Dreaming of Eye in Islam

The eye is read by its condition and by what it sees. Clear, strong sight is the settled good reading: guidance, a religion in order, and the ability to tell one thing from another. Weak or clouded sight is read as confusion in exactly that place — not blindness of the body but a matter one is no longer seeing straight. Losing an eye the older interpreters read as the loss of something of one's own — a person, a support, a portion of what one had — and losing both as a heavier version of the same, not as a sentence about eyesight. Seeing with an extra eye, or seeing what others cannot, is read as insight given rather than earned. A wounded eye that heals is read as a lapse corrected. Watching someone else through their eye — seeing the world as they see it — shifts the dream onto that person and onto your judgement of them.

The Arabic ʿayn is one word for three things: the eye, a spring of water, and the very essence of a thing — you say the ʿayn of the matter for the thing itself. That breadth is why the symbol carries religion, insight and what is dear at once; the language put them together before any interpreter did. The Qur'an also uses the eye as an image of care and keeping — Musa was to be raised under His eye (Ta-Ha 20:39) — and the readings about protection follow from there.

A dream about the eyes is not a medical sign and is not a warning about your sight or anyone else's. It is not a ruling. Eye strain, a long night, and worry about a relative's health all produce it without meaning attaching. If a dream of this kind frightened you, the response taught is to seek refuge in Allah, turn onto your other side, and not to relate it.