The Bazaar and Market

Seeing a bazaar in a dream signifies the means by which people earn their livelihood and the division of labor to which people are obliged to conform in order to continue their lives. A spacious and crowded bazaar signifies abundance, while a narrow and old bazaar signifies the high cost of living. The bazaar sometimes signifies heedlessness, immersion in the world, war, and struggle. For things sold or purchased in the bazaar, refer to the relevant entry of the dream-book.

Seeing a bazaar in a dream signifies increase. Whoever sees in his dream that he is walking about in a bazaar is devising a new undertaking; whoever sees that he is buying something from the bazaar shall have his sustenance become plentiful; and whoever sees that he is looking at the things being sold before a shop in the bazaar shall have a hope he has cherished become reality. Since the bazaar is generally also interpreted as a place of worship, shopping in the bazaar is, according to some, interpreted as worship as well.

Along with the abundance of the goods he has bought, it is a sign that the worship he has performed has also been accepted by the Almighty God (Glorious and Exalted is He). The bazaar and market are interpreted as gain. If you see in your dream that you are shopping in a market, or that you are walking around the market and calculating the things you will buy, it signifies that your income and expenditure—that is, your budget—are not balanced, and that although you need many things, you cannot buy them because your money is scarce.

Seeing the bazaar in a dream filled with people and containing everything one might seek signifies selling the goods at hand and great profit.

If a person sees in a dream that he has brought something to the bazaar and wishes to sell it but is unable to sell it, it signifies goodness and baseness.

If a person sees in a dream that he has stolen something while shopping, then, if the dreamer is a warrior, it signifies that he will act treacherously and steal something from the spoils of war.

If a person sees in a dream that the people of the bazaar are asleep, or that the shops and inns have been closed, or that spiders have made nests upon the goods displayed for sale in the shops, it signifies that trade in that bazaar will cease.

Seeing oneself in a dream raising one’s voice in the bazaar and market while remembering Almighty God (Glorious and Exalted is He) signifies commanding what is right and forbidding what is wrong.

Seeing in a dream that there are no people in the bazaars and streets, or that the people of the bazaar have died, signifies the cessation of trade, the occurrence of oppression, or the destruction and perishing of goods through the arrival of calamity and affliction, and consequently the dearness of goods.

If a person sees in a dream that he has come to the bazaar, that everywhere is empty, and that nothing is being sold, it signifies deficiency and incompleteness in worship and slackness in religious commands.

If a person sees in his dream that he has lost one of his possessions in a bazaar he does not know, or that he has gained some benefit there, or suffered some loss, then, if the dreamer is engaged in jihad and war while awake, it signifies that he will flee from the battle and be deprived of attaining the rank of martyrdom; if he has gone on pilgrimage, it signifies that he will not complete his pilgrimage fully; if he is a student, it signifies that he will abandon his studies, or that he is acquiring knowledge for a purpose other than the pleasure of Allah (Glorious and Exalted is He). If none of these conditions applies to him, it signifies that he will abandon the Friday prayer.

Seeing the cooks’ bazaar in a dream signifies recovery from illness and the ending of needs.

Seeing the fish market in a dream signifies sustenance and successive benefits, advantages, and news that will come through lawful means; coming together with relatives; or receiving news from a sea voyage.

Seeing the coppersmiths’ bazaar in a dream signifies evil, troubles, and headache; for an unmarried person, it signifies marriage, and through children, relief and joy.

Seeing the wheat bazaar in a dream signifies cheapness and abundance and security from fear.

Seeing the tentmakers’ bazaar in a dream signifies travel; and sometimes it signifies the bazaar where shrouds are sold for the dead.

Seeing the blacksmiths’ bazaar in a dream signifies evil, toil, enmity, and trouble. Sometimes this dream also signifies sustenance and benefit.

Seeing the reapers’ bazaar in a dream signifies sorrow, grief, and troubles.

Seeing the carpet-makers’ bazaar in a dream signifies a sea voyage.

Seeing the mat-makers’ bazaar in a dream signifies an illness that has arisen.

Seeing the bazaar where plant roots are sold for medicine signifies preserving one’s property and keeping secrets concealed.

Seeing the silk-merchants’ bazaar in a dream signifies honor, wealth, and righteous deeds.

Seeing the butchers’ bazaar in a dream signifies the battlefield.

Seeing the lumbermen’s bazaar in a dream signifies hypocrisy, dissension, and coming together.

Seeing the cloth-merchants’ bazaar in a dream signifies honor, exaltation, a wife or rank, the renewal of sustenance, and keeping one’s affairs concealed; sometimes it also signifies peace, joy, and abundant profit.

Seeing the jewelers’ bazaar in a dream signifies relief and adornments, a wife and children, and benefit.

Seeing the fruit-merchants’ bazaar in a dream signifies a righteous deed, knowledge, and children.

Seeing the candle-makers’ bazaar in a dream signifies repentance for sinners and guidance for those who are astray.

Seeing the jewelry bazaar in a dream signifies constant remembrance of Almighty God and the acquisition of knowledge.

The cotton bazaar seen in a dream signifies the increase of the property at hand, sustenance, and the emergence of truth from falsehood.

The box-makers’ bazaar seen in a dream signifies memory and understanding.

Seeing the vegetable bazaar in a dream signifies reducing the maintenance of one’s family and children and the narrowness of one’s livelihood. Sometimes this dream also signifies making a difficult matter easy.

Seeing the glassmakers’ bazaar in a dream signifies hypocrisy, dissimulation, and tale-bearing.

Seeing the seed bazaar in a dream signifies posterity and gains and benefits arising through agriculture.

Seeing the bazaar of wool-shearers in a dream signifies sorrow, grief, and troubles.

Seeing the slave market in a dream is interpreted as honor and fame or as learning strange news. Sometimes the slave market is interpreted as an animal market. Seeing the tavern-keepers’ bazaar in a dream is interpreted as relief and joy.

The bazaar and market seen in a dream are interpreted as a mosque. Some interpreters said that the bazaar seen in a dream represents the affairs of this world. Therefore, if a person sees a spacious bazaar and market in his dream, his circumstances will become spacious and his worldly possessions will be abundant. Some interpreters said that, because sorrows and griefs gather within it, the bazaar is interpreted as anguish, grief, torment, disputation, and things such as incitement toward evil. However, for one whose livelihood is always gained through buying and selling in the bazaar and market, seeing a multitude of people there and seeing them engaged in their occupations is interpreted as good.

Sometimes the bazaar is also interpreted as a person’s book, sermon, reading, rank, playing, or error in his preaching and reading. Every bazaar and market has an interpretation peculiar to itself.

With the right perspective, it can signify restoring balance, recovery, and developing a new understanding.

Uncertainty, indecision, or a tendency to take on excessive burden may be observed.

In the interpretation, the themes of work and responsibility, emotional life, success and reputation, the emotional tone in the dream and how the symbol concludes in the dream should be evaluated together.