{"id":554,"date":"2013-09-26T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/v2\/?p=554"},"modified":"2014-09-26T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T11:22:28","slug":"yusuf-nabias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/misbah\/qesasalanbiyah\/yusuf-nabias\/","title":{"rendered":"Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0blessed his sons on their departure and prayed to Allah for their protection. Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0greeted them happily and took his younger brother Banyameen aside and revealed to him that he was his brother Yusuf who had been thrown into a well.<\/p>\n

Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0had a certain plan in his mind .He furnished the brothers with their provisions and asked one of his servants to put a golden beaker in their bag (which was also used as a measure). As a caravan was about to depart, a soldier announced:<\/p>\n

\u201cO you in the caravan! Surely, you are thieves!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The brothers, asked \u201cWhat is it that is missing?\u201d They replied, \u201cWe are missing the great beaker of the king and for him who produces it, is the reward of a camel load.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the brothers said \u201cWe are not thieves and we have not come here to make mischief.\u201d An Egyptian officer, with prior instructions from Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>, exclaimed, \u201cWhat punishment should you choose for the thief?\u201d The brothers answered \u201cAccording to our law, whoever steals becomes a slave to the owner of the property.\u201d The officers agreed. They began to search the sacks of the brothers and finally found the missing beaker in the sack of the youngest one \u2013 the brother of Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

This incident was followed by a great deal of excitement. The brothers tried very hard to convince Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0not to detain their brother but he refused and asked them not to back out of their promise.<\/p>\n

The eldest of the brothers decided to stay back with the youngest. He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe promised our father in the name of Allah not to fail him. Therefore I will not leave this land until my father permits me, or Allah commands me: and Allah is the best to command.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thus he stayed back while his brothers left and informed their father of the situation. Yaqub NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0on hearing this was heartbroken but he chose to be patient and forbearing and said:<\/p>\n

\u201cSo patience is most fitting for me. Maybe Allah will bring them all back to me in the end. Allah is indeed full of knowledge and wisdom.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the grief of separation from Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0was so great in Yaqub Nabi\u2019sAS<\/sup>\u00a0heart and he wept so much that he lost his eyesight.<\/p>\n

Yaqub NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0directed his sons to go and seek tidings of Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0and his brother. Thus they left for Egypt again. Allah narrates this incident in the Quran:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when they came back into the presence of Yusuf, they said: \u201co exalted one! Distress has seized us and our family; we have now brought but scanty capital; so pay us full measure, and treat it as charity to us; for Allah rewards the charitable.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was then that Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0revealed his true identity to the brothers and said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am Yusuf and this is my brother. Allah has indeed been gracious to us\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0graciously forgave the brothers for what they had done. He then gave them his shirt and said:<\/p>\n

\u201cGo with this shirt of mine, and cast it over the face of my father; he will regain his eyesight. Then return to me together with all your family.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even as his brothers were about to return home, their father remarked that he smelt the fragrance of Yusuf. When the brothers finally arrived and cast the shirt of Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0on his face he at once regained his eye sight.<\/p>\n

The brothers sought his forgiveness and returned to Egypt with their parents. Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0gave them a warm welcome and treated his parents with great respect. It was then that the brothers fell down in prostration for Yusuf NabiAS<\/sup>\u00a0and he said to his father:<\/p>\n

\u201cO my father! This is the interpretation of my dream of old!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The narratives of Anbiya KiraamAS<\/sup>\u00a0are not mere fables rather, there are meanings to all the incidents. Misbah has attempted to narrate them simply as they are described in the Quran. The aim is to familiarize the reader with them so that when he recites the Quran or listens to the meanings ascribed to them, he does so with better understanding. These narratives are not necessarily actual happenings; some maybe symbolic depictions that can be interpreted and explained only by the true representative of Imam-uz-ZamanSA<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yusuf NabiAS\u00a0blessed his sons on their departure and prayed to Allah for their protection. Yusuf NabiAS\u00a0greeted them happily and took his younger brother Banyameen aside and revealed to him that he was his brother Yusuf who had been thrown into a well. Yusuf NabiAS\u00a0had a certain plan in his mind .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}