Pearls

If they are on a string, that is indicative of the Qur'an and knowledge. If a person dreams that he is boring holes in pearls, that indicates thathe will interpret the Qur'an correctly; the one who dreams that he soldpearls will forget the Qur'an. It was said: The one who dreams that he is selling pearls will begranted knowledge that he will explain to the people. If the pearls are inhis mouth, that is indicative of good religious commitment. A man said to Ibn Sireen: I dreamt that I swallowed a pearl thenI spat it out. He said: Every time you memorise something from theQur'an, you forget it. Shaykh Shihaab-ud-Deen said of a man who dreamt that he was boringholes in pearls and throwing them away: He gets married a great deal. A man said to Ibn Sireen: I dreamt that I bored a hole in a pearl. Hesaid: Do you have a mother? He said: I had a mother, but she was takencaptive. He said: Do you have a slave woman? He said: Yes, I boughther from among the female prisoners. He said: She is your mother. Andhe found that she was his mother. The one who dreams that he is making pearls is backbiting aboutpeople. A man said to Ibn Sireen: I dreamt that pearls were coming out ofmy mouth and the people were picking them up but I was not pickingup anything. He said: You are a judge but you say what you do not do.

wives, children, or servants; knowledge of the Quran or Islam; extollments.