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

28 passages from 4 sources, quoted as written, every one linked to its page.

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

As for the fig: al-Kirmani said that the vision of the fig is interpreted in several ways. If it is yellow, it is illness; the black is grief and regret; the green is a debt upon his neck, and it may be [good] for the seer if it is in its season, and it is not harmful if it is sweet.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 134–135

Abu Sa'id al-Wa'iz said: Whoever sees that he is eating figs generally, then it indicates abundant offspring; and the fig may be provision, and eating a little of it is provision without deceit.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 134–135

Most of the interpreters agreed that the fig is praiseworthy, because Allah the Exalted magnified it when He swore by it; the Mighty and Majestic said: "By the fig and the olive."

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 134–135

Some of the interpreters disliked it and mentioned that it indicates grief and sorrow, because of the saying of the Exalted in the story of Adam and Eve, peace be upon them: "And do not approach this tree" — it being the fig tree, according to the statement of some of the exegetes.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 134–135

It is said that every fig which the seer of the dream takes and eats indicates a thousand dirhams of wealth, up to ten thousand dirhams. And it is said that two indicate unminted wealth, that is, other than dirhams and dinars.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 134–135

Whoever sees that he ate figs, it indicates regret, and it may be an oath which the seer swears; and two indicate the dried kind called qatin: lawful wealth from which he benefits. And its white kind is more beautiful and better.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 134–135

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

(The fig) is abundant wealth, and its tree is a rich man of much wealth who is beneficial, to whom the enemies of Islam take refuge; and that is because the fig tree is a shelter for snakes.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 624–628

And eating of it indicates numerous offspring.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 624–628

And some of them said: the fig is provision that comes from the direction of Iraq, and eating a little of it is provision without deceit.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 624–628

And most of the interpreters hold that the fig is praiseworthy, because Allah the Exalted magnified it when He swore by it in the Quran.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 624–628

And a group of the interpreters disliked it, and they mentioned that it indicates worry and grief, and they took as evidence His saying, the Exalted, in the story of Adam and Eve, peace be upon them: "And do not approach this tree."

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 624–628

And some of them said that the fig is grief and regret for whoever eats it or obtains it.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 624–628

Kinds and conditions of Fig

eating figs

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

An anecdote: It is related that a man came to an interpreter and said, "I saw as though I were eating figs." He said, "You will receive a blow of a stick for the number of each fig." And so it was.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 268–269

Then after a while he saw the like of it again, so he came to him and related it to him a second time. He said to him, "There will erupt in you a boil for the number of each fig." And so it was.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 268–269

sycamore fig

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

In a dream it indicates lawful wealth with much profit for whoever obtains it.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 74

And whoever eats something of it, a pleasant provision comes to him.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 74

fig tree

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

The fig tree is a rich, great, beneficial man to whom his enemies resort, because the fig tree is the refuge of snakes; and perhaps it indicates sorrow.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 129

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

A Brother having his sister rich and sick, dreamt that before her doore grew a Figge-trée, from whence he gathered seven black Figs, and eate them, his sister deceased seven dayes after, and made him her heyre.

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Fifth Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

green figs and white grapes in winter

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

Green figs and white grapes in winter may indicate rains, and both of them being black indicates hail; that may be at night, while the first is by day. So whoever is accustomed to that in them, or sees it for the common people, or in the markets, or upon the rooftops, that is its interpretation.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 624–628

And distress in that does not leave him, because rain, along with its benefit and goodness, contains a hindrance for the traveler, and idleness for the craftsman who works under the open air, and downpour, and collapse of buildings, and mud.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 624–628

figs

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

Figs in their season are good, especially the white: out of season they are calumnies and detractions.

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The first Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

fig flour (fur)

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

As for al-fur, which is fig flour, it likewise signifies wealth.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 147

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