A.R.Omar · MealMerkezi.Net

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Alif Lâm Râ - I am Allâh, the All-Seeing. These are the verses of the perfect Book, containing luminous (truths) that tell the right from the wrong.

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We have, indeed revealed this Qur'ân which explains its object eloquently well that you may abstain (from evils).

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We narrate (rightly) to you with the best explanation because We revealed to you this Qur'ân; otherwise you were of those not possessed of the (requisite) knowledge before this.

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(Remember the time) when Joseph said to his father, 'My dear father! I have seen (in a vision) eleven stars and the sun and the moon. I saw them falling down prostrate (before God) because of me.'

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He said, 'My dear son! relate not your vision to your brothers lest they should intrigue against you, for satan is to a human being an enemy disuniting.

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'And thus (shall it be as He has shown you in this vision). Your Lord will make you His chosen one and impart you knowledge of the true interpretation of (Divine) sayings and will perfect His favours upon you and upon the family of Jacob, just as He perfected it formerly upon two of your forefathers - Abraham and Isaac. Verily, your Lord is All-Knowing, All-Wise.'

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The fact is that there are many signs in (the account of) Joseph and his brothers for the inquirers (about the prophethood of Muhammad and about his opponents).

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(Recall) when they (brothers of Joseph) said (to one another), 'Surely, Joseph and his brother (Benjamin) are dearer to our father than we are, though we are a formidable party. Surely, our father is cherishing a love that has gone too far.

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'So you (had better either) kill Joseph or remove him to some distant land. (In this way) your father's favour will be exclusively yours. After that you can (repent and) become a pious people.'

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(At this) a speaker among them said, 'If you are bent upon doing something at all, do not kill Joseph but put him into the dark depths of the dry well; (perhaps) some caravan of travellers may pick him out.'

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(On making this resolution) they (went to their father and) said, 'Our father! why do you not trust us with regard to Joseph, while, as a matter of fact, we are his sincere well-wishers?

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'Send him forth with us (for an outing) tomorrow, that he may enjoy himself and play. Surely, we will keep guard over him.'

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He said, 'It worries me that you should take him away. Moreover, I fear lest a wolf should devour him while you are heedless of him.'

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They said, 'If the wolf were to devour him inspite of the fact we are a formidable party, in that case we shall be indeed losers.'

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So when (after forcing their father) they took him away and agreed to put him into the depths of a dry well (and carried their plan out), We revealed to him (Joseph), 'You shall certainly tell them (one day) of this (treacherous) doing of theirs while they perceive not.'

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And they came weeping to their father at nightfall.

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They said, 'Our father! we went forth racing one with another and left Joseph (behind) with our belongings and the wolf devoured him. But you would never believe us though we be the truthful ones.'

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And (to assure their father) they came (to him) with (stains of) false blood on his (Joseph's) shirt. He (Jacob) said, 'This is not true, but you yourselves have made a (malicious) thing seem fair to you. So (now showing) patience is befitting (for me). And it is Allâh (alone) whose help can be sought to avert what you describe.'

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(Now) there came a caravan of travellers and they sent their water-drawer (to fetch water) and he let down his bucket (into the well). And behold! he cried, 'Oh, glad tidings, here is a young boy.' So they (Joseph's brothers) presented him (in this way) as (if) a piece of merchandise, and Allâh was Well-Aware of their doings.

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And they (the brothers of Joseph) sold him, (claiming him to be their slave, to the travellers) for a trifling price - a few dirhams (silver coins), and they were not (even) desirous of it.

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And (Joseph was taken to Egypt and resold there;) the man from Egypt who bought him (from the travellers) said to his wife, 'Make his stay honourable. He may prove useful to us or we may adopt him as a son.' In this way did We grant Joseph an honourable position in the country and (We did it) that We might impart to him knowledge of the interpretation of some (Divine) sayings. And Allâh has full power over His decree, but most people do not know (this).

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And when he attained his (age of) full strength, We granted him judgment and knowledge, and thus do We reward the doers of good deeds to others.

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Now the woman in whose house he was (putting up) sought to seduce him against his will and she bolted the doors well and said, 'Now come, I am ready to receive you.' He (Joseph) said, '(How can it be possible,) I seek refuge with Allâh, He alone is my Lord. He has made my stay (with you) honourable. Verily, the wrong doers never flourish.'

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And she made up her mind with regard to him, and he made up his mind with regard to her (and would have fallen into her snares as the temptations were so strong) if he had not seen the manifest evidence of his Lord. (It happened thus) so that We might turn away from him every evil and indecency. Surely, he was one of Our purified servants.

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And both of them ran for the door, one trying to outdo the other. And (in the struggle) she tore his shirt from behind. They encountered her husband (all of a sudden) by the door. She said, 'There can be no punishment less than imprisonment or some other painful torture for the man who intended evil with your wife.'

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He (Joseph) said, 'No, (it is not so as she describes but) she it was who sought to seduce me against my will.' Now a (learned) witness of her own family bore a (circumstantial) evidence (saying), 'If his shirt has been torn from the front then she speaks the truth and he is of the liars.

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'But if his shirt has been torn from behind then she is a liar and he speaks the truth.'

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So when he (her husband) saw his shirt torn from behind, he (at once understood the truth of the matter and) said (to his wife), 'This is surely a (deceiving) device which you women practise. Your (cunning) device is indeed great.'

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(Turning to Joseph) he said, 'Joseph! leave the matter alone and you (woman) seek forgiveness for your sin. It is you, of course who are of the sinful.'

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And the women talked in the city, 'The wife of the 'Azîz (Potiphar, the captain of king's guard) seeks to seduce her young slave against his will. His love has indeed penetrated deep in her heart. Indeed, we see her in obvious error (in going too far in her love).'

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