About The Islamic Dream Book

Search for what a snake or a flood means in a dream and you will find thousands of pages that give you a verdict and nothing to check it against. You are asked to trust a confident voice. The tradition itself is not like that. The people who did this work, from Ibn Sirin onwards, tied every reading to a verse, a hadith, a use of language or a lifetime of cases, and then added that only Allah knows the unseen.

We built this site to put that back. Each dictionary entry says what the reading rests on, shows the verses and hadith involved with their numbers, and tells you where scholars hold different views. The foundations section explains how to tell a true dream from the rest, and the series on the dreams recorded in the Qur'an and the Sunnah goes through the cases the Prophet ﷺ interpreted himself.

Who is behind it

We are an editorial team, not a panel of scholars. We read the classical dream literature, check every Qur'an verse and hadith we cite against the source text, and write it up in plain English. Where the tradition disagrees with itself, we say so. For anything you intend to act on, ask a qualified scholar.

We say this plainly because the subject invites the opposite. A confident stranger telling you what your dream means is exactly what the Sunnah warns against, and we would rather lose your trust honestly than earn it by pretending to authority we do not have. If you are a qualified scholar and see something we have got wrong, we want to hear from you, and we will correct it in public: see our corrections log.

What you will find here

• The dictionary: every entry labelled by what it rests on (Qur'an, Sunnah, classical dictionaries, or analogy) and by how the tradition leans.
• Dreams in the Sunnah and in the Qur'an: the recorded cases, told one by one.
• Foundations and guides: the three kinds of dreams, what to do after a good or bad one, istikhara, and recurring nightmares.
• The dream guide and journal: tools that run in your browser and keep what you write on your device.

What we will not do

We do not predict the future, give lucky numbers, issue fatwas, or interpret individual dreams by email. We do not tell you to act on a dream. Where the sources are thin, the entry says so rather than inventing something to fill the page. How we hold ourselves to this is set out in our editorial standards and method.

Get in touch

Write to hello@theislamicdreambook.com or use the contact page. Corrections are especially welcome.