Striking the neck and severing the head is indicative of security for one who is afraid, relief for one who is distressed, healing for one whois sick and payment of debt for one who owes a debt, because freeingthe neck means releasing it from the situation it was in.
A man who had committed an offence dreamt that so and so struck his neck. I said to him: You will go back to your work. And he went back to it.
My mother- may Allah have mercy on her – dreamt that that happened to me, andI was appointed as a judge. If a king dreams that he struck the necks ofhis subjects, he will pardon the offenders.
