Bee

To see a single bee in a dream is interpreted as a learned person, one who does much good for people. To see, find, or acquire many honeybees in a dream signifies bounty and spoils.

To kill a honeybee in a dream indicates that you will suffer loss in property, that the industriousness and abundance of your household will diminish, and that your condition will worsen. To see a beehive in a dream is interpreted as one’s spouse. A bee settling upon the head or hand indicates rising to a position of authority.

To acquire a beehive in a dream indicates productive work and a helper for an ordinary person; for a statesman, it indicates beneficial property and a righteous populace. To see bees entering a settlement in a mass signifies soldiers who will cause harm there; the bees’ entering a city in orderly fashion—if the city is known—indicates the return of order, and—if it is unknown—indicates that Muslim soldiers will conquer a city.

To see the bees’ means of subsistence among themselves in a dream indicates that people shall likewise have means of subsistence and that there will be order among them.

To see a hornet in a dream indicates a powerful man; to be stung by a hornet indicates falling into sorrow because of an evil woman; catching or killing a hornet indicates a blessed undertaking; hornets entering a place indicates an enemy invasion; and driving them away indicates being safe from assault.

The honey in the hive represents the woman’s property, while the bees are the children born of her. Removing all the honeycombs from the beehive signifies oppressing people; leaving enough honey for the bees to eat and taking the remainder signifies acting justly.

To see a yellow bee in a dream is an omen of an architect or engineer who will be exceedingly industrious and productive in a work.

According to an Islamic scholar, seeing a bee in a dream is an omen of abundance, success, and happiness. To see a bee in a dream heralds that you will achieve many successes in your professional and private life. It means that a happy life with your family awaits you. If the bee stings you, it means that a friend will disappoint you.

Catching a bee in a dream is interpreted as the fulfillment of your wishes; killing a bee in a dream is interpreted as unexpected news; and a swarm of bees is interpreted as the disclosure of a secret. A bee upon flowers signifies the unannounced visit of a close friend.

Seeing a bee in a dream is interpreted as sustenance. Whoever sees in a dream that he is standing beside a beehive and that the bees are entering and leaving the hive, it indicates that he will not suffer hardship in his livelihood and that his sustenance is abundant.

To see oneself stung by a bee in a dream indicates that there are people who envy one’s earnings and have cast their eyes upon one.

According to another narration: To see a honeybee is interpreted as a good man, smiling-faced, industrious, prosperous in earnings, and blessed. According to one narration, the honeybee signifies gain and abundance; according to another, it is interpreted as a man who is beneficial and pleases everyone through his goodness.

Whoever finds or acquires many honeybees in his dream attains bounty and spoils.

According to Kirmani, a honeybee in a dream signifies a learned person, and according to one narration, men who benefit everyone and engage in commerce. Whoever sees that the bee has stung him earns lawful property with toil. Whoever sees that he has killed a honeybee suffers loss in his property.

According to Abu Sa‘id al-Wa‘iz, whoever sees that he has taken something out of a beehive oppresses the members of his household and his acquaintances. Whoever sees that, while taking something out of the hive, the bees gather upon him but do not harm or sting him, it indicates that his relatives will gather against him, yet they will not transgress against him; if the gathered bees sting him, he will suffer harm from the uprising against him; and to see oneself die because of the bees’ attack indicates that he will leave that land.

According to another narration: To see a honeybee in a dream indicates abundance and wealth, accompanied by fear, for the one who keeps and feeds it. For farmers, seeing a honeybee in a dream indicates goodness, cheapness, and abundance. For those who are not farmers, seeing a bee indicates enmity.

An ugly-shaped bee seen in a dream indicates a warring enemy. At times, this ugly bee signifies a highway robber, a person whose earnings are unlawful, or one who plays musical instruments in an unusual manner. At times, seeing it in a dream indicates eating and drinking poisonous things.

To see an ugly and terrifying bee in a dream signifies a quarrelsome and combative man, one who curses, is dreadful, steadfast in battle, and foolish. If a person sees in a dream that ugly bees enter a village, city, or quarter, it indicates that imposing, practical, and valiant soldiers will enter that village or city and openly wage war against its people.

For a person to see the bee-king in a dream is a sign of goodness and safety. For the bee is a skillful creature and offers healing to people. Seeing the bee-king indicates the existence of a beneficial, capable, and illustrious man, a believer who harms no one.

If a person sees in a dream that he has attained something from the bee-king, it indicates health, well-being, and lawful earnings. Likewise, to see that one possesses many bee-kings indicates high office.

To see bees settling upon one’s head in a dream indicates attaining lofty ranks and property. To see a swarm of bees in a dream indicates that pressure is being exerted upon you within the family and that there are certain obstacles in some matters arising from a lack of trust in you. However, a successful and industrious person who will support you will not withhold his aid from you in order to deliver you from this situation and will ensure that your path is opened.

To see a bee making honey in a dream indicates that you will perform, in a wholly correct manner, everything that is expected of you in your working life or school life, and that you will cause people to take pride in you.

To see a bee upon a flower in a dream indicates that you will have friends and companions who will not withdraw their hand from you in your difficult times, will not withhold their assistance, and will enable you to meet all your needs. To catch a bee in a dream indicates that you are in a fortunate period, that prosperous times are near, and that by making good use of this time you may open certain doors.

To see a bee in a dream indicates that the dreamer will attain great material and spiritual gains. The bee seen in a dream is a symbol of abundance, prosperity, peace, and happiness. It indicates that the person will achieve great success in the works he undertakes and will attain high stations. It is interpreted as the doors of sustenance opening and the master of the dream being delivered from the troubled days in which he finds himself. According to some interpreters, the bee seen in a dream signifies a kind-hearted person who helps those around him.

If a person sees in his dream that he has been stung by a bee, this dream indicates that he is envied by close ones whom he regards as friends. According to some interpreters, such a dream also indicates that the person will emerge with honor from a venture he undertook after great effort and, as a result, will obtain great rewards. If the place stung by the bee swells, it is interpreted as the dreamer receiving a great kindness from someone he did not expect.

To see bees inside the hive or bees roaming around the hive in a dream indicates that the dreamer will be delivered from the evil condition in which he finds himself and attain peace. It is also a sign that somewhat greater effort is required in order to achieve success in the works being undertaken. According to some interpreters, it is also interpreted as the dreamer reaching high positions and extending a helping hand to those around him. If a person sees in a dream that he is waiting beside a beehive, this dream indicates that the doors of sustenance will open, troubles will depart, and peaceful days will begin.

To see that one has killed a bee in a dream indicates that the dreamer will defeat the enemies around him who appear as friends. It is also interpreted as obtaining great gains from a commercial enterprise undertaken or receiving a promotion in the work at which one is employed.

To see a swarm of bees in a dream indicates attaining abundance in material and spiritual respects. If the dreamer is a man, it is interpreted as his marrying in the near future a woman whose financial condition is good; if the dreamer is a woman, it is interpreted as her emerging with honor from a work she undertakes and obtaining great gains. According to some scholars, seeing bees gathered together in a dream indicates earning lawful gains and engaging in great undertakings.

To see a hornet in a dream indicates that the dreamer will be harmed by an ill-intentioned person. It is also interpreted as meaning that there are friends around the person who desire his harm.

To see that one has burned bees in a dream indicates that the dreamer will find himself in the midst of a great quarrel at a wholly unexpected moment. Moreover, if the bees burned in the dream are hornets, it indicates that the person will recognize the ill-intentioned people around him and, by distancing himself from them, prevent them from causing him harm.

It can be read as a sign of easing, receiving support, gaining morale, or a fruitful development.

Underestimating opportunities, succumbing to comfort, or being late may reduce the positive effect.

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