Peacock 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

In a dream it is a foreign (non-Arab) woman of beauty and wealth, but ill-omened; her beauty is its colour, its feathers are her wealth, its slaughter is her death, and eating its flesh is wealth he inherits. The male peacock is a foreign king.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 226

(Whoever sees) that he is fraternising with a peacock, then he will fraternise with the kings of the non-Arabs, and it indicates a people with bright faces and laughing teeth. And it has been said: the peacock is a non-Muslim, foreign woman.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 226

(Whoever sees) that he has caught a peacock or taken possession of it, then he will gain power over a foreign king. And that which combines the peacock and the dove is a procurer for men and women.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 226

(Whoever sees) that he has taken possession of a female peacock, then he will obtain wealth and a child. The peacock indicates, for whoever owns it, arrogance and vanity over comeliness and beauty. Its vision may also indicate slander, delusion, lying, reliance upon enemies, the vanishing of blessings, going out from ease into misery and from abundance into constriction. And seeing it indicates jewellery, fine garments, the crown, beautiful wives and lovely children.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 226

(Whoever sees) that he is eating the flesh of a peacock, then his wife will die and he will inherit her wealth. And it has been said: he will obtain wealth from a foreign woman.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 226

(Whoever sees) that he has obtained some of the feathers of a peahen, then he will obtain wealth from a woman or by reason of a woman.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 226

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

As for the peacock: Ibn Sirin said the male of it is a non-Arab king. So whoever sees that he has a male peacock, then it indicates his standing with a non-Arab king. And the female of it is a non-Arab woman possessing wealth, retinue and servants, whom he will marry and from whom he will obtain children.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 217–218

Al-Kirmani said: Whoever sees a peacock and a dove close together, then it indicates that he brings men and women together for corruption.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 217–218

Daniel said: The female peacock is a corrupt woman. And whoever sees that he is eating the flesh of a female peacock, then it indicates the obtaining of wealth from a corrupt woman in proportion to what he ate of her flesh.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 217–218

And whoever sees that a peacock spoke with him, then it indicates the obtaining of a great authority, such that people marvel at him.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 217–218

Jabir al-Maghribi said: Whoever sees a female peacock that flew out of his house, then he will divorce his wife or she will die. And whoever sees that he slaughtered a peacock, then he will have intercourse with a virgin slave girl, or he will triumph over his enemy.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 217–218

Isma'il ibn al-Ash'ath said: The peacock's chick is a son, and its nest is a daughter. And whoever sees that a male peacock flew from his hand, then he will part from the service of a king. And it is said the peacock is a person possessing retinue and servants.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 217–218

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

(The peacock) The male of them is a non-Arab king of noble lineage, and the female of them is a beautiful non-Arab woman possessing wealth and beauty.

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

And that which combines the peacock and the dove is a man who is a procurer for women and men. And it is said the peacock indicates handsome people with laughing teeth.

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

(And it is related) that a man came to Ibn Sirin and said: I saw as if my wife handed me a peacock. So he said to him: If your dream is true, you will buy a slave girl, and there will be returned to you toward the price of that slave girl, out of debts, seventy-six dirhams, and that will be with your wife's consent. The man said: May Allah have mercy on you, yesterday it happened exactly as you have interpreted, and they returned to me of the debts precisely the amount you said. So it was said to Ibn Sirin: How did you know that? He said: The female peacock (ṭāwūsah) is the slave girl, and "ṭāwūs" means "from the debts" in the speech of the Nabateans; and I derived the number of the dirhams from the letters of "ṭāwūs" by the reckoning of the alphabetic numerals: the ṭāʾ is nine, the alif one, the wāw six, and the sīn sixty.

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

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