Snow 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

Seeing it in a dream is an indication of provisions and benefits, and of recovery from cold ailments and illnesses — especially for one whose livelihood comes from that.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 51–52

Snow and fire together may indicate intimacy and harmony, because fire does not melt the snow and the snow does not extinguish the fire.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 51–52

If snow is seen in its proper season, it is an indication of the departure of worries and griefs, and of subduing enemies and enviers.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 51–52

And if it appears out of its season, it is an indication of cold illnesses and paralysis.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 51–52

Snow may also indicate the disruption of travel and the loss of the earnings of the postmen, couriers, mule-drivers and their like.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 51–52

Overwhelming snow means the ruler's tormenting of his subjects, seizing their wealth, his harshness toward them and his foul speech to them, for the words of the Exalted: "So We sent down upon them a punishment from the sky." It is said: meaning snow.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 51–52

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

Whoever sees snow, grief, illness and torment will befall him, unless he sees it as little and falling in its proper season.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 11

(And whoever) sees snow in winter, or in a land where snow falls continuously, it indicates blessing and ease of living.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 11

Jabir al-Maghribi said: it indicates the routing of an army, especially if it comes with wind.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 11

Al-Kirmani said: if he sees snow in a cold place, it is good; and if he sees it in a hot place, it indicates drought and grief.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 11

And if he eats snow: if it is in winter it is better than it would be in summer.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 11

Ja'far al-Sadiq said: the vision of snow is interpreted in six ways: ample provision, life, abundant wealth, low prices, an army, and illness if he gathers it in summer.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 11

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

If that occurs in places of cultivation and at times when it is beneficial, that indicates abundant light and the blessings of the earth and great fertility, so that those places are filled with food and vegetation just as they were filled with snow.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 471–474

But if that occurs there at times in which there is no benefit for the land and its plants, then that is evidence of the tyranny of the ruler and the announcement of the deaths of the men of the frontier garrisons.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 471–474

Likewise, if the snow, whether at the time of its benefit or otherwise, overwhelms the poor, the trees and the people, then it is tyranny that befalls them and a calamity that descends upon their community, or a blight upon their properties, in proportion to the extent of the dream and its attendant signs.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 471–474

Likewise, if he sees it in the town and in a place other than a place of snow, such as houses and dwellings, then that is torment, calamity, sicknesses, or deaths and debts cast upon them and descending upon them; and perhaps it indicates siege and being prevented from travel and from seeking a livelihood.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 471–474

Some of them said: overwhelming snow is the ruler's torment of his subjects, or his foul speech to them.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 471–474

And whoever sees snow falling upon him will travel a distant journey in which there is disgrace.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 471–474

Kinds and conditions of Snow

snow, ice and hail

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

(Snow, ice and hail) All of these things may indicate calamities, sicknesses, smallpox and pleurisy, and punishment, or evils descending upon that place in which they are seen and upon the town they came down upon.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 467–470

And likewise stones and fire, because they ruin crops, trees and fruit, hinder ships, harm the poor man, cause death in the chill and cold, and at times cause sickness.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 467–470

snow and ice

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

Snow and yse séen in theyr time, signifye nothing, but that the spirit when the body sléeps remembers the cold of the day.

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

But out of time and season, it is onely good for plowmen, to others not: for it argues that theyr businesse shall go forward coldly, and forbids them to travaile.

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

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