Seeing a sweet pomegranate signifies accumulated wealth, a wife, sometimes a flourishing district, and a child.
Seeing a pomegranate signifies gold that will come into one's possession.
Ja'far al-Sadiq said that seeing a pomegranate is interpreted in three ways: accumulated wealth; a righteous wife; and a prosperous country or town.
For an unmarried person, eating a sour pomegranate signifies marriage to a wealthy woman. For a ruler, a pomegranate is interpreted as a city: breaking it signifies conquering a city, with the peel representing the city's wall, the seeds its people, and the interior its wealth. For a sick person, eating pomegranate peel signifies recovery and well-being.
A pomegranate has also been interpreted as a locked chest; a honeybee and honeycomb; gold and silver; a wife; and travel. Al-Nabulsi said that when a pomegranate is interpreted as a wife, the woman is beautiful. If the pomegranate is whole and sound, the woman is unmarried; if it is broken, she is a widow. A foul-smelling pomegranate signifies an unchaste and shameless woman. Cutting down a pomegranate tree signifies abandoning one's relatives and keeping away from them. Sometimes a pomegranate tree signifies fear and crying out.
Seeing pomegranate seeds signifies livelihood obtained with ease.