Joseph AS
Yusuf(PBUH)
- And they say in the books of Tafisr; Some Mufasireen say:
- That Jibril came to Sayyidina Yusuf AS and told him:
- Who is the one who freed you from the well? He said: Allah
- Who is the one who delivered you to safety in Egypt? He said: Allah
- Who is the one who put you in the right place to be raised up and honoured you? He said Allah
- Who is the one who saved you from the fitna? He said Allah
- Who saved you from the Fitna and the wife of Al-Azeez? He said Allah
- He said: If Allah is the one who saved you throughout all of this
- How come instead of asking Allah
- You're asking the king to save you out of jail?
- And Yusuf stays in the prison; Most narration says seven years
- One night, the king was asleep and he saw a strange dream
- I saw in the dream, seven fat healthy cows
- Eaten by seven lean lazy cows
- And he said: I saw seven green ears of corn;
- And seven dry ears of corn,
- And the king is so worried about this dream
- So he starts to speak to the people around him
- Specially the wise men; The scholars who are around him [12:43]
- And most of them said:
- You only saw jumble dream; mean nothing [12:44]
- Who's listening? The one who was locked up with Yusuf
- He remembered; The best person to inerpret dreams is Yusuf
- So he went to Sayyidina Yusuf and he said: Yusuf, man of truth,
- Seven fat cows, devoured by seven weak ones
- Seven green ears of corn and seven dry ones
- Tell us the interpretation of this
- So that I can go and let the people know [12:46]
- Yusuf AS now has a bargaining tool in his hand, he's in jail and this man comes to ask him about the intrepretation of the dream
- He could have said: I'm not going to tell you the answer until you free me
- But Yusuf didn't. He gave him the answer without asking for anything
- And not only did he give the anwer
- He gave the intrepatations and his recommendations
- He said: For seven years you are going to have an abundance of harvest
- These are the seven fat cows, and then he said:
- That harvest which you reap; Keep it in the ears
- Except a little of it which you may eat [12:47]
- He told them: You need to ration
- Even though you're going to have a lot of harvest, don't use it all
- Save most of it and only use the minimum
- And then he said: after the seven years of abundance
- There would come seven difficult years; you would have nothing
- And in those seven years, you're going to be eating from what
- From what you have stored [12:48]
- So these are the seven lean skinny cows eating the seven fat ones
- And the seven green ears of corn;
- You're going to use them for the seven dry years,
- And then he told them something that is not in the dream
- And that is a Wahi from Allah SWT
- Then thereafter will come a year;
- In which people will have abundant rain
- And in which they will press wine and oil [12:49]
- This was conveyed to the king; The king was impressed
- He wanted to make use of this expertise; Bring him to me
- The Messenger went to convey this news to Sayyidina Yusuf
- He told him the king is offering you to leave prison and jail
- You're free; Not only are you free to leave
- But the king wants to have you as one of his advisers
- But the response of Yusuf AS was amazing
- It was even amazing to Rasullullah SAW
- Yusuf said: No I'm not going to leave
- Sayyidina Yusuf said: Return to your lord and ask him
- What happened to the women who cut their hands
- Surely My Lord Allah is well aware of their plot [12:50]
- Yusuf AS did not want to leave prison until his innocence is established
- Because he was put in jail and he's innocent
- And Rasullullah SAW said: May Allah have mercy on Yusuf
- If it was me I would have rushed towars the door
- And responded to the call
- But the story of Yusuf is an example from the beginning to the end;
- It's an example of patience; That is the essence of the story of Yusuf
- So the king gathered all those women, and then he told them:
- Tell me what happened and tell me the truth on Yusuf
- And you are claiming that Yusuf tried to do the evil with you
- I wannna hear the truth today; So what did they respond?
- We did not see anything wrong from him,
- Nothing of what you heard is true and then who came out?
- The head of this whole accusation; The wife of the treasurer
- And she is the one that gathered all those women
- And she is the one that deceived all those women
- And she was the one behind of Yusuf being locked up in the prison
- She got up after seven years and she said:
- Now it's time for the truth to be clear
- It's me that tried to have the evil doing with him
- He's an honest man; Righteous man; It's my fault [12:51]
- And this is the time for my husband to know that I never did the evil
- I tried but it didn't happen and when I told my husband I didn't do it
- I am honest I did not do it [12:52]
- Now Yusuf AS accepts to come out
- Coming out with what? With honour; with respect
- The king said to him: What do you want?
- So Yusuf; What did he ask for?
- He asked for the job of the treasurer
- I gave you the solution and I know how to put it into place
- He ruled everything, and this is how we gave power to Yusuf on land [12:56]
- Seven years will come passed
- Those Seven years; Allah SWT had given them seven blessed years
- Especially what? The ruler and the treasurer behind that is Yusuf AS
- And Yusuf AS for seven years; He put a strategy
- That he kept enough food and stock for the next seven years
- So people were comfortable in the first seven years
- And then the next seven years came so tough
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