it means backbiting or slandering a woman. Eating the meat of an unlawful bird in a dream means deceiving, defrauding, or stealing money from unjust people. Eating swan's meat in a dream means benefits drawn from pious and religious people. Eating fired or broiled chicks in a dream means hard earned money. Unknown meat in a dream represents the hidden treasures of past nations, or buried treasures. (Also see Butcher; Flesh; Mutton; Pot)
Al-Bakri Al-Qafsi
There are several categories.
More dreams about meat
21 related dreams from the classical books, each cited to its scholar.
- Broiling meat
Discussed under a related entry.
- Camel Meat
al-Qafsi: Camel meat is indicative of wealth acquired from a strong enemy.
- Cow meat
al-Jibali: illness; good provision
- Eating Camel Meat
Ibn Sirin: It means illness for the one who eats it.
- Eating Elephant Meat
Ibn Sirin: The one who eats the meat will receive assets from some authority. The extent of such assets will dei pend on how much meat he eats.
- Eating Lion Meat
Ibn Sirin: The one who eats the meat will receive riches from some authority or a powerful person.
- Eating Roasted Meat
Ibn Sirin: Eating roasted meat means that the observer of the dream will be given meagre livelihood and will face much hardships and anxiety for, roasting is called shayyun in Arabic meaning a wound.
- Eating Turtle Meat
Ibn Sirin: He will acquire Islamic knowledgę.
- Goat Meat
al-Qafsi: Lamb is better than goat meat. Some of them said that if the lamb iscooked, that indicates that one will get provision and some trouble.
- Horse meat
al-Jibali: honor and status
- Meat and gravy
al-Qafsi: Meat and gravy in a pot are indicative of noble provision.
- Meat of a predator
al-Jibali: power in proportion with the predator’s power * Meat of any animal that represents an enemy (snake, scorpion, crocodile, etc.): achieving victory over an enemy or gaining something from him.
- Mule’s or donkey’s meat
al-Jibali: sinning; unlawful earnings
- Roasted meat
Ibn Sirin: To buy roasted or grilled meat from a restaurant in a dream means enrolling one's children in a school and entrusting them to a good teacher to educate them and properly train them.
- Roasting Meat
Ibn Sirin: If a person sees himself roasting meat on fire, it implies that he will safeguard himself against backbiting.
- Sheep or goat meat
al-Jibali: wealth and good provision
- Slaughtering a Lamb not for Its Meat
Ibn Sirin: A child or member of his family will die.
- Slaughtering an Ewe for its Meat
Ibn Sirin: If a person sees himself as slaughtering an ewe for its meat, it is a glad tiding that he will receive some benefit from a woman.
- Slaughtering an Ewe not for its Meat
Ibn Sirin: It means he will marry a woman.
- Slaughtering an Ox and Distributing Its Meat
Ibn Sirin: If a person sees himself slaughtering a working-ox (meant for ploughing), and distributing its meat it means he will die soon.
- Swan's meat
Ibn Sirin: Eating swan's meat in a dream means benefits drawn from pious and religious people. (Also see Dusk; Meat)
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