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Alif Lam Ra Those are the Signs of the Clear Book.
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We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'an so that hopefully you will use your intellect.
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We tell you the best of stories in revealing this Qur'an to you, even though you were unaware of it before it came.
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When Yusuf told his father, 'Father! I saw eleven bright stars, and the sun and moon as well. I saw them all prostrate in front of me.'
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He said, 'My son, don't tell your brothers your dream lest they devise some scheme to injure you, Shaytan is a clear-cut enemy to man.
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Accordingly your Lord will pick you out and teach you the true meaning of events and perfectly fulfil His blessing on you as well as on the family of Ya'qub as He fulfilled it perfectly before upon your forebears, Ibrahim and Ishaq. Most certainly your Lord is Knowing, Wise.'
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In Yusuf and his brothers there are Signs for every one of those who wants to ask.
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When they declared, 'Why! Yusuf and his brother are dearer to our father than we are although we constitute a powerful group. Our father is clearly making a mistake.
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Kill Yusuf or expel him to some land so that your father will look to you alone and then you can be people who do right.'
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One of them said, 'Do not take Yusuf's life but throw him to the bottom of the well, so that some travellers may discover him, if this is something that you have to do.'
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They said, 'Our father! What is wrong with you that you refuse to trust us with Yusuf when in truth we only wish him well?
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Why don't you send him out with us tomorrow so he can enjoy himself and play about? All of us will make sure that he is safe.'
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He said, 'It grieves me to let him go with you I fear a wolf might come and eat him up while you are heedless, not attending him.'
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They said, 'If a wolf does come and eat him up when together we make up a powerful group in that case we would truly be in loss!'
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But when, in fact, they did go out with him and gathered all together and agreed to put him at the bottom of the well, We then revealed to him that: 'You will inform them of this deed they perpetrate at a time when they are totally unaware.'
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That night they came back to their father in tears,
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saying, 'Father, we went out to run a race and left Yusuf together with our things and then a wolf appeared and ate him up but you are never going to believe us now, not even though we really tell the truth.'
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They then produced his shirt with false blood on it. He said, 'It is merely that your lower selves have suggested something to you which you did; but beauty lies in showing steadfastness. It is Allah alone who is my Help in face of the event that you describe.'
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Some travellers came that way and then dispatched their water-drawer who let his bucket down. He said, 'Good news for me, I've found a boy!' They then hid him away among their goods. Allah knew very well what they were doing.
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They sold him for a pittance, a few small coins, considering him to be of little worth.
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The Egyptian who had bought him told his wife, 'Look after him with honour and respect. It's possible he will be of use to us or perhaps we might adopt him as a son.' And thus We established Yusuf in the land to teach him the true meaning of events. Allah is in control of His affair. However, most of mankind do not know.
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And then when he became a full-grown man, We gave him knowledge and right judgement too. That is how We reward all doers of good.
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The woman whose house it was solicited him. She barred the doors and said, 'Come over here!' He said, 'Allah is my refuge! He is my lord and has been good to me with where I live. Those who do wrong will surely not succeed.'
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She wanted him and he would have wanted her, had he not seen the Clear Proof of his Lord. That happened so We might avert from him all evil and lust. He was Our chosen slave.
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They raced to the door. She tore his shirt at the back. They met her husband by the door. She said, 'How should a man whose intention was to harm your family be punished for what he did except with prison or painful punishment?'
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He said, 'It was she who tried to seduce me.' A witness from her people then declared, 'If his shirt is torn in front, she speaks the truth and he has clearly told a shameless lie.
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If his shirt is torn at the back, then she has lied and he has clearly told the simple truth.'
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He saw the shirt torn at the back and said, 'The source of this is women's deviousness. Without a doubt your guile is very great.
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Yusuf, ignore all this, and you, my wife, should ask forgiveness for your evil act. There is no doubt that you are in the wrong.'
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Some city women said, 'The governor's wife solicited her slave. He's fired her heart with love. We see that she's the one to blame.'
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