A beard shaved off in a dream

Question

Question: A man, while in i‘tikaf, saw in a dream that a person who lives as a tenant in his house — there was arguing and quarrelling between the two of them. Meanwhile a certain religious scholar, a graduate of Deoband, came in the form of that tenant, and I had an exchange of abuse with him. After a little while I sat down to perform wudu, and the same exchange of abuse took place between me and the scholar. After that the scholar shaved off his beard completely. What does shaving the beard allude to?

Answer

Having the beard shaved off in a dream points to losing one’s dignity. Dignity also does not remain through engaging in abusive talk: the one who was seen in this state was regarded as lacking dignity.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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