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Objects & Clothing in dreams
Gold, money, clothes, keys, rings, swords and the things the tradition reads as symbols.
The Prophet read a shirt as religion, two gold bracelets as two liars, and the keys put in his hand as the treasures of the earth. Those readings anchor most of the entries about clothing, gold and keys, and they show a method: objects are read by what they do. A key opens, a ring seals, a lamp lights, a sword cuts.
The longest entries here are the ones where the texts are scarce. A ring, a mirror, shoes and a car have no verse or hadith, and the entries say so. The car is an honest analogy to the mounts the Qur'an describes, and we mark it that way.
Objects & Clothing A car The classical dream books never mention cars. We read one by analogy to the mounts and ships they do cover, as the... Objects & Clothing A door A door reads as a way in or out, granted or withheld. Support comes from Surah Yusuf's doors, the Prophet's doors of... Objects & Clothing A key In the Prophet's own dream the keys of the earth's treasures were put in his hand (Bukhari 7013). The Qur'an keeps... Objects & Clothing A knife No verse or hadith interprets a knife in sleep. Ibrahim's dream involves slaughter yet never names a blade, and the... Objects & Clothing A ladder The Qur'an's stairway to the sky is something people claim and do not have, while the climbing dreams the Sunnah... Objects & Clothing A lamp The Qur'an uses a lamp for guidance (24:35) and for the Prophet himself (33:46), and the Prophet read lamp-like... Objects & Clothing A mirror No verse or hadith interprets a mirror in a dream. The mirror the Sunnah uses is a metaphor for a believing brother,... Objects & Clothing A ring No verse or hadith interprets a ring in a dream. The dictionaries read it by what a seal ring did, as authority, a... Objects & Clothing A shirt The Prophet ﷺ read shirts in a dream as religion, with length as the measure (Bukhari 23). Surah Yusuf supplies the... Objects & Clothing A sword The one sword dream the Sunnah records is the Prophet's own: a sword that broke, then came back better, which he... Objects & Clothing A treasure The Prophet saw keys to the earth's treasures in sleep, and the Qur'an shows treasure as a kept mercy, a temptation... Objects & Clothing Gold In the Prophet's own dreams gold is a palace of Paradise (Bukhari 7024) and also two bracelets that frightened him,... Objects & Clothing Green clothes No text interprets green clothes. The reading leans favourable because the Qur'an's Paradise garments are green and... Objects & Clothing Money No verse or hadith interprets money in a dream, so the dictionaries' readings rest on convention. The Qur'an calls... Objects & Clothing Pearls The Qur'an uses pearls for the beauty of people in Paradise, for adornment, and for a favour drawn from the sea. No... Objects & Clothing Perfume No verse or hadith interprets perfume in a dream. The Qur'an and Sunnah use musk as the scale for the best of... Objects & Clothing Shoes No verse or hadith interprets shoes in a dream. The dictionaries read a pair of shoes as a spouse or partner and as... Objects & Clothing White clothes No sound hadith interprets white clothes in a dream, and the one report that does, about Waraqah, is graded weak....