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Physician 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 he is the scholar, just as the mufti and the jurist is the physician.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 226–227

So if he sees that a physician treated him, then his body will become healthy.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 226–227

And if he sees that a scholar is admonishing him, then he will expel doubt and hypocrisy from his heart and set his religion right.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 226–227

And the physician is the jurist, and everyone who has a dispute, if he sees physicians in his dream, then their indication is the indication of those who dispute with them.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 226–227

(And whoever sees) a sick man and sees him in his dream, then he has seen someone disputing with him, and his indication is the indication of the one who practices medicine.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 226–227

(And whoever sees) that a physician has been brought to life, then that craft in that town will expand according to the school of that physician.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 226–227

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

The physician is interpreted as a learned man who sets things right.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 248–249

Whoever sees that he is learning medicine, then it indicates that he is learning the Quran from the written copy.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 248–249

Whoever sees that a physician is treating a sick person and has set him right, then it indicates that he is guiding someone from error to right guidance.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 248–249

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

The physician is a scholar learned in religion, and he indicates every reformer and administrator of the affairs of religion and of the world, such as the jurist, the ruler, and the preacher whose exhortation is a salve and an antidote; and likewise the tutor, the master, the tanner, and the one who treats the hides of animals. He also indicates the cupper, because of the healing that lies in cupping.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 308–312

Whoever sees a physician selling shrouds, let him beware of him, for he is a shedder of blood, treacherous in his medicine — especially if the shrouds he sold were folded up, for that is more indicative of his deceit in his medicaments and of the common people's error concerning him.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 313–317

So whoever sees a judge or a scholar who has become a physician, his kindness will increase and his benefit will be great.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 308–312

And whoever sees a physician who has turned into a tanner of hides, that is an indication of his skill and of the great number of those who are cured at his hands — unless he sees that his tanning is spoiled and putrid, for then he is ignorant and a fraud.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 313–317

And whoever sees a physician who has become a judge or a jurist: if he is a Muslim and wise, his renown will increase, his rank will become great, and his degree in his craft will rise; but if he is otherwise, calamities will descend upon him, and perhaps he will destroy someone by his medicine, because of his ignorance and his temerity, for he rose in the dream to what is not his. And whoever

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 308–312

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

Physitians séene in a dream▪ to him which is in law, signifie the same that Attorneys and proctors.

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

Kinds and conditions of Physician

physicians and attorneys

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

he shall likewise see Physitians, or Attourneyes, or speak with them.

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

physician treating him

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

(And whoever sees) one of the masters of medical treatment treating something that pains him, then it indicates befriending someone from whom benefit will be obtained. And Allah knows best.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 63

healer / physician

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

(And if he sees) one of the practitioners of medical treatment, and he was of pleasing appearance, then it is praiseworthy; and if he was the opposite of that, then the meaning is the opposite. And Allah knows best what is correct.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 68

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