Being a Hostage

Scholars have said that seeing oneself as a hostage in a certain place may indicate the accumulation of many sins, based on the Quranic verse: "Every soul, for what it has earned, is a hostage." It was also said that the hostage is an individual under command or obedience.

Per Ibn Sirin's Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

Note: These are traditional scholarly interpretations (ijtihad) drawn from a specific classical source — not a binding religious ruling, fortune-telling, or a prediction of the future.

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