Striking or Hitting

Shaykh Shihaab-ud-Deen said: Striking (in a dream) indicates thatthe one who is striking is impugning the honor of the one who isstruck, and the latter will be faced with distress because he kept quietabout it and did not fight back in most cases. This applies if the victim ison top (in the fight). But if the one who is hitting is on top, then in mostcases he will regret hitting the other one, so he will say kind words tohim or will give him something useful. Or the one who is hit may getsome clothing, especially in winter, because hitting and clothing raisethe temperature. He said: Hitting may also be indicative of somethinggood reaching the one who was hit from the one who hit him, unlesshe hit him with a piece of wood, in which case it indicates that he willmake him a promise but will not fulfill it. If he dreams that a king hit himwith something other than wood, he will clothe him; if he hit him on hisback, he will pay off his debts; if he hit him on the earlobe, he will takehis daughter from him. Hitting may also be indicative of supplication; the one who hits a man (in a dream) is praying against him. In my view, hitting may indicate that the one who is hitting is strivingto harm the one who is hit.