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 Sayyduna Yusuf [PBUH] 2

When the expert of the traders group found the well which was covered with camel skin, he stabbed the well with bayonet that he had in his hand. Then he dropped his bucket, so sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] held on to the bucket. The group expert and those who were with him, rejoiced with him and said: we will sell him with a high price. Before that time sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] had said once to himself "I am beautiful, if they sold me, then the price will be highly expensive". So Allah accounted him for that.

The traders group went to Egypt, they presented Yusuf to the governor of Egypt [Aziz Misr], as they expected that Aziz Misr will give them plenty of money in exchange for this beautiful slave. But Aziz Misr told them "I am not in need of this slave". They kept trying to adorn Yusuf and his attributes to the eyes of Aziz Misr and he kept refusing, until he bought him [sayydi Yusuf PBUH] for the cheapest price.

The wife of Aziz Misr, sayyda Zulaykha [AAH] was very pretty women and was much younger than her husband. Aziz Misr came to his wife with sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] and told her "take care of him, feed him and drink him".

Years passed, and sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] became increasingly beautiful; year after year, sayyda Zulaykha [AAH] was fascinated with sayydi Yusuf [PBUH]. Whenever sayyda Zulaykha [AAH] tried to get close to sayydi Yusuf [PBUH], he would increase in refusing and her love for him would increase also. The news of the love of sayyda Zulaykha [AAH] to Yusuf [PBUH] was spread among people. The wives of ministers said "the wife of Aziz seduces her slave with herself; she is madly in his love". When Zulaykha [AAH] heard what the wives of ministers were saying about her and about her young slave, she sent for them to come to her place, and many of them came upon her request. Zulaykha [AAH] asked them to sit and brought for them fruits which need peeling with knifes. Before their coming, Zulaykha had asked sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] to take a shower and perfume himself and wear the clothes she prepared to him which was decorated with silk and pearls and told him not to enter the room unto them until she calls him. After she presented the fruits to her guests [wives ministers] and every one held a fruit in her hand with knife in order to peel and cut it, sayyda Zulaykha [AAH] called him [PBUH]. He came unto them, when the wives of ministers saw him, they cut their fingers with the knifes instead of the fruits, and said "Allah forbid, this is not a human being, he is an honorable angel". Then sayyda Zulaykha [AAH] said to them "that is the one for whom you blamed me ".

It was narrated that the total number of the women who were charmed by sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] was forty women and nine of them died as a result of their passion for him. It was also narrated that the ministers' wives said to him [PBUH]: obey you lady in what she is telling you. Sayyda Zulaykha [AAH] said "if he does not obey my order, he will be imprisoned". When sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] realized what they are plotting for him, he said "O, Allah, the prison is better for me than what they are asking".

So it was one time, when sayyda Zulaykha closed the doors on them together [And she verily desired him, and he desired her, had it not been for seeing evidence from his Lord] Yusuf 12:24. They said in some explanations that: she desired him, that is; wanted him, and he desired her, that is: he was inclined to her. And there is a big difference between the inclining and the wanting. As the inclination is the first degree of love and the desire is its last degree. Inclination can be recovered from in a few seconds, but the wanting owns the human being and he cannot escape it or recover from. The evidence of his Lord was that he saw sayydi Yaqoub [PBUH] biting on his thumbs to warn him. Then sayydi Yusuf escaped from her, running to the door and she ran after him trying to catch him. She held his shirt from behind and it was cut. They found Aziz Misr at the door, she said to her husband in this moment [What shall be his reward, who wishes evil to your folk, save prison or a painful doom?] Yusuf 12:25. Aziz Misr looked at sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] and said "she is your mother who brought you up!" sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] said "she seduced me for herself and if you do not believe me, you can ask this child". At that time, the nephew of sayyda Zulaykha [AAH], a one year old baby, was in the room lying on a bed. The Lord, Almighty, made the child talk and said [If his shirt is torn from before, then she speaks truth and he is of the liars ¤ And if his shirt is torn from behind, then she has lied and he is of the truthful] Yusuf 12:26-27. When Aziz  Misr saw the shirt of sayydi Yusuf [PBUH], he looked at sayyda Zulaykha [AAH] and said [Lo! This is of the guile of you women. Lo! The guile of you is great] Yusuf 12:28. Aziz Misr feared from the result of these matters, so he ordered sayydi Yusuf to be imprisoned.

When sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] entered the prison, he found the waiter and cook of the king. They never left the sitting of sayydi Yusuf [PBUH]. One day, the waiter said to sayydi Yusuf [PBUH]: I saw in my dreams three bowls from gold and inside every one there was bunch of grapes and I found as if I am squeezing out wine from the grapes and give the king to drink time after time. Then the cook said to sayydi Yusuf [PBUH]: I saw in my dreams as if I have three ovens filled with fire and as if I baked bread and put it in a dish on my head and the birds were eating from it. Sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] said to them [O, my two prison mates, As for one of you, he shall pour for his master to drink a wine. As for the other, he will be crucified and the birds will eat from off his head] Yusuf 12:41. When the cook heard that, he said “Lo! I have not seen anything", but as-Seddik [PBUH] said [has been decreed that matter whereof you two do inquire] Yusuf 12:41. Then what sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] said, happened, as the cook was crucified and the birds ate from his head, and the waiter has been set free.

When the waiter was getting out, sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] said to him "mention me to your lord". Allah was jealous of this word, this is the Divine Jealousy, as he resorted to the king and did not resort to Allah. As a result of this matter, he spent in the prison six years as the number of the letters of the Arabic word [mention me]. When the waiter went out from the prison, he forgot what sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] has said to him

The years of the prison passed year by year, till the relief came for sayydi Yusuf [PBUH], when the king saw a vision that disturbed him and rendered him sleepless. The king saw in his vision that: The Nile River dried out into the land and out of it came seven fat cows. Then seven skinny cows got out of it, and ate the fat cows. Then he saw seven green ears of wheat and seven yellow ears of wheat. Then the seven yellow ears were wrapped on the green ones until it made it dry. The king woke up frightened. He ordered to bring the interpreters. He narrated to them his vision, when the interpreters heard what he narrated, they told him that: this is chimera and we do not know the interpretation of dream visions. The king became angry, so, he ordered to take off their salaries and positions in his divan. The waiter was there during their speech and he remembered what sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] said to him. He came to the king, and kneeled between his hands and said "May my lord the king give me permission to tell him about the one who can explain this vision to him". The king gave him the permission, so the waiter said "in the prison there is a young man, who knows best how to interpret these visions". Then the waiter told the king what happened between him and sayydi Yusuf [PBUH], and what happened afterwards. The king ordered them to go to the prison and tell Yusuf [PBUH] the king's visions … so what happened from sayydi Yusuf [PBUH]?

Written by Ahmed Abbas.

Translated by Aseya al-Khouly