In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful A do not see These are the verses of the clear book We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur’an so that you may understand We relate to you the best stories of what We have revealed to you in this Qur’an, even though before it you were among the heedless When Joseph said to his father, O father, I saw eleven stars, and the sun and the moon, I saw them prostrating to me He said, “O my son, do not relate your visions to your brothers, lest they plot a plot against you. Indeed, Satan is a clear enemy of man.” Likewise, your Lord will choose you and teach you how to interpret hadiths And He will complete His blessing upon you and upon the family of Jacob Just as He completed it upon your parents before Abraham and Isaac. Indeed, your Lord is All-Knowing, All-Wise There were signs in Joseph and his brothers for those who ask When they said to Joseph and his brother, he is more beloved to our father than we are, and we are a group. Indeed, our father is in clear error Kill Joseph or cast him to the ground, so that your father's favor may pass over you, and you will be righteous people after him One of them said, “Do not kill Joseph and throw him into the pit while he is gone and some car will pick him up, if you will.” They said, “O our father, what is the matter with you that you do not trust us with Joseph, and we are sincere to him.” Send him with us tomorrow to feed and play, and we will protect him He said, “It saddens me that you take him away, and I fear that the wolf will eat him while you are heedless of him.” They said: Because the wolf ate him while we were a group, then we would be losers When they took him and agreed to place him in the absence of the pit, and We revealed to him that you would inform them of this matter of theirs while they did not realize it. They came to their father at dinner crying They said, “O our father, we went out to get ahead of ourselves and left Joseph with our belongings, but the wolf ate him, and you would not be a believer in us, even if we were truthful.” And they came with false blood on his shirt. He said, “Rather, I asked yourselves to do a matter, so patience is beautiful, and God is the one who seeks help in what you describe.” A car came and they sent and brought them back. He brought out a bucket and said, “O human, this is a boy, and they captured his goods, and God is All-Knowing of what they do.” They bought it for a low price of a few dirhams, and they were ascetics And the one who bought him from Egypt said to his wife, “Honor his resting place. Perhaps he will benefit us or we will adopt him as a son.” Likewise, We established Joseph in the land and that We may teach him the interpretation of hadiths. God has power over his affairs, but most people do not know And when he reached maturity, We gave him wisdom and knowledge, and thus We reward the doers of good And she, in whose house he was in, comforted him and closed the doors and said, “Good for you.” He said, “God forbid.” He said, “Indeed, my Lord is the best of my abode. Indeed, the wrongdoers will not be afraid.” And I was interested in him and they were in it, had he not seen the proof of his Lord. Likewise, We would have averted evil and immorality from him. He is one of Our sincere servants. He stood ahead of the door, and she took off his shirt from the back and wrapped, “Oh, her master,” at the door. She said, “What is the recompense for whoever intends evil for your family except imprisonment or a painful punishment?” He said, "It came to me on my own behalf, and a witness from her family testified that his shirt had been torn off, then she told the truth, and he was one of the liars." And if his shirt was torn from the back, then you lied, and he was one of the truthful ones When he saw that his shirt was torn from the back, he said, “It is part of your plot. Your plot is great.” Joseph, turn away from this and ask forgiveness for your sin, for you were among the sinners And women in Medina said, “The woman of Al-Aziz deceived her young man about himself, and he honored her out of love. Indeed, we see her in clear error.” When I heard of their deception, I sent for them and prepared a dining room for them, and gave each of them a knife She said, “Go out to them.” When they saw him, they glorified him, cut off their hands, and said, “God forbid, this is not a human being. This is nothing but a generous king.” She said, “That is what you blamed me for, and I told him about himself, so he refrained from doing so, and if he does not do what I command him, he will be imprisoned and he will be among the lowly.” My Lord said, “Prison is more beloved to me than what they invite me to. Otherwise, turn away from me their plot, I will join them and be among the ignorant.” So his Lord responded to him and turned away from him their plot. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Knowing Then some of the signs they saw appeared to them to imprison him for a while Two girls entered the prison with him. One of them said, “I saw me squeezing wine.” The other said, “I saw me carrying bread on my head, from which the birds ate. Inform us of its interpretation. Indeed, we see you as one of the doers of good.” He said: No food will come to you that you are provided with except that I will inform you of its interpretation before it comes to you. That is what my Lord has taught me. I have left the religion of a people who do not believe in God and are disbelievers in the Hereafter I followed the religion of the fathers of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is not for us to associate anything with God. This is from God’s bounty upon us and upon the people, but most people are not grateful. O my companions of the prison, are different lords better or God the One, the All-Mighty? You worship nothing besides Him except names you have named, you and your fathers, for which God has sent down no authority The rule belongs only to God. He commanded that you should not worship anyone but Him. That is the upright religion, but most people do not know O companions of the prison, as for one of you, his master will pour him wine, and as for the other, he will be crucified, and birds will eat from his head. The matter about which you are asking a fatwa has been decided. And he said to the one who thought he would be saved from them, “Remember me with your Lord,” but Satan made him forget to mention his Lord, so he stayed in prison for a few years. The king said, “I see seven fat cows being eaten by seven lean ones, and seven green ears of corn and some dry ones.” O eminent ones, give me a fatwa regarding my vision if you can express the vision They said they are just dreams, and we do not interpret dreams with two worlds And those of them who came and mentioned after a nation said, “I will inform you of its interpretation,” so they sent Joseph, O friend, advise us regarding seven fat cows eaten by seven lean ones, and seven green ears of corn and some dry ones, so that I may return to the people so that you may know. He said: You shall sow for seven years continually, and whatever you reap, leave it in its ears, except a little of what you shall eat Either after that will come seven hardships that will consume what you have given them, except a little of what you fortify Either there will come after that a year in which people will rain and in which they will squeeze The king said, “Bring him to me.” When the messenger came to him, he said, “Go back to your Lord and ask Him what is the matter with the women who cut off their hands. My Lord knows their plots.” He said: What is the matter with you when you reported to Joseph about himself? We said: God forbid that we knew of his evil Al-Aziz’s wife said, “Now the truth has come to fruition. I narrated it on his own authority, and he is one of the truthful.” This is so that he may know that I did not betray him in the unseen and that God does not guide the plots of the traitors And I do not absolve myself, for the soul is inclined to do evil, except what my Lord has mercy. Indeed, my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful The king said, “Bring it to me so I can extract it for myself.” When he spoke to him, he said, “Today we have a trustworthy person.” He said: He has placed me in charge of the treasures of the earth. Indeed, I am a Guardian, All-Knowing Likewise, We established Joseph in the land so that he could reside therein wherever he wished. We share with Our mercy whomever We wish, and We do not waste the reward of the doers of good. And the reward of the Hereafter is better for those who believe and fear Joseph's brothers came and entered upon him, and he recognized them, but they denied him And when he prepared them with their equipment, he said, “Bring to me a brother of yours from your father. Do you not see that I am adequate to the measure and I am the best of the two? If you do not bring it to me, then I have no measure for you, and you will not approach me They said: We will ward off his father from him, and indeed we will do so He said to his boys: “Put their goods in their bags, so that they may know them.” When they return to their families, they may return. When they returned to their father, they said, “O our father, measure is withheld from us, so send our brother with us so that we may measure up, and we will protect him.” He said: Did I trust you with him except as I trusted you with his brother before? God is the best guardian and He is the Most Merciful of those who show mercy And when they opened their belongings, they found that their merchandise had been returned to them. They said, “O our father, we do not want it. This is our merchandise that has been returned to us. We will protect our people, protect our brother, and increase a camel’s measure. That is a small measure.” He said, “I will not send him with you until you give him a pledge from God that you will bring him to me, unless you are surrounded.” When they gave him their pledge, he said, “God is a disposer of affairs over what we say.” He said, “O my son, do not enter through one gate, but enter through separate gates, and I am of no use to you before God.” Judgment belongs to God alone. In Him I trust, and in Him let those who trust put their trust And when they entered as their father had commanded them, nothing availed them of God except a need for a soul, which He fulfilled. Indeed, he has knowledge because of what we taught him, but most people do not know And when they entered upon Joseph, they took his brother to him. He said, “I am your brother, so do not be distressed by what they were doing.” When he had prepared them with their equipment, he placed the water-carrier on his brother’s saddlebags, and then a muezzin called out: “O caravan, you are indeed thieves.” They said and approached them, “What do you lose?” They said, “We lose the king’s sword, and whoever brings it has a camel’s burden, and I am a leader with it.” They said, “By God, you know that we have not come to spread corruption on earth, and we are not thieves.” They said: What is his reward if you are liars? They said: Whoever is found in his mount is his reward. This is how We reward the wrongdoers So he started with their vessels before his brother's vessel, then extracted them from his brother's vessel Likewise, we told Joseph that he would not take his brother into the religion of the king unless God willed We raise the ranks of whomsoever We will, and above all those with knowledge is the Knower They said: If he steals, a brother of his had stolen before, so Joseph kept it within himself and did not show it to them. He said, “You are in the worst place, and God knows best what you describe.” They said, O dear one, he has an old father, so take one of us in his place. We see you as one of the doers of good He said, “God forbid that we take anything except from whom we find our goods. Indeed, then we would be wrongdoers.” When they despaired of him, they were saved, and the eldest among them said, “Did you not know that your father had taken a covenant from God upon you, and before what you responded to Joseph?” I will not leave the earth until my father gives me permission or God rules for me, and He is the best of judges Return to your father and say, “O our father, your son stole, and we only testified to what we knew, and we were not guardians of the unseen.” He asked the village in which we were and the caravan to which we arrived, and we are truthful He said, “Rather, I asked yourselves to do something, so patience was beautiful.” May God bring them all to me. He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise He turned away from them and said, “How sorry for Joseph,” and his eyes turned white with sadness, for he was depressed They said, “By God, you will continue to remember Joseph until you become a victim or become one of those who perish.” He said, “I only complain of my grief and sadness to God, and I know from God what you do not know.” My sons, go and feel for Joseph and his brother and do not despair And do not despair of the Spirit of God. No one despairs of the Spirit of God except the disbelieving people When they entered upon him, they said, O Mighty One, calamity has befallen us and our people, and we have brought mixed goods, so we gave the measure and you gave us alms. Indeed, God rewards those who give alms. He said, “Do you know what you did to Joseph and his brother, since you were ignorant?” They said, "Are you? Because you are Joseph." He said, "I am Joseph. This is my brother. God has bestowed upon us. He who fears and is patient, God will not waste the reward of the doers of good." They said, “By God, God has preferred you over us, even if we were wrong.” He said, "There is no blame on you today. May God forgive you, and He is the Most Merciful of those who show mercy. Go with this shirt of mine and throw it on my father's face. He will come to see, and bring all your families to me." When the caravan was separated, their father said, “I can smell the scent of Joseph, had it not been for you.” They said, “By God, you are in your old error.” When he delivered the glad tidings, he threw him on his face, and he returned, seeing. He said, “Did I not tell you that I know better than God what you do not know?” They said, O Father, we ask forgiveness for our sins, for we were sinners He said, “I will ask my Lord for forgiveness for you. Indeed, He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.” When they entered upon Joseph, his parents took him to him and said, “They will enter Egypt, God willing, in safety.” He raised his parents to the throne and bowed down to him in prostration And he said, “O my father, this is the interpretation of a vision from before that my Lord has made real.” He did me good by releasing me from prison and bringing you Bedouins After Satan deviated between me and my brothers Indeed, my Lord is kind to what He wills. Indeed, He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise My Lord, You have given me power and taught me the interpretation of hadiths Creator of the heavens and the earth, you are my guardian in this world and the hereafter Take me to death as a Muslim and join me with the righteous This is news of the unseen that we reveal to you And I was not with them when they made up their mind while plotting And how many people would there be, even if you were guarded by believers And you ask them of no reward for it. It is only a reminder to the worlds As if there is a sign in the heavens and the earth that they pass by while turning away from it Most of them do not believe in God unless they are polytheists Are they secure that the punishment of God will not come upon them suddenly, or that the Hour will come upon them suddenly while they do not perceive it? Say: This is my path. I call to God with insight, myself and those who follow me Glory be to God, and I am not of the polytheists We did not send before you except men to whom We inspired from the people of the towns Did they not travel through the land and see what was the end of those before them? And the abode of the Hereafter is better for those who fear. Do you not understand? Even when the messengers despaired and thought that they had lied, Our victory came to them, and we saved whomever We wished Our punishment will not be turned away from the criminal people Their stories are a lesson for those with understanding It was not a fabricated hadith, but rather a confirmation of what was before him And detailing of everything, and guidance and guidance and mercy for a people who believe