Bread

Seeing flatbread signifies broad and good livelihood; rolling it up and eating it signifies blessing and provision, and finding bread signifies elevation and increased provision. Distributing bread to the poor signifies low prices, blessing, and firmness in religion. Bread may signify increased knowledge, a good wife, pleasant days, abundant wealth and provision, and ease after difficulty. White bread signifies easy provision; pure bread from clean flour signifies good livelihood, sound knowledge, and a good wife. Al-Nabulsi says the best bread in interpretation is bread properly baked in an oven; bread may signify knowledge, Islam, life, or the wealth by which life is sustained. A dead person giving bread signifies unexpected wealth and provision. Bread seen high above may signify rising prices.

Eating all the bread given to one signifies the approach of the end of one's allotted life, while taking only one bite signifies greed. Small bread signifies short life and little provision; spoiled or moldy bread signifies wealth that brings no benefit and whose alms have not been paid. Unbaked bread signifies severe illness or fever, and bread flying away signifies famine and high prices. The source also repeats that flatbread may signify travel and the easing of difficult matters, while shredded pastry may signify knowledge, guidance, and purity of heart.