Bow in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin, al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin

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Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

It is in a dream a journey, a brother, a wife, a child, and a nearness to Allah the Exalted, because of His saying, the Exalted: "So he was at a distance of two bow-lengths or nearer."

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 275–276

(Whoever sees) a bow in a case, then his wife is pregnant.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 275–276

And whoever hands his wife a bow, and she was pregnant, she will bear him a girl.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 275–276

And if he sees his wife handing him the bow, then what she carries is a male child, because the boy is delivered over to his father and is with him in his shop, while the woman raises the girl and the girl stays close to her in the house.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 275–276

(Whoever sees) that he is drawing a bow and it bends with him, then his life will be long.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 275–276

And it is said: whoever draws the bow without an arrow, then it indicates travel.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 275–276

Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat

As for the bow, it is interpreted in several ways. Whoever sees that he is drawing a bow without an arrow, then it is interpreted as travel, and he will obtain a benefit and return with good.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 178–179

Whoever sees that he shot arrows with his bow, then a communication will reach him from the great ones.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 179–180

of a strong, powerful man through whose hands people's affairs are made easy; and his bow indicates hypocrisy, while a woman's bow indicates courage.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 248–249

And whoever sees that the string of his bow has snapped, then it indicates the non-completion of the journey, and perhaps from that journey there will be loss.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 178–179

Ibn Sirin said: Whoever sees that he shot a single arrow with a straight shot, then he speaks words of truth, and if

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 179–180

And whoever sees that a man gave him a bow, then it indicates the obtaining of a son or a brother.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 178–179

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

And the breaking of the bow is his incapacity to deliver the message.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 278–281

Whoever sees as though he drew an Arab bow, then he will travel to a noble man, a journey in honour; and if the bow was Persian, he will travel to a people of non-Arabs.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 281–285

And the bow is a woman who gives birth quickly, or a child, or a brother, or a journey, or an act of drawing near to Allah the Exalted.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 278–281

The snapping of the bowstring is an indication of being hindered from travel, and it indicates the divorce of the wife.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 281–285

And the bow in a case is a boy in his mother's womb. And the bow together with other weapons is authority and might.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 278–281

The breaking of the bow is an indication of the death of the wife, or the child, or the partner, or some of the relatives.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 281–285

Kinds and conditions of Bow

Arrow (of the bow)

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

Seeing it in a dream indicates a messenger and correspondence, and it indicates strength and victory over enemies.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 182–183

As for a single inverted arrow, if a woman sees it in the quiver, it is her husband's turning away from her.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 182–183

pellet bow

Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat

As for the pellet bow, it is interpreted as foul speech, distress, sorrow, and harming people, because the pellet bow is not praiseworthy in the path of religion.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 179–180

And whoever sees that in his hand is a pellet bow but he does not shoot pellets with it, then his sorrow will be less.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 179–180

bow maker

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

Seeing him in a dream indicates long life, or great might and victory over enemies.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 280

And the bow is a man who incites people to go out to raiding warfare.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 280

cotton-carder's bow (mindafah)

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

In a dream it is an ugly, repulsive woman, and its string is a loud, blustering man.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 330

And a man's carder's bow is a hypocritical, repulsive person.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 330

cotton carder's bow

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

(The cotton carder's bow) is an ugly, repulsive woman, and its string is a mocking, jesting man; and it is said that it is a hypocritical man.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 705–709

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