Flood

Seeing an overflow or a river in flood signifies unbelievable news, by analogy with the extraordinary disasters that overflowing waters can cause.

Seeing a flood come after heavy rain signifies certain sorrows and hardship.

Swimming through a flood and reaching dry land signifies escape from oppression and safety.

Seeing a flood caused by rain signifies harm and illness that will befall the dreamer.

Ja'far al-Sadiq said that seeing a flood is interpreted in four ways: a great and formidable enemy, a tyrannical and oppressive ruler, a victorious army, and severe strife.

Seeing a flood whose water is clean and sweet and from which people benefit signifies successive good provisions and blessings.

Seeing the flood rise over the shops in the marketplace signifies waters overflowing or the ruler's oppression of the people. At times, seeing a flood signifies false and untrue speech.

Seeing a flood flow as blood signifies the wrath of Allah Most High. Collecting floodwater in a container and seeing people rejoice over it, preserve it, and eat and drink from it signifies cheapness and abundance of foodstuffs such as milk, olive oil, and honey. Al-Nabulsi said that seeing the earth covered with water because of a flood signifies disaster, affliction, and calamity, a tax imposed on the people, an enemy attacking them, or plague and epidemic disease afflicting them. If, however, the floodwater is rainwater, it signifies aid, assistance, and blessing for the people.

Seeing floods overflow in winter signifies an ignorant and disorderly people who cause anarchy.

Seeing a flood flow into one's house signifies a foul-tongued and wicked woman. It has been said that there is no good in any overflowing water. Whether water from a well, stream, or river flows abundantly to a known or unknown place, whether muddy or clear, much or little, all of these signify sorrow and grief. At times, seeing a flood signifies that one's road will be blocked by things such as a lion, dragon, or snake. A flood arriving out of season may also signify the emergence of an innovation from the direction from which the flood came.