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

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

As for the dove, it is interpreted in several ways. Al-Kirmani said: the dove is interpreted as a woman or a slave girl.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 216–217

A rare account: It is related that a man came to Sa'id b. al-Musayyab and said: I saw upon the parapets of the mosque a beautiful white dove, and behold, a falcon came and carried her off. He said: If your dream is true, then al-Hajjaj will marry the daughter of 'Abd Allah b. Ja'far, because the dove is a woman, and her whiteness is noble lineage, and the falcon is an Arab king, and that can be none but al-Hajjaj. And the dream came out just as he had interpreted it.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 264–265

Whoever sees that a dove has been given to him as a gift, then he will gain a benefit from a distant land, and he will see delight of the eye and good.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 216–217

Whoever sees that he is shooting a dove with a pellet, then he will slander a woman.)

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 216–217

Whoever sees that he has obtained some of its flesh, then he will obtain wealth; and the young of doves are virgin women, and perhaps the young one is a child.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 216–217

Whoever sees that a dove came to him deliberately, good news will come to him from some place; and the best of doves to see is the white one.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 216–217

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

(The dove) She is the righteous, beloved woman who does not seek a substitute for her husband, and Noah (peace be upon him) prayed for her.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 405–409

It also indicates sudden news, the messenger, and the letter, because it conveys news in a letter. The origin of this is that Noah sent the crow to find out for him the state of the water, but it found a carcass floating on the water and busied itself with it; so he sent the dove and it brought him a green leaf, and he prayed for it. So for whoever is in hardship, or has someone absent, it is glad tidings if it alights upon him or comes flying to him — unless he be sick and it alights upon his head, for then it is the dove of death, especially if it be of the turtledoves and it cooed mournfully at his head in the dream. The dove may also be a daughter, and the best of doves is the green one.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 405–409

Whoever sees that he owns a great, uncountable number of them will obtain spoils and good; and their eggs are daughters and slave-girls.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 405–409

Whoever sees a person's dove, then he is an adulterous man; and if he scatters feed for doves and calls them to him, then he is a procurer.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 405–409

The dove's cooing is a man's reproaching of a woman. The white ones among them are religion, the green ones piety, the black ones are chieftains among women and men, and the piebald ones are people of confused affairs.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 405–409

Whoever has a dove flee from him and it does not return to him, then he will divorce his wife, or she will die.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 405–409

Freud and Jung, a separate view

Into this flies the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove for the impregnation of the Mother of God.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. IV The Song of the Moth

Kinds and conditions of Dove

ring dove

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

It, in a dream, is a lying child.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 266

And it is said that it is a woman who is neither companionable nor righteous, a liar, shrill-tongued, given to raving, and with a deficiency in her religion.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 266

cooing of a dove

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

And the cooing of a dove is a woman who is a reciter of the Quran, a Muslim, and of noble standing.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 195–196

dove (dubsi)

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

(The dubsi dove) is a sincere man who admonishes and preaches.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 392–399

cooing of a dove (hadil)

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

It, in a dream, is a man who is a jurist, of noble lineage, refined, dutiful, gentle, of little wealth, with many followers, a chief; and its voice is knowledge and jurisprudence.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 364

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