Dictionary of Dreams

DICTIONARY OF DREAMS 343 blessings, profits and longevity. Receiving a good promise from one's enemy, or opponent in a dream means evil. Receiving a bad promise from one's enemy in a dreammeans good. A promise in a dream is a good deed. The recipient of the promise in wakefulness is the one who makes that pledge in the dream. Prompting: (Incite; Induce; Lure; Urge) To urgesomeone to feed the hungryor to do good deeds in a dream means repentance of a sinner, or attracting one's good luck, or following the exemplary conduct ofGod's Prophet upon whom be peace. Proof: To prove something in a dream is a testimony ofone's right. To argue and prove one's case in a dream means a dispute with a colleague, whereby the one who wins the case in the dream is at fault in wakefulness. Property taxes: (Also see Cauterize; Tax collector; Taxes) Prophesying: (See Perspicacity) Prophet's mosque (uwbp): (See Masjid) Prophet: In a dream, each one of God's prophets, upon all of them be peace and blessings, is like a compassionate father toward his son, who is trying to save his child from the hell ofthisworld and the hell-fire in the hereafter. In a dream, a prophet also represents a teacher, a tutor, a shaikh, a warning, or glad tidings. If one sees them standing in a stately form, or if one prays behind them, or follows them on the road, or eats something from their delicious food, or drinks from their drink, or if one is anointed with their perfume, or learns something from them, or acquires a particular knowledge from them in a dream, it demonstrates his trueness, faith in God's oneness, following His Messenger and being faithful to his traditions. Otherwise, if one walks before them, or leads them into a narrow lane, or stones them, or mocks them, or argues with them in a dream, it means that he is an innovator and a heedless person. This could also mean that he will be persecuted by his superiors, for a prophet in a dream also represents a ruler or a king, and God's prophets are in truth the guardians of the souls, and they are kings in this worId and in the hereafter. A prophet in a dream also represents a religious scholar, because religious scholars are the heirs of the prophets, upon all of them be peace. Religious scholars also know God's prophets better than thecommon people. They understand their message and follow their traditions ofglorifyingGod's Oneness, devotion, piety, prayers, charity, acting upon what they know and admonishingothers to follow the path oftruth and righteousness. Aprophet in a dream also represents one's superior, a preacher, a righteous Imam, a conscientious teacher and a caller to God Almighty. Seeing any ofGod's prophets lookinggracious, stately and courtly in a dream also represents his people's devotion, or that a major and a positive change will take place among his followers. If such a prophet looks spurious, unhappy in a dream, or ifhe appears in a statethat does not befit God's prophets, it means that his followers in the world have deviated from his path and created their own religion, opposing his commands, falsifying and interpreting his message to their own liking and abusing his admonition. If one claims to be a prophet in a dream, it means that he will become known in his field, Or if he qualifies, he may become a ruler, a judge, a teacher or a caller to God Almighty, commandingwhat is good and forbidding what is evil. Otherwise, it means that he will be inflicted with a great calamity because of a falsehood he fosters, or innovations he practices. If one becomes a messenger in a dream or a caller to God Almighty. and if someone hearkens to him and accepts his message in the dream, it means that he will rise in rank. Otherwise, it means that he will become a broker, a liar, a defrauder, a swagger, depending on his level of knowledge, or it could mean that he will be struckwith a major calamity in his life. Such a calamity will be of the same caliber, degree and nature that a messenger of God Almighty may have suffered from his own people. Seeingone ofGod's prophets in a dream alsomeans livingthe experience oftime, space and