Fruit 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

Seeing it in a dream, if it is sweet, indicates provision, benefit, and useful knowledge.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 52

Fruit in a dream signifies marriage, for the words of the Most High: "They and their spouses are in delight."

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 264

The sour kind, for one whom eating it suits, is likewise; and for one whom it does not suit, it is unlawful wealth and an increase in his illness.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 52

And it is said that fresh fruits are provision that has no permanence, because they spoil quickly, while dried fruits are abundant, lasting provision.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 264

As for what is not [sweet] among fruits, eating it and owning it indicates debt, or overcoming non-Arabs among women and men, or slave women, or the mute among those.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 52

And it is said that fruits, for the poor, mean wealth, and for the rich, an increase of money.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 264

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

Fruit is lawful wealth, in proportion to its scarcity or abundance.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 633–637

Whoever gathers up fruit or other things from beneath a tree, then he is occupied with something unlawful, or seeking something to which he has no right, and laying down unjust regulations.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 633–637

Plucking fruit from the tree indicates obtaining knowledge from a scholar, and gathering it up from the base of the tree is a quarrel with a man.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 633–637

It is said that fruits are, for the poor, wealth; and for the rich, an increase in wealth, because of the words of the Exalted: "and fruit and pasture, as provision for you and your livestock"; and for the fearful, safety, for Allah the Exalted said: "they will call therein for every kind of fruit, in security."

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 633–637

It is said that fresh fruits are sustenance that does not endure, because they spoil quickly, and dried ones are abundant, lasting sustenance.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 633–637

Whoever sees as though fruit is being scattered over him, then he will become famous for righteousness and goodness.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 633–637

Kinds and conditions of Fruit

lote fruit (nabq)

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

As for the lote fruit (nabq), in whatever aspect it appears it is ready wealth, and none of the fruits equals it in this regard, especially when it is fresh and sweet-tasting.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 136–137

Sa'id al-Wa'iz said: The lote fruit is provision coming from the direction of Iraq, and it is wealth without deficiency. Its moist state is stronger than its dried state, and the yellowness of its colour does no harm, because of the nobility of its tree.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 136–137

pickled fruit and the like

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

Seeing it in a dream indicates apostasy from the religion, or adopting the character of the corrupt, or squandering wealth, or breaking a covenant.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 335

And that which is chopped up finely is true speech that is not accepted.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 335

fruit (in general)

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

Daniel said: Every fruit seen in its proper season and eaten from is an indication of the obtaining of wealth and benefit, except for what one sees of it that agrees with his own temperament.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 138–139

Whoever sees fruit out of its season, or eats from it, then it indicates a decrease in his wealth; and if there is in the dream something praiseworthy, that does him no harm.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 138–139

fruit seller

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

He, in a dream, is a man entrusted with people's wealth and their secrets, and in interpretation he is praiseworthy so long as he does not take a price for the fruits.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 264

And seeing him indicates beneficial gatherings, or one who possesses the news of kings.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 264

fruits out of season

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

is ugly; and out of its proper season it is disliked in its outcome. And whatever has a root that indicates something disliked, then in its coming forward it is anxiety and sorrow, and out of its proper time it is a beating or an illness.

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

such as the fig, because Adam (peace be upon him) covered himself with its leaves, and he was rebuked at its tree while he was grief-stricken and regretful; so that clung to the fig at all times, and likewise clung to its tree and its leaves.

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

dried-fruit seller (grocer)

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

He is in a dream a trustworthy man who knows people's secrets, and with whom wealth has accumulated from men of consequence, because trees are men of consequence and the fruit of trees is their wealth.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 265

And the dried-fruit seller, if he has dried fruits with him in leather bags and sacks, then it is the wealth of men who deposited it with him in secret for him to safeguard, because the leather bag, the sacks, and the purse in interpretation are the secret.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 265

sweet fruit

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

And every sweet fruit apart from what I have described — such as that in which yellowness of colour predominates, or which is sour, or which has not ripened at its known season — then it is provision, wealth and good; and its permanence is according to the permanence of that fruit among the fruits, and the lightness of its cost, the earliness of its appearance, and its benefit to its owners.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 633–637

Except for black grapes and figs, for there is no good in them in any case.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 633–637

azarole (hawthorn fruit)

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

In a dream, if it is yellow it indicates illness, in proportion to its colour and the intensity of its yellowness.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 142

And whatever of it is green is not illness.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 142

Service tree fruit (ghubayra')

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

In a dream it is scant sustenance, and its tree is a non-Arab man.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 253

And it is said: a man who is beneficial to people, possessing straitened means and meagre sustenance.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 253

fruits

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

And whatever of the fruits is not cut off in any season, having no particular time and no substance that spoils it, that is good — like dates and raisins.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 620–623

And whatever of them is found at one time and absent at another, they are good in their proper season, except those of them which have a disliked name or a disliked report.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 620–623

fruit trees

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

Orange trées, Pomegranate trees, Apple trées, and Pear trées, must be accounted of as their fruits, wherof we spoke in our first book, in the spéech of meates.

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

ghayra fruit

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

As for the ghayra fruit, eating it indicates the obtaining of wealth and benefit from non-Arabs.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 136–137

Also in the sources

doum fruit (muql) · fruit-picker/offender · sucking fruit · green fruit out of season

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