Bread خبز

In a dream it has various meanings. White bread signifies wholesome provision of money — a thousand, a hundred or ten, according to the dreamer's condition and what befits him. Bitter bread is a bitter life. Sweet bread, if it is like honey or sugar, is high prices, and likewise wheat. Whoever eats bread with excrement is eating honey with its wax. The best bread is well-baked oven bread. Bread signifies knowledge and Islam, because it is the pillar of religion, the sustenance of the spirit and the life of the soul. It may signify life, and the money by which the spirit is sustained. A loaf may signify reproach and asking, and a sum of money according to people's stations. A loaf may signify the nurturing, nourishing mother through whom religion is set right and a woman is protected. Refined (white) bread indicates a pure life, sincere knowledge, and a beautiful, fair-skinned woman. Whoever sees that he is distributing bread among people or the weak: if he is a seeker of knowledge, he will obtain the knowledge he needs; if he is a preacher, those are his sermons and counsels — unless the people who took it from him are above him in rank, taking it as his charity, or are of those who need what he has, in which case it is liabilities that will revolve on them on his behalf, which he obtains because of them, and they are the lesser in right in that, because the upper hand is better than the lower hand, and charity is the refuse of people's wealth.

(Whoever sees) a dead person handing him bread, it is money or provision that will come to him through someone else's hand from a place he did not expect.

(Whoever sees) bread above the clouds, on rooftops or at the tops of palm trees, it will become expensive, and likewise all goods and foods. If he sees it on the ground being trampled underfoot, it is great abundance that breeds arrogance.

(Whoever sees) a dead person taking a loaf from him, or sees it fall from him into fire, a latrine or tar: if he is idle, or that is at a time of an innovation to which people are being called and a turmoil into which people are falling, the loaf is his religion, which he will lose or corrupt. If it is a sick woman, she will die; and if she is weak in religion, she will become corrupt.

(Whoever sees) that he is baking bread is striving to earn a living in pursuit of lasting benefit. If he baked quickly so that the oven would not cool down, he will obtain power, and money will come into his hand in proportion to what came out of the oven. It is also said that a single loaf is abundance, blessing and ready provision that someone else has worked for, and his sorrow will go. If he sees many loaves without eating them, he will soon meet brothers of his. If he sees a loaf of coarse bran bread with him, he is in a good life and middling religion; if it is barley, it is a hard life managed with scrupulous piety. If he sees a dry loaf, his livelihood will be straitened. If he is given a piece of bread and eats it, it signifies the end of his life and the expiry of his term; it is also said instead that this dream signifies seeking a living. If he took a morsel, he is a greedy man. A loaf for an unmarried man is a wife. A clean, well-baked loaf, for a sultan, is his justice and fairness, and for a craftsman, his sincerity in his craft. Bread of sorghum, millet or chickpeas is constriction and high prices. If he sees bread on garbage heaps, it will become cheap. A large loaf is ample provision and long life. Bread signifies the departure of worry. Small round flatbreads are a short life and little provision. Barley bread, for one not accustomed to eating it, is constriction and high prices. Hot bread is hypocrisy and provision with doubt in it, because the fire still remains in it.

(Whoever sees) a loaf hanging on his forehead, that is his poverty and need. Moldy bread is much money that does not benefit its owner and whose zakat he does not pay. Bread baked in hot ashes is a constricted livelihood for whoever eats it, because only someone in dire need bakes it.

(Whoever sees) that he is eating bread without any accompaniment will fall ill and die alone. Bread that has not baked through signifies a severe fever. Fine white bread, for the poor, is illness and beyond what they hope for; and coarse bran bread, for the rich, is poverty. It is also said that hot fine white bread signifies a child. Eating thin flatbread is ample provision; it is also said that the thinness of bread is a short life; and it is also said that thin flatbread is a small profit that appears large.

(Whoever sees) that he has two thin flatbreads in his hand and is eating from this one and that one will marry two sisters at once. A small round flatbread is a small profit, and a loaf is a large profit. Ka'k (ring cakes) and rusks are bodily health. Rotten bread is cheapness. If it grows wings, it will become expensive when it flies. Broken pieces of bread are abundance, ease and wholesome earnings. A loaf is a wife, a child, a full year, a dirham or a hundred. Unleavened bread is a debt he will incur or a loan he will give. Dry bread, for people of luxury, signifies need, like crumbled bread. Ka'k is travel; its coming to one who cannot eat it is a sign of worry, misery and hardship. Whoever was in good or evil and became separated from it will return to it, because the beginning of (the ring) is like its end. Thin flatbread is travel, and may signify the easing of what is difficult; the fresh is honor and the dry is evil. As for tutmaj dough sheets, that is luxury, honor, position, joys and delights. Kunafa signifies knowledge and guidance. Rotten bread is corruption in religion, apostasy from Islam and the deterioration of a wife's condition. Pieces of bread of different colors and tastes indicate profits from charity or from showing off. The soft inside of bread is beneficial knowledge, sincerity in word and deed, and a righteous inner self; the crusts are showing off, flattery and hypocrisy.