Church 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

Among its own people, in a dream it indicates knowledge, works, asceticism, godly fear, and weeping.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 297

And it may indicate worry, misery, lying, calumny, and slander.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 297

And the church may indicate innovation (bid'ah), a house of injustice, amusement, gathering, play, and intimacy; and wine and impurities; and a wife and a slave-girl; and it indicates a ruler who judges tyrannically.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 297

So whoever enters a church in a dream, if he is unmarried, will marry, or will be granted a child, or will go astray after having been guided.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 297

Especially if he prostrated to the statues, or kissed them, or shared with them in an offering, or had a zunnar (belt of the non-Muslims) around his waist.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 297

And if in it he was remembering Allah the Exalted and rejecting their deeds, then he enjoins what is right and forbids what is wrong, each person according to his capacity and rank.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 297

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

So whoever sees a church, or a monastery, or the like of that, then its interpretation is a lying man who deceives people by his deeds, and there is no benefit in that.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 34

(And whoever sees) that he did in a church something that opposes its people, of that which does not oppose the Sharia, then it is a spiting of that man described; and it is said: good.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 34

(And whoever sees) that he is residing in something of that, then if he is of the people of righteousness it is good for him, and if he is of the people of corruption there is no good in it.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 34

And it is said: whoever sees that he did in a church something that agrees with its people, then it is the committing of crimes.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 34

(And whoever sees) that in something of these an adorned event occurred, then it is corruption in religion; and if it was something [otherwise], then it is the opposite of that.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 34

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

(The church) signifies the graveyard, the house of the prostitute, the wine-tavern, the abode of unbelief and heresies, the house of stringed instruments, piping and singing, the house of wailing, black mourning garb and lamentation, and Hell, and the house of one who has disobeyed his Lord, and the prison.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 547–549

And whoever sees himself in a church: if in it he is remembering Allah the Exalted, or weeping, or praying toward the Kaaba, then he will enter the burial ground of the dead for a visit or to pray over a funeral bier.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 547–549

And if his weeping is with lamentation, or he is carrying in it something that signifies sorrows, then he will be imprisoned in the prison.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 547–549

And if he sees himself dead in it, then he is in the Fire, confined with the people of disobedience.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 547–549

And if he enters it alive, giving the call to prayer or reciting the Quran: if he is engaged in jihad, he and those with him will prevail over the enemy's land.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 547–549

And if he is in a settled town, he will come upon his people in disobedience, or heresies and godlessness, and he will admonish them, remind them, argue against them, and uphold Allah's proof among them.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 547–549

Freud and Jung, a separate view

Or chapel--vagina.

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, Dream Psychology, ch. V Sex in Dreams

Kinds and conditions of Church

Church bell (naqus)

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

In a dream it is a broker, or a wife who has children, or a muezzin, and it may indicate fame and scandal.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 354

(And whoever sees) that he is striking the church bell, then he will spread among the people a false report.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 354

church bell / clapper

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

The church bell is interpreted as a hypocritical, lying man in whom there is no good at all.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 255–256

Whoever sees that he is striking a church bell, then he will keep company with a hypocritical, lying man.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 255–256

house turning into a church or synagogue

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

And whoever sees that his house has turned into a church of the Christians, then his statement concerning predestination resembles the statement of the Christians.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 771–773

And if he sees that his house has turned into a synagogue of the Jews, then his statement resembles the statement of the Jews.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 771–773

horn and church bell

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

If he sees that he is blowing a horn and striking a church bell, then it is a false report that has become widely known.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 774–777

If he sees that in the place of an unknown bathhouse which people enter, then in that quarter or place there is a woman whom people frequent.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 774–777

demolishing a church

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

And whoever sees that he is demolishing a church, a monastery, a hermitage, or the like, then he will be harsh upon the unbelievers and harm will befall them from him, and perhaps he is upright in the religion of Islam.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 109

church bell

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

If he sees himself as though striking the church bell, then he will spread among the people a false report.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 670–673

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