Ruin 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 indicates the scattering of the family's unity and their death.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 107

The ruin of the city indicates the death of its king or his injustice,

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 107

and the death of the king indicates the ruin of the city.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 107

(Whoever sees) himself in a ruin, then he will be afflicted by a people whom he has no strength to withstand.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 107

(Whoever sees) that a city has been ruined by earthquakes or something else, then he will pass a sentence of death upon someone, or the standing of noble people will be diminished.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 107

(Whoever sees) a flourishing village ruined and its farmlands left idle, then that is misguidance or disobedience on the part of its owners;

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 107

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

Whoever sees a place he knows having become a ruin, and he finds no one in it, then it is the occurrence of worry and grief.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 110

And whoever sees a place he knows having become a ruin, and its people find no place to dwell in, then their ruler will oppress them until they find no escape from him.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 110

And whoever sees that a congregational mosque has been ruined so that nothing of its outline remains, then the rulership of that place, or its judge, will pass away, such that the one who comes after him will do nothing at all of what his predecessor used to do — enough said.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 110

And whoever sees a market that has been ruined, with no one earning a living left in it, then it is the stagnation of its people's trade and the scattering of their affairs, and perhaps it indicates a great calamity befalling them.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 110

And whoever sees that his house is utterly in ruins, then it is the ruin of his body, either through old age or through infirmities that befall him.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 110

And whoever sees that a bathhouse has been ruined and effaced, then it is the death of a woman attributed to that place, and perhaps it is his wife or the greatest of his relatives.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 110

Kinds and conditions of Ruin

ruin of buildings

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

(The ruin of buildings) Whoever sees the world in ruin, its farmlands and dwellings, and sees himself amid the ruin while in fine condition of dress and mount, then it is misguidance.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 539–542

And whoever sees the walls of the house collapsed by a flood of water, then it is the death of its people.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 539–542

traces of dwellings (ruins)

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

Traces of dwellings in a dream indicate remembrance and admonitions.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 127

And perhaps traces indicate the years and the relics, or the number of their days.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 127

ruins

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

Ruins among places signify misguidance for whoever sees that he is in them, if he is a worldly man.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 756–759

And whoever sees that an inhabited, flourishing place has collapsed and fallen into ruin, then that is calamities that will befall the people of that place.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 756–759

ruin of house and shop

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

And it has been said: the ruin of a house, a shop, and the like is a decrease in wealth and going astray in the important affairs of this world.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 109

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