Joseph AS
Yusuf(PBUH)
- Sayyidina Yusuf held those emotions in his heart and he did not speak
- And then he said: Also silently; You are in worse case,
- And Allah knows best the truth of what you assert
- Now the brother are trying to free Binyamin
- Because they had given their father a promise
- That we'll come back with him
- They said: O ruler of the land; Verily he has a father who is old
- So take one of us in his place;
- Indeed we think you are one of the good doers [12:78]
- He said: No, that will be oppression [12:79]
- He is guilty; We're going to keep him,
- When they gave up; They went on the side
- The elder brother; He said: I'm not going to leave Egypt
- I'm not going to go and face my father after this
- We have betrayed Yusuf before
- And now we're going to go to our father and say that...
- Our brother is taken as a prisoner; I'm not going to leave
- So he stayed there, and the other brothers went back to Egypt
- So they went back and they told their father what happened,
- The father didn't believe this
- How could it happen that before you betray Yusuf
- And you come and lie and now you betray his other brother and you lie
- So he told them; Nay but your ownselves,
- Have beguiled you to do something [12:83]
- This time they're telling the truth
- They said: Ask the people in Egypt
- All of them will witness that we're telling the truth
- He said: No you have made a plot; I will have patience
- May Allah bring them all back to me; Yusuf and his brother
- He did not even lose hope in Yusuf
- Because he remembers the dream of Yusuf
- And he knows that one day Yusuf will be victorious
- The father started to cry and weep until he turned blind [12:84]
- The brothers tried to reduce this pain on their father and they said:
- By Allah you will never seize remembering Yusuf,
- Until you become weak with old age or until you be of the dead [12:85]
- He said: I only complain of my grief and sorror to Allah,
- And I know from Allah that which you know not [12:86]
- And then he said: O my sons...
- Go you and inquire about Yusuf and his brother
- And never give up hope of Allah's mercy
- Certainly no one despairs of Allah's mercy except people who disbelieve [12:87]
- And the next year; they went to Egypy to receive the ration
- They went to Sayyidina Yusuf AS and they met with him
- And they said: O ruler of the land; A hard time has hit us in our family
- Difficult moments and they were begging him
- And we have came with poor capital
- Something that is not worth a lot
- So pay us full measure and be charitable to us [12:88]
- When Sayyidina Yusuf AS saw his brothers begging
- At that point; When Yusuf saw his brothers begging
- He didn't want it to go any further
- He said: Do you know what you have done;
- To Yusuf and his brother when you were ignorant [12:89]?
- So immediately when he said that; they knew
- That the man who's standing in front of them is Yusuf AS
- They said: Are you indeed Yusuf?
- I am Yusuf and this is my brother
- Allah has indeed been gracious to us [12:90]
- It is the story of someone who went through difficulty
- Trials, misery, sorrow and sadness but then in the end;
- Allah had bestowed his blesssings on me; Why?
- The essence of the Surah of Yusuf
- Verily who has Taqwa and is patient
- Allah SWT will not waste the deeds of the right doers
- Sayyidina Yusuf was victorious in the end in Dunya and in Aakhira
- But it happened after a while; Therefore it needs patience
- If you do not have patience
- You will not be able to survive the long road
- Now they realised; They realised their loss and they said:
- By Allah; Indeed Allah has preferred you above us
- And we certainly have been sinners [12:91]
- These brothers who were jealous of Yusuf
- So jealous; they tried to kill him
- Now they're saying: You're better than us
- Today, there's no punishment or no blame on you
- Go you are free; May Allah forgive you
- And he is the most merciful of those who show mercy [12:92]
- But he gave them something; He gave them his shirt
- And he said: Go with this shirt of mine
- And cast it over the face of my father
- He will become clear sighted and bring to me all your family [12:93]
- When the caravan was leaving out of Egypt
- Sayyidina Yaqub smelt Sayyidina Yusuf; He was smelling his shirt [12:94]
- And he was still in Egypt and this is another miracle of Sayyidina Yaqub AS
- They said: O our father by Allah; Certainly you are in your old error [12:95]
- Then when the bearer of the glad tidings arrived
- He cast it over his face and he became clear sighted
- He said: Did I not say to you I know from Allah that which you know not [12:96]?
- They said: O our father ask forgiveness from Allah for our sins
- Indeed we have been sinners [12:97]
- He said: I will ask my Lord for forgiveness for you
- Verily He only is the One who is Oft-Forgiving; The Most Merciful [12:98]
- Now all of them moved and they started moving towards Egypt
- To fulfill the invitation of Sayyidina Yusuf AS
- Then when they entered on to Yusuf
- He betook his parents to himself and said:
- Enter Egypt If Allah will in security [12:99]
- Sayyidina Yusuf was sitting on a high throne
- So he elevated his father and his mother to sit with him on the throne
- And then all of them; The father and the mother and the eleven brothers;
- Made Sujood to Sayyidina Yusuf AS
- To fulfil the dream which he saw when he was a child
- So the eleven planets were his brothers
- And the sun his father and the moon is his mother
- O my father this is the intrepretation of my dream of old
- My Lord has made it come true [12:100]
- My lord; You have indeed bestowed on me the sovereignty
- And taught me the intrepretation of dreams
- The only Creator of the Heavens and the Earth
- You are my Wali in this world and the Hereafter
- Sayyidina Yusuf had everything a seeker of this world wants
- He had power and authority; He had wealth
- He had control over the kingdom of Egypt
- Which was the greatest kingdom of the time
- He was combined with his parents and family again
- And the dispute among them was solved; He had it all,
- But this for Sayyidina Yusuf is nothing
- He would say ALHAMDULILLAH for what Allah SWT has given me,
- Look at the Dua that Sayyidina Yusuf is saying; He said:
- Cause me to die as a Muslim and join me with the righteous [12:101]
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