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Animals in dreams

Snakes, lions, horses, camels, birds and the other creatures that cross a dream.

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Animals in the Qur'an are characters. A wolf stands in Yaqub's fear and a cow in the king's vision, an ant warns its colony as Sulayman passes, and bees are given a revelation. That helps, and it also tempts: a snake in a dream is not a verse. The dictionaries usually read an animal as a person, a friend, a ruler or an enemy, depending on the creature, and the entries here tell you whenever that reading is only the dictionaries' habit.

Several of the creatures people fear most, the snake, the scorpion and the wolf, have no hadith that interprets them in a dream. Their cautionary lean comes from the dictionary tradition and from waking texts about harmful animals. We say that plainly and point you to the manners for a dream you did not like.

Animals A camel No verse or hadith interprets a dreamed camel. The Qur'an and Sunnah show it as a sign, a test and a bearer of... Contextual Qur'an Animals A cat No verse or hadith interprets a dreamed cat. The dictionaries read it as a thief or an untrustworthy household... Mixed Classical Animals A cow Yusuf read 7 fat cows and 7 lean ones as years of plenty and famine, and the Prophet read slaughtered cows as the... Contextual Qur'an Animals A dog No verse or hadith interprets a dreamed dog. The dictionaries read it by its job, a lowly enemy if it barks or... Mixed Classical Animals A donkey The Qur'an gives the donkey 3 unflattering comparisons and 2 kind roles, a mount and a sign. No verse or hadith... Mixed Qur'an Animals A fish No verse or hadith interprets a dreamed fish. The dictionaries read it as provision, and the Qur'an and the... Favourable Qur'an Animals A horse No hadith interprets a dreamed horse. The dictionaries read it as rank, strength and honour, and the Qur'an, which... Favourable Qur'an Animals A lion No verse or hadith interprets a dreamed lion. The dictionaries read it as a powerful person, a ruler or a strong... Contextual Classical Animals A scorpion No verse or hadith interprets a scorpion in a dream. The dictionaries read it from the animal's habits, as a hidden... Cautionary Classical Animals A snake No verse or hadith interprets a dreamed snake. The dictionaries read it as an enemy, stronger or weaker by its size... Cautionary Classical Animals A spider Qur'an 29:41 makes the spider's web the weakest of homes, a picture of false shelter. No verse or hadith reads a... Contextual Qur'an Animals A wolf No verse or hadith interprets a dream wolf. The dictionaries read it from the animal's habits, as a cunning thief or... Cautionary Classical Animals An elephant No verse or hadith interprets a dream elephant. The dictionaries read its size as power, often a ruler's, while the... Contextual Qur'an Animals Ants No verse or hadith reads a dream ant. The Qur'an makes the ant a caring warner (27:18) and a hadith calls a colony a... Contextual Qur'an Animals Bees No verse or hadith interprets a dream bee. The Qur'an says Allah inspired the bee and that its drink heals... Favourable Qur'an Animals Birds Birds have no single meaning. The Qur'an gives one reading (birds eating from a head, Yusuf and the baker), Umar... Contextual Qur'an Animals Sheep No verse or hadith interprets a dream sheep, but the Qur'an and Sunnah give the animal 4 roles: livelihood, trust,... Favourable Qur'an