Dreaming of Tongue

6 readings from Mehmet Emin Kırgil for Tongue are below, along with the classical texts.

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Nablusi Interpretation: Tongue

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In the world, the thing that needs to be preserved most like a treasure is a person's tongue. For this reason, the tongue seen in a dream is the interpreter and the one who conducts the affairs of its owner.

Seeing your tongue move in a dream is interpreted as a fault. Silence brings safety, but those who remain silent are very few. Seeing that you are arguing with someone and that your tongue is long in a dream indicates speaking shamelessly.

If someone sees black hair growing on their tongue in a dream, it is a sign of imminent evil, while seeing white hair growing indicates evil that will appear later.

Sometimes seeing a tongue also signifies perfection, beauty, evidence, progress, and fame. If a ruler sees their tongue cut in a dream, this dream indicates the death of the person who acts as their interpreter.

For someone involved in a court, seeing in a dream that their tongue is cut off indicates that their evidence will be invalidated and they will lose the trial, and that person will face distress.

For a married man, seeing in a dream that his wife's tongue is cut off signifies that the wife is a chaste and modest woman. Conversely, if the wife sees in a dream that her husband's tongue is cut off, it indicates that the wife will joke with him.

Seeing in a dream that the tongue is stuck to the jaw is interpreted as denial of the truth or a trust given to oneself.

Also, seeing in a dream that the tongue is in two pieces is interpreted as dishonesty. Seeing in a dream that one has lost their own tongue indicates the death of a child at the breast.

For a scholar, seeing in a dream that their tongue is cut off signifies defeat in a dispute or debate. Occasionally, it also means that the scholar's servant, student, or child dies.

Seeing in a dream that your tongue has disappeared signifies that your enemy will feel joy and pleasure due to a calamity that will befall you, your children, relatives, or neighbors.

Seeing in a dream that you are sticking out your tongue at someone indicates being subjected to ridicule among people. If a poet sees in a dream that his tongue is cut off, it signifies wealth and blessing that will come to him from the person who cuts it.

Nablusi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

"-If a man sees in a dream that he has a den and there is a lion in that den; the den represents the man's mouth, and the lion is his tongue. Releasing the lion upon people to eat and tear them apart signifies hurting and troubling people with his tongue."

This text is an AI-generated translation.

Source: İmam Nablusi · tahavi.com

Ibn Sirin Interpretation: Tongue

In a dream, one's tongue represents his translator or his business manager.One's tongue in a dream also represents the chief cause of sin.Moving one's tongue without speaking in a dream means committing a sin.Seeing an increase in size, width, or length of one's tongue in a dream means strength and overcoming one's enemy.

If one's tongue becomes elongated with no cause for dispute or argument in a dream, it means having a bad tongue, or backbiting others, speaking ill about others, or using base and despicable language. Having a long tongue in a dream also could mean clarity in one's speech and eloquence in one's expressions.

Having two tongues in a dream means acquiring a second language or a second trade, using a proof other than one's own in a court of justice, or winning victory over one's enemy. If one finds his tongue tied in a dream, it means stagnation of his business, or it could mean poverty.If black hair grows over one's tongue in a dream, it means a fast coming evil.

If gray hair grows over one's tongue in a dream, then it means a slow coming adversity. Hair growing over one's tongue in a dream also means writing or reciting a poem.One's tongue in a dream also represents the perfect alibi, the beauty and eloquence of one's presentation, a professional presentation, good fame and good conduct.

If a governor's tongue is cut off in a dream, it means the death of his interpreter or his speech writer. The human tongue in a dream also represents his pen and his signing authority.If one's tongue becomes long and reaches the skies in a dream, it means that he will be impeached or deposed from his leadership position following his tyranny and injustices.

If the tongue of a leader or a ruler becomes long in a dream, it also signifies the expansion of his power and the infallibility and effectiveness of his commands. One's tongue in a dream also symbolizes a milk sucklingbaby, a lion in his den, or an intelligent warrior.Thus, if one lets a lion out of a lair in a dream, it denotes his tongue, or hurting people's feeling or reputation with one's tongue.

If one sees himself without a tongue in a dream, it may mean the death of an infant. If one has to appear in court and sees his tongue cut off in a dream, it means that his proof will be rejected by the judge.If only the side of one's tongue is cut off in a dream, it means that he has doubts about the testimony of his witness.If he is a merchant, it means that he will lose an important business deal.

If he is a student, it means that he will not complete his schooling. It is also said that when one's tongue is cut off in a dream, it means that he is a forbearing person.If the wife's tongue is cut off in a dream it means that she is a chaste and a pious woman.If a wife cuts off the tongue of her husband in a dream, it means that she will flirt with him and show him tenderness and love.

Cutting off the tongue of a poor person in a dream means giving something to an impudent person to shun off his evil. If a poor person cuts off the tongue of another poor person in a dream, it means a fight between them.If one's tongue sticks to his palate in a dream, it means that he will deny or reject someone's right, refute the truth, or lie about a trust he received to keep for a time.

Eating one's tongue or biting on it in a dream represents an act one will regret. If a governor sees that in a dream, it means that he swindles people's money and receives bribes.Biting on one's tongue in a dream also means remaining mostly silent, withholding one's advice, or controlling one's fury and 440 IBN SEERIN'S anger.Biting one's tongue in a dream also could denote gluttony.

Cutting off one's tongue in a dream means invalidating one's argument or proof, or preventing him from asking for anything. The cutting off of a poet's tongue in a dream means giving him money for his recitation.Seeing one's tongue black in a dream means that one may preside over his own people.If he is a wretched person, it means that he is a liar.

If someone who is scared of something sees his tongue in a dream, it means that he will lose his battle and become subject to defamation and humiliation. If a wretched person sees himself having many tongues in a dream, it means that he will have a large family.Having many tongues in a dream also means speaking many foreign languages.If one's tongue is split in half in a dream, it means that he is a liar.

Having many tongues and of many colors in a dream means telling different and contradictory stories, or it could represent a music writer. If people touch one's tongue or suck it in a dream, it means that they are acquiring his knowledge.It also represents people toadying or lobbying in official business.

One's tongue in a dream also repre sents a hidden treasure, a hidden knowledge, a toadying servant, an employee, one's house, a vehicle, a skilled enemy, a seedling of a fruit bearing tree, a bad wife, a barren woman, one's spoken and irretrievable words, earnings, collecting garbage, following someone's traces, a policeman, or a prisoner.

An animal's tongue in a dream represents one's life or death, because for an animal, his tongue is like a hand through which he takes things. If a scholar's tongue is cut off in a dream, it means that he will lose his argument, or it could mean the death of his assistant, student or son.

Losing one's tongue in a dream represents the malicious joy of one's enemy, family, or neighbors for one's losses, or it could mean the death of a beloved, severing a relationship, or a plant disease that will affect one's fruit bearing trees. Perhaps losing one's tongue in a dream could mean separation between husband and wife, divorce, losing one's job, or moving to a new town.

Having two tongues in a dream also means backbiting others, or having two faces with people, for people say that so-and so has two tongues or two faces. If the second tongue does not impede the person from speaking in the dream, then it denotes his truthfulness, love and affection toward others.

One's tongue in a dream also may represent something one fears, such as the collapsing of a roof over his head, or it could represent an enemy. It also means isolating oneself from people of knowledge and wisdom, or it could mean remaining mostly silent, minding one's own business, or offering devotion and being grateful to God Almighty for His gifts and blessings.

One's tongue in a dream also represents a captured prisoner of war, or a snake hiding in its pit. Looking at one's tongue in a dream means controlling what comes out of it.(Also see Body'; Exhaustion from speaking; Language; Spell out)

Source: İbn Sîrîn geleneği (Al-Akili / tahavi derlemesi) · archive.org (Al-Akili)

Modern compilations attributed to the Ibn Sirin tradition. Not treated as a directly authenticated authored primary text.

Mehmet Emin Kırgil

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