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Sayydi Yusuf [PBUT]

Sayydi Ya'qoub [PBUH] was in Syria when his wife Rachel gave birth to sayydi Yusuf [PBUH], when Gabriel came to him and said “O, Ya'qoub, Allah has given you a very beautiful boy like no one else had, and He has given him half the beauty”. So sayydi Ya'qoub was so happy for that, and when he came back home and looked at sayydi Yusuf [PBUH], he did not got tired of watching him all the time. So he slaughtered many sheep for Allah for the sake of sayydi Yusuf [PBUH], and he distributed them among the poor and needy.

When Yusuf [PBUH] grew up, he saw a dream and told it to his father. As Allah, Almighty, showed us in Surat Yusuf, verse 4 [O my father, indeed I have seen eleven stars and the sun and the moon; I saw them prostrating to me].

Sayydi Ya'qoub [PBUH] shed tears when he heard the dream, and when sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] asked him “O, father why are you crying?” He replied “O, son, no creature prostates to another creature unless in adversity and affliction. Don’t you see when Allah made the angels prostrate to Adam, how he was then afflicted by getting out of paradise!” Then he asked his son not to tell his brothers about his dream, as verse 5 says [He said, O my son, do not relate your vision to your brothers or they will contrive against you a plan. Indeed Satan, to man, is a manifest enemy].

Sayydi Ya'qoub [PBUH] was afraid that if his sons learned about this dream they would envy him and plot to hurt him, because he knew that this dream showed that Allah has chosen sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] for His message and that he was favored to his brothers. As verse 6 says [And thus will your Lord choose you and teach you the interpretation of narratives and complete His favor upon you and upon the family of Ya'qoub, as He completed it upon your fathers before, Ibrahim and Ishaq. Indeed, your Lord is Knowing and Wise.].

Jaber [AAH] narrated that a Jew once came to the Prophet [PPBUH] and said “O, Mohammad, tell me about the stars that Yusuf has seen?” So the Prophet waited, then Gabriel descended and told him about them. The Prophet [PPBUH] asked the jew (If I told you, will you embrace Islam?) and the man replied “Yes, I will”. So the Prophet [PPBUH] said (Jorban, al-Tarek, al-Dheyal, Qabess, Amoudan, al-Faleiq, al-Musbeh, al-Darouh, al-Fargh, Wethab, and Dhuel-Katefien. Yusuf saw them, and the sun and moon descended from the sky to prostrate for him). The Jew said “Yes, indeed, I swear by Allah that these are their names”.

Eventually, sayydi Yusuf’s brothers [PBUH] learned about his dream and they envied him for it, as it came in verse 8 [When they said, "Yusuf and his brother are more beloved to our father than we are, while we are a clan. Indeed, our father is in clear error] Yusuf 8.

His brothers started to plan how to kill him. So they decided to convince their father to let him go out with them, as he will be ill if he kept staying at home. But their father kept refusing as the verses 11 and 12 said [They said, "O our father, why do you not entrust us with Yusuf while indeed, we are to him sincere counselors? ¤ Send him with us tomorrow that he may eat well and play. And indeed, we will be his guardians] He refused and said [Indeed, it saddens me that you should take him, and I fear that a wolf would eat him while you are of him unaware] as in verse 13. They said [If a wolf should eat him while we are a clan, indeed, we would then be losers] as in verse 14.

So when sayydi Ya'qoub [PBUH] heard what they said, he finally agreed and told sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] that he gave him the permission to go out hunting with them. They say that what happened to sayydi Ya'qoub [PBUH] only happened because he feared too much for his son and forgot to say that he left him for the protection of Allah. And if he has done so, Allah would have protected him, but that was fate [the command of Allah is a distend fate] al-Ahzab 33:38.

When Yusuf [PBUH] left with his brothers and they showed him intimacy and kindness until they reached a remote wild area. They then were deciding what to do with him, some said to kill him, some said that kill is a horrible thing to do, and instead they should throw him is the well to be picked by some travelers. They took vows for that. So, they tied him up after they took off his shirt and threw him in the well, where he fell on the head of a lion which has fell there earlier. There was also a hole in the well’s wall where a huge snake lived. Some said that the well is located in Jordan, others said it is located in Egypt and others said in Jerusalem. After he was thrown in the well, he sat on a rock and cried heavily. Then Gabriel came to him as the verse says [But We inspired to him, "You will surely inform them about this affair of theirs while they do not perceive] as in verse 15.

Before Yusuf’s brothers [PBUH] returned home, they slaughtered a camel, cooked it, and ate it, and used some of its blood to stain Yusuf’s shirt, and hided the well with camel’s skin. They caught a wolf. Then they brought the wolf and blood stained shirt to their father and told him that the wolf ate Yusuf, as the verses 17 and 18 [They said, "O our father, indeed we went racing each other and left Yusuf with our possessions, and a wolf ate him. But you would not believe us, even if we were truthful" ¤ And they brought upon his shirt false blood]. It was narrated that sayydi Ya'qoub [PBUH] heard what they said he shouted, took sayydi Yusuf's shirt [PBUH], put it on his face and cried very heavily. Then he said  “I have not seen a kinder wolf than this one; it ate my son without ripping off his shirt!” He brought the wolf and asked him “how come you ate a prophet?” the wolf said “how can I eat him while I know that he is a prophet! Look at his shirt an stretch it; it is the evidence that I did not eat him”. So, Benjamin [PBUH] wetted the shirt, stretched it and found it to be intact. The wolf continued: “I don’t wear clothes to keep his shirt intact, wasn’t I supposed to cut his shirt off?” So, Ya'qoub [PBUH] asked his sons “why would the wolf keep the shirt intact?”, which explains the meaning of the words [false blood] in the verse.  The verse 18 continues [he said "Rather, your selves have enticed you to something, so good patience is fitting. And Allah is the one sought for help against that which you describe" ].

There was a convoy of traders passing by the place where the well was located and they were seeking some water, so they sent their water drawer to search for water for them to drink. He knew that there was a well in that place. So he kept hitting the ground with a bayonet until he found the well which was covered by camel’s skin. The drawer dropped a bucket down the well to fill it with water, and Yusuf [PBUH] hung onto that bucket and he got out of the well.

As the verse 19 said [And there came a company of travelers; then they sent their water drawer, and he let down his bucket. He said, "Good news! Here is a boy." And they concealed him, as merchandise; and Allah was knowing of what they did].

Written by Ahmed Abbas.

Translated by Shayma Bassyoni