Dream of Yusuf
العربية
Paper in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin, al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin
Interpret my dream18 passages from 4 sources, quoted as written, every one linked to its page.
attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam
If he sees that he is writing on a sheet of paper, then it is a denial of blood between him and the people.
Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 662–666
And if he sees that the imam gave him a sheet of paper, then he will fulfil for him a need which he submits to him.
Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 662–666
And paper indicates a matter that is confused for him, because of His saying, exalted be He: "you make it into sheets, disclosing some of it."
Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 662–666
Kinds and conditions of Paper
paper / sheets
Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat
As for papers (sheets), they are interpreted in several ways. Al-Kirmani said: the vision of paper, for people of righteousness, is interpreted as knowledge and gnosis, and for people of corruption as its opposite.
al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 197
Abu Sa'id al-Wa'iz said: Whoever sees that someone gave him a sheet of paper, then a need of his that is submitted to him will be fulfilled.
al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 197
paper sheet
Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam
Whoever sees in a dream that he is writing on a sheet of paper, then he is denying [things] in what is between him and the people.
Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 287
And it is said that the writer is a man who is worried and distressed, and he is in perplexity, [but] Allah Most High guides him, and by it he escapes from that grief.
Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 287
pointed paper hat
Freud and Jung, a separate view
Since I have learned that God is omniscient, the dream signifies that I know everything in spite of the hat which I am made to wear.”
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, The Interpretation of Dreams, ch. VI The Dream-Work
running through a bundle of papers
Freud and Jung, a separate view
Running through the bundle of papers with the repetition of the name, corresponds to a subordinate but well-recognised feature of the marriage ceremonies—the reading aloud of the congratulatory telegrams which have arrived irregularly, and which, of course, are all addressed to the same name.
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, The Interpretation of Dreams, ch. VI The Dream-Work
paper maker
Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam
He is in a dream a man who assists the people of stratagems.
Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 292
rag-and-paper collector
Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam
He is the one who gathers rags and paper from doorways and crevices. Seeing him in a dream indicates the amassing of wealth from the lawful and the unlawful, and it indicates one who divulges secrets and who asks about what does not concern him.
Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 293
Paper-seller / scribe (warraq)
Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam
He, in a dream, is a man who teaches people stratagems, because writing is a stratagem.
Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 371
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