Seeing oneself strike another person with a whip signifies speaking badly about that person; if blood flows from the person who is struck, it signifies causing him harm.
Seeing oneself strike with a whip signifies overcoming an enemy or invalidating the arguments they put forward.
Seeing a living person strike a dead person signifies that the living person's religious condition is strong in matters such as prayer, pilgrimage, and almsgiving, provided that the deceased is content with the beating and submits to the one who strikes.
Seeing oneself struck by a dead person signifies attaining good from a journey one will make. Sometimes beating in a dream signifies censuring the person who is beaten and giving him advice. It has been said that beating in a dream is a form of supplication. Thus, seeing oneself beat the donkey one is riding signifies that after praying to one's Lord and asking for one's needs, one will eat. If a superior sees himself beating one of the officials under his command, the dream signifies good and a benefit that will pass from the one who strikes to the one who is struck.