In a dream it signifies the scholar seated on the chair, and the meat and spices in it are his benefits for whoever partakes of it. The pot may signify a divorced woman, if it is on its trivet, and its boiling is her divorce. The pot is a man who shows his blessings to people in general and to his neighbors in particular. The pot is the manager of the house, so whatever happens to it, attribute it to the manager of the house who keeps it in order. A pot in the house of a sick person, if it is boiling with a fire blazing under it and he does not know what is in it: the stove is his bed, the flaring of the fire is his anguish, and its boiling is his restlessness; if the fire goes out or dies down, his illness will go. The pot is also his own self.
Whoever sees that he lit a fire and put the pot on it with meat or food in it will stir a man to seek some benefit, because the pot is a man who manages a household. If the meat cooks and he eats it, it is benefit and lawful money; if it does not cook, the benefit is unlawful and the stirring is backbiting. If he eats, he will be provided for by it; if he carries some of it away, he will benefit from it, gain money and save it. If there is neither meat nor food in the pot, he will burden a poor man with what he cannot bear and gain nothing from him. The qidra [pot] is qudra, power over the adversary [wordplay]. The pot may signify contentment with what is decreed [al-maqdur]. The pot is a foreign woman. Whoever sees that he cooked in a pot will obtain great wealth by way of the ruler or a foreign king. The meat and broth in the pot are noble provision already settled, along with words and quarreling.