Star in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin, al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin

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Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

A servant dreamt he saw a starre fall from heaven, and another come out of the earth and flye up to heaven, his Master died, and his Masters son rose up into his masters place.

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

Freud and Jung, a separate view

The passionate longing for God is the same as that longing for the singing morning stars.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. IV The Song of the Moth

It is well known that constellations are chiefly therio- or anthropo-morphic symbols. The papyrus says, ἀστέρας πενταδακτυλιαίους[141] (similar to the “rosy-fingered” Eos), which is nothing else than an anthropomorphic image.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. IV The Song of the Moth

The twelve apostles, for example, are likened to the twelve signs of the zodiac, and are represented, therefore, with a star over the head.[181]

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. IV The Song of the Moth

Kinds and conditions of Star

star (planet)

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

In a dream it represents the noble people.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 300–301

(And whoever sees) shining stars gathered before him in his house, there will gather at his place a group of chiefs.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 300–301

lunar mansions (stations of the stars)

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

The vision of al-Sharatan (the two horns) in a dream signifies the ruler's police force, or a stipulation (ishtiraṭ).

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 315

And al-Buṭayn (the little belly) signifies satiety of the belly.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 315

stars and planets

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

And likewise if he sees two planets fighting each other and with them are stars following each one of them; and if there are no stars with them, and he saw that concerning his own private affair or in his house, and he had two wives or a partner, then the discord between them will be by tongue and by hand.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 451–455

And if a woman or a slave sees that, or sees the two of them fighting above his head, or that they fell in that manner, then the husband or the master will fight over them with his brother or with a noble man of his own kind.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 451–455

planets and stars

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

As for the bright planets, they are seven, and the discussion of the sun and the moon has already been given. As for the remaining five, they are: Saturn, which is the one in charge of the king's punishment; Jupiter, which is the one in charge of the treasury of his wealth; Mars, which is the one in charge of his war; Venus, which is the king's wife; and Mercury, which is his scribe. The well-known stars are his notables, and the rest of the stars are his armies.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 8

Jabir al-Maghribi said: apart from the sun and the moon, the heavenly bodies are brothers and sisters.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 8

stars

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

(As for the stars) they indicate the world of people: the masculine among them are men and the feminine are women; the great ones among them are the nobles of the people, and the small ones are the common folk, or boys, or slaves.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 447–450

And the stars of guidance among them are the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), may Allah be pleased with them, and the scholars and jurists, on account of his saying (peace be upon him): "My Companions are like the stars."

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 447–450

Joseph's dream (eleven stars, sun and moon)

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation

What is meant is that the sense of His saying: "the interpretation of my dream" — that is, the one previously mentioned, which was his seeing the stars, the sun and the moon prostrating to him. So when his parents and his brothers arrived in Egypt and entered upon him while he was in the rank of king, and they prostrated to him — and that was permissible in their law — the interpretation [was fulfilled] in the prostrators, and its being true consisted in the prostration.

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7363–7364

It has been said that the interpretation also occurred with respect to the prostration, but that prostration did not actually occur from them; rather it is a metaphor for submission. The first view is the one relied upon.

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7363–7364

Banat Na'sh (stars of the Great Bear)

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

In a dream they indicate a learned, noble man.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 23

And whoever sees them all fall down, the scholars of that land have died.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 23

worshipping a star or tree

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

If he sees as though he is worshipping a star or a tree, then he is a man whose religion is the religion of the Sabians, and they are among the people whom Allah the Exalted described when He said: "wavering between that."

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 670–673

And it is said that this dream indicates that the one who sees it draws near to the service of an eminent man who is negligent of his religion.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 670–673

herding the stars

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

Whoever sees in a dream that he is herding the stars, then he will hold authority over people.

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

(And whoever sees) that he is herding sheep of the woolly kind, then he will hold authority over people of the Arabs.

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

Sirius (the star al-Shi'ra al-'Abur)

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

Seeing it in a dream indicates a false matter in which that seer will be involved, because it used to be worshipped instead of Allah the Exalted.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 192

And al-Shi'ra al-'Abur is a woman in whose religion there is no good, nor in her circumstances.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 192

watching the stars

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

As for tending the stars, it indicates authority (governorship).

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 750–752

a rising star

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

And the rising of a star is a noble man.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 759–762

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