Dictionary of Dreams

DICTIONARY OF DREAMS 363 deranged, it means that he will wake-up cured from his condition. Taking a ritual ablution prior to joining the sacred pilgrimage i n a dream means happiness, success, victory over one's enemy, paying one's debts, or reuniting with one's beloveds. Taking a ritual ablution before circumambulating the sacred House in Mecca in a dream means working for one's livelihood, serving rich people, or caring for one's wife and parents. If a sick person sees himself taking a ritual ablution then puttingon a new garment in a dream, it means that he will soon recover from his illness. Taking a ritual ablution in a dream also could mean the release of a prisoner, payment of one's debts, dispelling one's distress, or it could mean richness, prosperity, attending the sacred pilgrimage in Mecca, or having a successful business. If one does not put a new garment after taking his ritual ablution in the dream, it means that he will be able to lighten his burdens, or recover his good health. Walking into a pond, or descending a well, or stepping into a bathtub to take a bath in a dreammeans marriage. Washingoneselfwith soap duringsuch an ablution means dispensing of one's debts, or dispelling one's stress. Washing one's garment after taking a Gh.usul in a dream means correcting one's conduct, pursuing the correct religious life, paying one's debts, or washing away one's filth. If one sees a deceased person washing himself before his burial in a dream, it means relief for one's dependents and increase of their wealth after him. Giving a ritual ablution to a deceased person in a dream also means that someone will repent for his sins at the hand of the undertaker. If a deceased person asks someone to wash his clothes for him in a dream, it means that he needs someone to pray for him, or to intercede on his behalf before his Lord, or to pay charity for the benefit of his soul, or to pay his debts, or to fulfill his will, or to do himjustice. If one does fulfills the deceased person's wish and washes his clothes for him in the dream, it means the redemption of such a person. (Also see Ablution) Ritual Impurity: (See Excretion; Feces) Rituals of the pi lgrimage: (See 'Arafat; Circumambulation; Cradle of Ismifll; Ka'aba; Mina; Muzdalifa; Pelting stones; Responding; Sa'i; Station ofAbraham; 'Umrah) R iver: In a dream, a river represents a noble and a great person. Walking into a river in a dream means befriending or encountering such a person. Drinking from a river in a dreammeans trials, but if the water is clear, it means enjoying prosperity and a happy life. Jumping from one bank of a river to the other in a dream means escaping from adversities, dispelling distress or anguish, and it means winning victory over onu's enemy. I n a dream, a river also denotes travels. Swimming in a river in a dream means working in the government. If the river runs through the streets and markets, and ifone sees people bathing in it or taking their ritual ablution in it in one way or another it in adream, such a river then represents the justice of a ruler. If the river floods the streets, or runs through people's homes and damages their properties and personal belongings in the dream, then the river represents an unjust ruler, or it could represent an invading army. If a river flows from one's house and causes no harm to anyone in a dream, it represents one's good intentions or deeds. If one becomes a river in a dream, itmeans his death. Murkywaters in a dream signify worries and fearing a great man. Crossing from one side of a river into another in a dream means dispelling one's fears or worries. It also could mean severing one's association with such a manonly to meet with another one. Jumping from themiddle ofa river to the riverbank in a dream means escaping from the wrath of a ruler. Losing something in a rivermeans suffering harm and damages from a ruler. A river flowing inside one's house in a dream means prosperity. If one sees people drinking from it in thedream, it denotes his generosity and sharing ofhis wealth with needy people, or it could mean imparting knowledge to others.