Trees

Trees symbolise men in personality and character. If a person dreams that he has received fruit or leaves of a specific tree, it means he will receive abundant wealth from such a person who resembles that particular tree in personality and character.

Trees are indicative of a king; their leaves represent his troops andweapons and their fruits represent his wealth. Nebuchadnezzar dreamtof an intensely green tree with its roots firmly implanted in the groundand its branches in the heavens; on its branches were all the birds of thesky and in its shade were the wild creatures of the earth. Daniel saidto him: The tree is you and the birds and its branches are your childrenand your troops and your family. The wild animals dwelling in its shadeare your subjects. A tree may also be indicative of a father or master, and its leaves andfruits are his wealth. Or it may be indicative of his wife, with its leavesrepresenting her bracelets and its fruit representing her children. All itmay be indicative of slaves, children and animals because of the benefitsthat there are in it, and its leaves represent their garments because theleaves cover the tree and were it not for them it would be burnt bythe sun. A tree may also be indicative of livelihood, with its fruits andleaves representing wealth. Or it may be indicative of a scholar, withits leaves representing his books and its fruits representing his branchesof knowledge. Or it may be indicative of a worshipper, with its leavesand fruit representing his supererogatory acts of worship. Trees are alsoindicative of wealth because they and their fruits are a kind of wealth.The bark of the tree refers to inheritance from the dead. If a person dreams that he sees trees growing with fragrant plantsaround them, that is indicative of men entering the place where they aregrowing in order to weep and offer condolences. If a person dreams that he possessed a tree or sought its shade or ate of its fruits or benefited fromit, he will get some benefit shortly from the person indicated by the tree. You may work out the character of the person whom the tree indicatesby referring to the situation of the tree. If it is easily accessible with nothorns, and the taste of its fr uit is good and its fragrance is pleasant, thenthe person it refers to is easy - going and of good character. If the tree isdifficult to reach or it has thorns or its fruit is bitter or its fragrance isunpleasant or rotten or if it does not bear fruit, then the person it refersto is a bad character and his earnings are Haraam. If the tree has thornsbut the dreamer needs its thorns in order to benefit from it by using itto encircle his garden or because he wants the colocynth for medicinalpurposes or he wants the sour pomegranates, and he finds everythinghe wanted, that indicates that he will achieve his aims. That is similarto the one who goes to a miser and gets from him what he wants. If thedreamer finds a tree without thorns or he finds that the colocynth o r sourpomegranates taste sweet, that is a bad sign. You have to pay attention to the tree that you see in your dream, withregard to its origin. A pregnant woman dreamt that she took a coconutand found it very heavy. Shaykh Shihaab - ud - Deen said to her: You willgive birth to a child whose origins lie in India. Another woman dreamtthat and he said to her: You will have some trouble from a Sindhi slavewoman. A man said to him: I dreamt that there was a palm tree in my houseon which there was fruit. He said to him: If you are single, you aregoing to marry a noble woman or a woman whose origin is in the Hejaz,and if you are not single, a man from that region will come to you. Andit all turned out as he said.A man said: I dreamt that I went inside an olive tree an d I broughtout leaves of different colors. He said to him: You will go to the landof the Byzantines and bring from it garments of different colors. Then if what you took of leaves was good, you will benefit, otherwise youwill not. A man dreamt that in Aden he found a tree with a nice scent whichgrew very tall in Aden. He said to him: Did there come to you after thatan envoy from the ruler of Egypt? He said: Yes. His evidence was that that tree only grows in Egypt and the factthat it was tall indicates that h e was an envoy because the words of theenvoy are important. If he dreams that he planted a tree, if he planted it out of season or ina place with no water or a place where it cannot live without irrigation,the person indicated may go through troubles or ev en die. A man said: Idreamt that I planted fragrant plants in a land where there was no water. He said: You are detaining a man and you fear that he may die. He said: You are right. Another man dreamt that and he said: You want to havea child from a woman who miscarries easily. Another man dreamt thatand he said: You think that you are doing good but you are an evildoer. And it was all as he said.If he plants it in season and there is water there to irrigate it, then heis going to appoint a man whose character is like the character of thattree. But if the planter is a king and the tree is of a useful type then he isgoing to appoint for the people one from whose knowledge and wisdomthey will benefit. But if the tree is bad, he will appoint for them one whowill harm them. If it is planted by a scholar, he will write a book for thepeople, because the one who eats the fruits of the tree finds sweetnessand healing, and the people will benefit from what that book contains ofknowledge. If it is planted by a worshipper, he will teach a student fromwhom the people will benefit, and the tree is indicative of the deeds ofthe worshipper, because the tree prostrates, which is the movement ofits shade, and it glorifies Allah (Tasbeeh) which is the sound made whenthe wind blows through its leaves. If a person dreams that he uprooted a tree, if he is a king then hewill kill the person indicated, otherwise he will leave his wife. One ofthe dream interpreters said: or he will break a vow or break an oath ofallegiance or a covenant. He said: If the king cuts down a tree with anaxe, he will issue decrees against the people that will destroy them, andif he cuts it down with a sickle, he will make demands on them that theycannot fulfill, meaning that the axe uproots it completely and the sickleleaves its roots intact. A man dreamt that he cut down an olive tree that was the only one inthe land. Shaykh Shihaab-ud-Deen said to him: Are you trying to stopoil that was given as a Waqf to the mosque? He said: Yes. A man dreamt that he sought shade under an apple tree and that hebenefited from it, and he was sick so he started drinking again and washealed. He said to him: You were benefiting from drinking apple juice,but you stopped. So he started drinking it again and was healed. Another man said: I dreamt that they cut down the grapevine thatI used to prostrate to in my dream. He said to him: You used to drinkwine, then you repented from it. Another man said: I dreamt that my throat was blocked and I couldnot breathe, so I cut down a mulberry tree and put it in my throat, andit stopped. He said to him: You will swallow something that causesswelling in the throat and you will only recover by drinking mulberryjuice. And it turned out as he said. If a person dreams that he is up a tree, he will be safe from what hewas watching out for. If he dreams that he is lying down on trees, thenumber of his children will increase. Shaykh Shihaab-ud-Deen said: If he dreams that he possesseda group of trees, if he is the king he will take possession of lands orarmies or slaves, commensurate with what he saw in his dream. If he isa scholar he will acquire new knowledge according to what he saw. If heis a worshipper then the trees represent his deeds, or they may representwealth, children, slaves, livestock, property or trades. For craftsmenand the poor, that represents a few Dirhams, according to the type oftrees. A similar ruling applies to things that may be collected one byone, such as safflowers, cucumbers and so on. That indicates that oneland after another will succumb to the king and his army, lands thatcontain citadels. For the merchant it is indicative of profitable business;for the one who is single it is indicative of a spouse and children; forcraftsmen it represents abundant income, if he dreams that he possessesit at the beginning of the season; but if he sees it at the end of the season,then it indicates the opposite. Olives represent a noble woman, because Allah called the olive treeblessed. If a person dreams that he is holding onto its leaves, Then he has grasped the most trustworthy handhold.[Al-Baqarah 2:256] Some of them said that if the tree is yellow, it is indicative of grief,otherwise it signifies wealth. A man said to Ibn Sireen: I dreamt thatI found some oil at the bottom of the olive tree. He said to him: Whatis your story? He said: I was taken captive and enslaved when I was achild, then I was released and I bought a slave woman. He said: She isyour mother. So he asked her and found that she was his mother. Another man said: I dreamt that I went to the base of an olive treeand squeezed it and drank its water. He said to him: Fear Allah, for yourwife is your sister through breastfeeding. If he dreams that an olive tree grows on his head, he will become ascholar. One of them said: An apricot tree is indicative of a man who issickly. Another one said: A quince tree is indicative of a wise man who isnot benefitting from his wisdom. A banana tree is indicative of a man of satisfactory attitude and goodcharacter. If it grows in the house,that is indicative of an increase in thenumber of children, and that is, "The banana tree with fruits piled one above another." that is mentioned in the Holy Qur'an. [Al - Waaqi'ah 56:29] An almond tree represents a stranger. A walnut tree represents a blind ma n who is well off but miserly. A date palm represents a noble and useful scholar or a son who isreligiously committed. A man said to Ibn Sireen: I dreamt that in myhouse there were six palm trees; five were green and one was dry. Hesaid to him: You pray bu t you do not pay Zakaah. A young man said to him: I dreamt that I saw the Prophet (Peace be upon him) andit was as if he was in a swampy land with palm trees, beside whichthere was land that was good but had no vegetation. He said to me: Do you know who it belongs to? I said: No. He said: This belongs toImru'l - Qays ibn Hajar (the poet). Take these palm trees and plant themin that good land. I did as he instructed me, then he said to me: Do youcompose poetry? I said: No. He said: You will compose poetry like thatof Imru'l - Qays.If he dreams that date stones become palm trees, then that indicatesthat a man of humble background will benefit a great deal or that his sonwill become a scholar.