Finger إصبع

It is what helps a person in his worldly life through his craft, and in his Hereafter through enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong. The finger in interpretation is children, spouses, fathers, mothers, wealth, riding animals, dominion and craft. Whoever sees that his fingers increased in a pleasing way, it signifies an increase in what we have mentioned, and their decrease (a decrease in) what they signify. Their being cut off, withered and their usefulness disabled in a dream may signify the impossibility of benefit from fathers, mothers or children, or that his wealth will go, his animals die, his dominion be disrupted or his craft stagnate. Fingers may signify the king's deputies, differing in their ranks and usefulness.

(Whoever sees) that he is biting his fingertips in a dream, if he is sick, he will die.

(Whoever sees) that his fingers were cut off or a blight struck them, there will be weakness in his troops, his children, his relatives or his acquaintances. Fingers may signify the five prayers: the thumb is the dawn prayer, the index finger the noon prayer, the middle finger the afternoon prayer, the ring finger the sunset prayer, and the little finger the night prayer. It is also said that the middle finger is the dawn prayer, because of the recommended lengthening in it; the ring finger the noon prayer; and the little finger the afternoon prayer, because it is the end of the day. If the fingers are taken as prayer, the nails are its sunnah or voluntary prayers; if the fingers are wealth, the nails are zakat; and if the fingers signify soldiers and helpers, the nails are their weapons and equipment. Counting on the fingers is the counting of wealth. Fingers are days, months or years. Fingers may signify a brother's children, because the shoulder is a brother and the fingers are in the position of children; and they are wealth.

(Whoever sees) someone cut off one of his fingers, that person will harm him in the wealth on which he depends. Whatever soundness or corruption occurs in the fingers, attribute it to the obligatory prayers, or to the brother among brothers. Long fingers signify increased greed. If he sees a finger added to his fingers, it is an increase in his kin, or in his prayer, or in his open deeds. If he sees one of the fingers move to another place, he delays a prayer to the time of the next.

(Whoever sees) that he interlaced his fingers combines his prayers at one time; or his relatives may gather over a matter about which they consult and cooperate. It is also said that interlacing the fingers without doing anything with them is tight-handedness, and that he has concerns that preoccupy his household and his nephews over a matter that has struck them, which they fear for themselves, and they have joined forces to repel it and deal with it. It is also said that the fingers of the right hand are the five prayers: their shortness signifies falling short and laziness in them, their length signifies keeping up the prayers, and the falling off of one of them signifies abandoning prayer.

(Whoever sees) that he bit someone's fingertip, it signifies the bad manners of the one bitten and the biter's going to great lengths in disciplining him.

(Whoever sees) milk coming out of his thumb and blood out of his index finger while he drinks from both will have intimate relations with his wife's mother or her sister. Cracking the fingers signifies ugly words occurring from his relatives. If the ruler sees an increase in his fingers, that signifies an increase in his greed and injustice and a lack of fairness. The fingers of the left hand are the children of one's brother and sister. Men dyeing their fingers with henna is a sign of much glorification of God; a woman dyeing her fingers with henna signifies her husband's kindness to her; and if she sees that she dyed them but the dye did not take, her husband does not show his love for her.