Gourd 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 gourd, it is interpreted in several ways. Al-Kirmani said: seeing a gourd is interpreted as elevation, especially if he sees it on a tree; and seeing a gourd may indicate his becoming related by marriage to someone.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 233

And it is said: whoever sees that there is a gourd in his house in its season, it indicates blessing and increase of wealth; if he is sick he will be cured, if he is a slave he will be freed, if he is an unbeliever he will embrace Islam, if he is a traveller he will return safely, and if he is a transgressor Allah will accept his repentance and his need will be fulfilled.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 233

Jabir al-Maghribi said: seeing a gourd is interpreted as a learned man of good character and gentle nature.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 233

Abu Sa'id al-Wa'iz said: seeing a gourd, if it is gathered, is interpreted as the gathering of scattered things; and if it is eaten, it is interpreted as knowledge in proportion to how much he ate of it. Best is eating it when it is cooked, and some interpreters disliked eating it raw and spoke against it, because it is interpreted as "al-qar'" (baldness/scab).

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 233

Some interpreters said: whoever sees that he is selling gourds, then he will follow the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), for what came in the authentic hadith that he (peace be upon him) used to love al-dubba', which is the gourd, and would seek it out from the bowl.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 233

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

As for the gourd, which is the yaqtin: its plant is a learned man, or a beneficial physician who is close to the people and blessed. And it is said that it is a poor man.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 642–647

And whoever obtains a gourd obtains good, and he will fight a man and quarrel with him and prevail.

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

And whoever sees that he is taking shade under a gourd plant, or under a leaf growing on its vine, then he will find companionship in place of his loneliness, and he will meet his affair with a good outcome for him, and with a peaceful settlement between him and whoever disputes with him.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 780–783

And the yaqtin, for the sick person, is healing.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 642–647

And if he sees that he is eating gourd cooked, in pieces, with nothing mixed into it of what would change it from its substance and its taste — such as spices, or anything whose kind is disliked in interpretation, because spices are worry and grief — if he was eating of the gourd cooked and it had not been altered from its taste, then something will return to him that he had lost of himself, or of his wealth, or of his religion, or of his worldly life, or of his people, or of the soundness of his body; or a weakness will depart and his mind and his intellect concerning it will return to him after they had turned away from him; or a delight of the eye that had escaped him will return to him; or a reunion of a household that had been scattered from him; or the retention of a knowledge that he had forgotten and which had left him from his memory, and his mind and his knowledge in it will return to him — in accordance with the amount he ate of the cooked gourd, and according to what I have described of the pleasantness of its taste, and its smallness or abundance.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 780–783

And the pleasanter and softer its taste is, the more so will the matter be for him regarding what returns to him of those blessings — weaker or stronger.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 780–783

Kinds and conditions of Gourd

gourd (pumpkin)

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

In dream it is a learned man, or a good, elevated, weighty man who is close to people and light in expense; and for the sick person it is healing, and it is the best of cooked dishes in dream vision.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 283

So whoever eats of it cooked, something he had lost will return to him — of his religion, or his self, or his beloved, or his child.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 283

gourd and cucumber seeds

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

As for the seeds of gourd and cucumber and the like, they are wealth from which benefit is derived.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 233

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