Dream About Grave Interpretation

A grave and a prison symbolize each other—seeing one may mean experiencing the other.
Living in a grave means you might end up in prison.
Being imprisoned in an unfamiliar place with unknown people means you will enter the grave.
Building a grave means you will build a house.
Digging a grave means getting married, but possibly through deception.
Standing over a grave means committing a sin.
Digging a grave and finding it above ground with no walls represents the afterlife.

Being put in a grave: You will own a house.
Sand being leveled over you in the grave: You will receive money.
Filling up a grave: You will have a long life and good health.
Being placed in a grave as a dead person, without preservation: You will be intimate with a woman.
Seeing a grave in an unknown place: You will associate with a hypocrite.
Many graves in an unfamiliar place: You are surrounded by hypocrites.
Recognizable graves: You are forgetting the truth or neglecting certain rights.
A known grave becoming your house: You will marry a relative of the deceased.

A grave or grave pit represents prison, and vice versa.
Graves can also symbolize ignorance, religious corruption, disaster, worries, regret for following the wrong path, but eventual repentance.
A gravedigger represents a powerful and respected person.
Wanting to visit graves means you will visit prisoners.
Digging a grave for yourself or someone else means you will build a house or settle in that place.
Digging a grave on the surface means you will live a long life.

If a grave turns into a house, shop, or village, the deceased’s family will build a house there.
Standing by a grave means you will commit a sin, as mentioned in the Quran.
Standing by your own grave and looking at it means you will repent and be forgiven.
Seeing a wealthy person wandering in a graveyard means they will lose their wealth since the dead have no money.

Walking among open graves means you will enter the homes of misguided people or visit prisons.
Digging a grave with your nails or trying to unearth the dead means you are investigating the life of the deceased to follow their ways.
Finding a dead person alive in their grave means you will gain wisdom, become pious, and earn in a lawful way.
Digging in a graveyard and finding some dead people alive while others remain dead means a tragic event will cause many deaths in that area.
Seeing snakes, insects, or fire coming out of a grave means either you are involved in something terrible, or the dead person in that grave was a disbeliever.

Seeing something written on a grave means you will be imprisoned forever.
Being questioned in a grave by the angels Munker and Nakeer means a ruler or authority figure will summon you for questioning. If you answer well, you have nothing to fear.
Being taken out of a grave and then put back means you will gain something from a leader but will eventually be imprisoned.
Seeing graves rain from the sky means divine mercy will come.

Seeing someone go into a grave, come out, and try to push you in means a prisoner is trying to frame you.
If someone hands you over to a grave, that person is trying to ruin you.
Seeing plants growing around graves means the dead are receiving God’s mercy.
Visiting a graveyard and learning a lesson means you will win a case. If you learn nothing, you have rights but are unaware of them.

Seeing the grave of a rich person means you may become wealthy or receive an inheritance.
If the deceased is alive in their grave, the money gained will be unlawful.
If the deceased remains dead, the knowledge or wisdom you seek will be true.
A stone tomb or sarcophagus symbolizes profits, a war prisoner, unexpected gains, or revealing personal secrets.

Graves can symbolize long travels, confusion, a wife, or prison.
Filling a grave with dirt means a long and healthy life.
Being buried alive means facing a disaster, financial struggles, or imprisonment.
Being buried alive while wearing a shroud can also mean getting married.
Digging up someone’s grave means trying to follow their profession.
Digging up the grave of a scholar means seeking their knowledge.

Digging a grave means you will build a house.
Digging a grave also means getting married.
Digging your own grave means you will build a house in that place.
Digging a grave and speaking to the deceased about your needs means your problems will be solved.
A grave digger can symbolize a matchmaker, someone obsessed with worldly matters, or a treasure hunter.

Seeing a grave digger or excavator can mean death if:
- You push the grave digger away.
- Your animal tramples the grave digger.
- The grave digger falls to the ground.
- You are in the state of death agony (sakraat).
If any of the following happens, you may lose your job or die:
- Rolling up your bedding.
- Losing your turban or cap.
- Your hand being cut off.
- Your tongue being cut off.
- Becoming blind.

A grave digger represents someone who struggles through hardships.
Being around a grave digger means you won’t find peace until they are gone.
If a grave digger asks about you, it signals trouble for you but relief for those who will bury you.

Entering a grave without a funeral means you will buy a house.
Being lowered into a grave means you will be imprisoned.
Entering a grave without being carried in a funeral means you will buy an empty house.
Entering a grave and stepping on bones means you will be expelled from something.
Entering a grave can also mean your life is coming to an end.
Not entering the grave means the dream has no real effect.

Being alive in a grave means you will either be imprisoned or face financial hardship.

A man told Imam Ibn Sirin, “I saw myself in a dream digging up the bones of Prophet Muhammad (SAWS).”

Ibn Sirin replied, “You will revive and follow his traditions in your life.”

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