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Sky, Earth & Elements in dreams

The sun, moon and stars, fire, wind, mountains, trees and the great forces of the natural world.

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The sun, moon and stars, fire and wind, mountains, trees and gardens are some of the Qur'an's favourite pictures, and Yusuf's first dream is made of sky. That gives these entries a firm starting point in the language of revelation, even when no hadith interprets the image in a sleeper's dream. Where the evidence is only the Qur'an's use of a word, the entry says so.

The cautionary ones are darkness, smoke and earthquake, and they are cautionary because the Qur'an uses them for trials and for the Hour, not because a dream of them predicts anything. The gentle ones, the dawn, the moon, a tree, a garden, borrow the opposite imagery. Read each as a convention with a source, never as a forecast.

Sky, Earth & Elements A garden The Prophet ﷺ read a dream of a green garden as the garden of Islam (Bukhari 7014). The Qur'an also tells of gardens... Favourable Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements A mountain The Qur'an's mountains are stakes that steady the earth, a yardstick of human smallness, and things that crumble or... Contextual Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements A tree The Qur'an compares a good word to a firm-rooted, fruiting tree and the Prophet ﷺ compared a believer to the date... Favourable Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements An earthquake The Qur'an uses shaking for the Hour, for believers tested at the Trench and for nations that were destroyed. No... Cautionary Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements Clouds No hadith interprets a cloud as such, but one cloud dream is told in the Sunnah, and the Qur'an gives clouds two... Mixed Sunnah Sky, Earth & Elements Darkness Darkness is the Qur'an's picture of error and being unable to find the way, and the Prophet ﷺ used it for oppression... Cautionary Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements Fire Fire guides Musa, serves travelers, spares Ibrahim and punishes in Hell, so a fire dream is read by what the fire... Mixed Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements Lightning No hadith interprets lightning in a dream, but the Qur'an twice calls it fear and hope in identical words, and uses... Mixed Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements Smoke The Qur'an's smoke covers people as a hardship and shades the damned. A Companion said the first of these was what... Cautionary Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements Stars The Qur'an's one star dream is Yusuf's 11 stars, closed by his family bowing. Elsewhere stars guide and adorn, and... Favourable Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements The dawn No verse or hadith interprets a dawn seen in sleep, but the Prophet's early true dreams came, in Aisha's words, like... Favourable Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements The moon The Qur'an calls the moon a derived light that waxes and wanes, and the Sunnah uses it as a picture of a radiant... Favourable Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements The sun The Qur'an records one sun dream, Yusuf's, closed when his parents bow to him, and the commentators read the sun as... Contextual Qur'an Sky, Earth & Elements Wind In the Qur'an the winds that carry rain and glad tidings are plural, and the wind that destroyed 'Ad is singular;... Contextual Qur'an