Basmala ("In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful") بسملة

Whoever sees it in a dream in beautiful writing, it indicates knowledge, guidance and provision through its blessing; and its particular significance [holds] if he sees it according to the well-known form. The basmala may indicate a child and a grandchild, because its parts are attached to one another. Seeing it may indicate making up for what was missed, because its letters are repeated. It indicates striving toward marriage and glad tidings in its outcome. The basmala indicates guidance after going astray. If it is written in the dream in a fine hand, he will obtain provision and good fortune in his craft or his knowledge. If a dead person writes it, he is in the mercy of God the Exalted. Writing it may indicate profit in farming. Consider what was written with it in the dream, whether Quran or something else. If he erased it after writing it, or a bird snatched it from him, it indicates the end of his life and the exhaustion of his provision; and by this one may judge the case of someone on whose hands something of the Quran or anything else is written: he may be afflicted in his body, or what he complains of may increase. For it is said that al-Hasan ibn Ali, God be pleased with him, saw in a dream written on his forehead:

وَٱلضُّحَىٰ ۝ وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا سَجَىٰ

“By the morning brightness And [by] the night when it covers with darkness,”

Quran 93:1–2 · Saheeh International

He took that to Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, who said: "O son of the Messenger of God, make your will and seek forgiveness." And he departed this world after one night.

If he recites the basmala in a prayer while his school of law holds that the basmala is omitted in prayer, his saying it there is a sign of taking on a religious obligation he did not need. It may indicate inclining toward the father rather than the mother, or the mother rather than the father, or preferring a Sunna over an obligation, a supererogatory act over a Sunna, or an innovation over a recommended act; and the same ruling applies to the recitation of the four imams.

Consider what it was written with in the dream: if it was written in gold, it indicates provision, devotion to acts of obedience, or setting one's inner self right; it may be a fine reputation and a good outcome. The opposite applies if he wrote it in the dream with something with which writing is not permitted. Consider which calligraphic script it was written in: in the Tumar script, it is wealth that flies away; in Thuluth ["one-third"], wealth from shares; in Muhaqqaq ["verified"], the realization of what he hopes for; in Mansub ["proportioned"], well-proportioned circumstances; in Naskh ["copying," also "abrogation"], dismissal; in Wahshi, he will obtain something substantial. If it is in the script of poems (Ash'ar), that indicates heedlessness and infatuation. In Rayhani, nearness to what he hopes for. In Ghubari ["dust" script], a disease of the eye; and for one who complains of something of that kind, it is a sign of how it will end. Consider what else it was written on. Writing it in the Tawqi' ["signature"] script is might and victory, and in the copyists' script it is lawsuits. If nothing of its writing is clear, it is a sign of wavering in one's school or belief. As for its being written in foreign scripts such as Hebrew, Syriac, Indian and the like, it is a sign of foreign dinars, spouses, slave-girls or slaves, or familiarity with strangers. If he writes it with an iron pen, it indicates strength, provision and steadfastness in affairs. If he writes it with a silver pen: if it is like an ordinary pen, it indicates middling circumstances, especially if he writes it with a crooked or knotted pen; and if the pen is straight and fine, it indicates an exalted position, or knowledge and action, for the one who did it in the dream. If he writes it on paper, he may do a good deed or follow an obligation. If he writes it on parchment, he will strive to claim an inheritance. If it is on red, yellow or white woven cloth, he will attain joy and happiness; and if it is written on green woven cloth, he will attain martyrdom in the sight of God the Exalted. Writing it on that or anything else with light or gold is glad tidings.

It is related that al-Husayn ibn Ali, God be pleased with him, saw in a dream as if Surat al-Ikhlas was written between his eyes. He sent to Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, may God the Exalted have mercy on him, and told it to him, and he said: "If his dream is true, he will die soon." And he died thus, as a stranger.

As for seeing the dots and vowel marks of the basmala in a dream: if the basmala indicates a wife, its dots and vowel marks are her wealth, her trousseau, her children and her chastity. If it indicates wealth, that is its beneficial zakat. If it indicates prayer, that is its Sunna practices. If it indicates a town, it is its people and notables among the scholars and the virtuous, the craftsmen among the populace, and its profitable trades. Consider the grammatical marks and seeing them in the dream: the mark of the accusative [nasb] is a position [mansib]; the mark of the genitive [khafd, "lowering"] is dismissal; the mark of the nominative [raf', "raising"] is elevation, or death, or the end of one's work; the connecting mark [wasl] is a gift or tie [sila]; the mark of the jussive [jazm, "cutting"] is decisiveness in affairs; and the mark of doubling [tashdid, "tightening"] is narrowness and difficulty in affairs. Whatever of these marks is added to the basmala or to anything else, relate it to the dreamer's religion or his worldly life; and likewise if something is missing.

If he sees the basmala in reversed order, as when one puts "the Most Merciful" in place of "In the name," or puts the divine name before "In the name" and does so, that and the like in a dream is a sign of apostasy from religion or from one's school, or preferring slave-girls over free women, or doing kindness to those not worthy of it. If someone else wrote it and he erased it himself, it indicates breaking a covenant, or apostasy from Islam, or being stingy with the knowledge or wealth he has. If the dreamer did that in the dream while he is sick, he will recover; or if he is a sinner, he will repent and turn back [to God]; he may marry and be granted righteous offspring, or profit in the trade goods he stores up.

Whoever sees that he recited "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" in his dream, God the Exalted will place blessing and increase in his wealth.