The Number of Letters

A Faqeeh said to me: I dreamt that a man gave me an Ihram (pilgrim's garments). I said: You will gain four Dirhams today. I looked at the letters of the word Ihram, and found five letters; I then dropped the Vowel (Alif) which left four. And it turned out as I said. One of the people told me that his father said: I dreamt that my father gave me a handful of dates, in which I found 49 dates. I interpreted it as how long my life would be. He said: And he died when he was 49 years old. I have referred above to the dream of the hunchback in whose hand was a rose, and he was dancing and saying: A rose, a rose and half a rose. What matters here is how long the roses last, which turned out to be 100 days, and the dream came true as he said. A man of good character said to me: One of my relatives saw a man (in his dream) and he said to him: Your lifespan will brand you. Then I lay down and he took a rod to brand me with it on my thigh. I uncovered my thigh and saw the number 54 branded on it. I said to him: This is either hours, days, weeks, months or years. And he died after 54 months.