Boy (Male Child)

Seeing a child small enough to be carried in the arms signifies sorrow and grief, because a small child comes with hardship.

Seeing a child near puberty signifies joy and glad tidings.

Seeing oneself become a hairless young child signifies inheritance that will come from one's mother.

Seeing a child who has reached puberty signifies dignity and strength.

If a person who already knows how to read the Qur'an sees himself send his child to a teacher, it signifies repentance from sins. If a poor and destitute person sees himself become a newborn child again, it signifies attaining livelihood and wealth. If a man whose wife is pregnant sees his own face become like the face of a child, his wife will give birth to a boy who resembles him.

Carrying a child on one's back signifies sorrow and grief; sometimes it signifies administering property or an estate. If an adult sees himself turn into a swaddled nursing infant, it signifies losing human maturity through ignorance. If that person is suffering sorrow, grief, or distress, however, it signifies deliverance from these and attainment of health and well-being.

Children and wealth are described as a trial for a person. For that reason, seeing a child can signify minor and sometimes major sorrows.

Seeing oneself kill a child signifies acquiring many branches of knowledge, as in the story of al-Khidr.