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Building/construction in a dream: meaning in al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin

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

Seeing in a dream a building newly erected upon the earth is a benefit in this world, private or general, in proportion to what he saw of it.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 29–30

And perhaps the interpretation of building is a man's consummation of marriage with his wife; so if he builds something, it indicates the matter of women.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 29–30

If he sees that his house or his dwelling has expanded by a good measure, then he is in expansiveness of his worldly life.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 29–30

But if it exceeds its due measure, then a people will enter that house without permission, in a calamity, or a wedding, or a lamentation.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 29–30

(And whoever sees) that he is constructing a building, then he will gather his relatives, his friends, and his troops.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 29–30

And if he is a ruler, then it is the return of his state and the fullness of his joy, an increase in his strength and the elevation of his affairs, in proportion to the height of the building and its soundness.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 29–30

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

It has several aspects. Whoever sees that he is building something in one of the three mosques, then he is performing a good deed accepted before Allah, and it indicates loftiness of rank, the attainment of prestige, and empowerment in worldly affairs.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 110

Whoever sees that he is building a ship, then he will purchase a slave girl and raise her.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 111

And whoever sees that he is erecting a building for the sake of Allah, such as a mosque, a minaret, a khanqah, or the like, then it is an indication of the soundness of his religion and reward in his hereafter.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 110

Whoever sees that he is building what ought not to be built, then he is burdening himself with what he has no capacity for.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 111

And it is said: whoever sees something of that built up, then it is an increase in Islam and a strengthening in religion, and perhaps it is righteousness with regard to the owner of that place.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 110

Al-Kirmani said: Whoever sees that he is erecting a solid building, if he is among the seekers of the Hereafter, then he will do a righteous deed, for His saying, the Exalted: "Is he who founded his building upon piety from Allah and [His] good pleasure..." the verse; and if he is among the seekers of this world, then his worldly affairs will prosper and his condition therein will endure.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 111

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