Needle
Covered by 2 scholars · Tools & Crafts
What does needle mean in a dream in Islam?
Ibn Sirin: A needle in a dream represents a wife for a bachelor, though for a poor person it means satisfaction. To hold a needle in a dream means to correct oneself.
al-Jibali: wife; one’s condition — broken needle: bad condition
Imam Ibn Sirin
A needle symbolises an obedient wife.
A needle in a dream represents a wife for a bachelor, though for a poor person it means satisfaction. To hold a needle in a dream means to correct oneself. If the needle is threaded in the dream, it means finding a way to improve one's life. A broken needle in a dream means difficulties and trials. If one's needle is stolen in a dream, it means that one's unfavorable conditions may last. (Also see Sacking needle)
al-Jibali (Sunnah)
wife; one’s condition — broken needle: bad condition
More dreams about needle
6 related dreams from the classical books, each cited to its scholar.
- Sacking needle
Ibn Sirin: A sacking needle in a dream represents a woman, because of its threading hole. Holding a sacking needle in a dream means travels, or if one's wife is pregnant, it means that she will beget twin girls.
- Sewing with a needle
al-Jibali: giving advice to people; doing beneficial deeds.
- Sewing with a Threaded Needle
Ibn Sirin: This means that his affairs will be set aright and he will attain respectability amongst the people.
- Threading a Needle
Ibn Sirin: Threading a needle as long as it is not used for sewing also symbolises a dutiful wife.
- Threading and Sewing with a Needle
Ibn Sirin: If a man sees himself as threading a needle and sewing the clothes of people it means he will counsel them. Some interpreters say it is a message for him to reform and put right his affairs.
- Upholsterer's needle
Discussed under a related entry.
Related symbols
Saw needle in your dream?
Manam will read your full dream — not just the symbol — and synthesize what the scholars say in the context of everything else that happened.