{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/jj02.htm","path":"isl/pro/jj02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/jj02.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nThe Punishment\nof God for His Viceroys\nAs reported\nfrom Al-\u00deumali, he said: I prayed with `Ali ben Al-Husain (PUH) at\ndawn time in Medina and it was Friday, then he went home and I was with\nhim so he called a maid for him called Sakeenah and said to her: no poor\nshall pass by my door without feeding him for today is Friday, so I said:\nnot everyone asks is a poor man indeed, so he answered me: O \u00de\u00e2bit,\nI am afraid that some people that do ask us do really deserve to be feeded\nand we would not feed him and then shall come unto us what came unto Jacob\nand his household, and Jacob used to slay everyday a ram and give the poor\npeople and eat from it with his children, and then came to his door a stranger\nthat had faith and high level for God and came to the door of Jacob one\nFriday evening while it was the time for him to break his fasting and called\nat the steps of the door: feed the hungry poor stranger from what you have\nand he did it many times and they could hear him but they did not believe\nhim, and when he was despaired that they would feed him and night came\nover, he came back and complained to God about his hunger and slept with\nan empty stomache and with thanks to God, and Jacob with his houseold spent\nthe night with full stomaches and some of their food is left, so then God\ninspired to Jacob in the morning of that night: O Jacob, you've humilated\nmy servant in such a way that you deserved My punishment with your children,\nO Jacob, the most beloved prophets to Me are those who have mercy on My\npoor servants and feeded them and made themselves like homes for them,\nO Jacob you did not have mercy on My servant \u00d0imy\u00e2l the faithful\nwhen he passed over your door at the time of his fast breaking, and he\nshouted upon you to feed the stranger but you did not answer his calls,\nso he complained about it to Me and he slept with an empty stomache and\nthanked Me and completed his fasting, while you Jacob and your children\nwere satisfied with plenty of your food left, did you not know O Jacob\nthat My punishment come to My viceroys in a faster manner rather than it\ncomes to My enemies, and that is because I love My viceroys, and I let\nMy enemies gradually follow their doom, I swear by My Exaltation that I\nshall reveal upon you My tests and troubles, and I shall make you and your\nchildren a target for My troubles, so get ready for My troubles. Then Al-\u00deum\u00e2li\nsaid to `Ali ben Al-Husain (PUH): when did Joseph saw his dream? He answered:\nat that night that Jacob and his children slept with full stomaches and\n\u00d0imy\u00e2l slept with an empty stomache, and so when Joseph saw his\ndream and told it to his father Jacob, Jacob became sad and God inspired\nunto him that he should be ready for the test, so then Jacob said to Joseph:\ndon't tell your brothers about this dream for I am afraid that they might\ntrick you, but he did not keep his dream in secret and he told it to his\nbrothers, and the first trouble that came upon Jacob and his household\nwas envying Joseph when they heard about his dream, so then Jacob had more\npity for Joseph and he was afraid that what God inspired to him about the\ntroubles would be in Joseph in special, so he took care of him so much\nrather than his brothers, so then when the brothers of Joseph so what Joseph\nhas of high place for their father, it had been so hard for them and started\nto plot for him and said: Joseph and his brother (Benjamin) are more beloved\nfor our father than us, so kill Joseph or throw him to the ground and you\nshall be the interest of your father and you shall become good people after\nhim, and then they went to their father and said what was told in quran:\nO our father! Why wilt thou not trust us with Joseph..etc(Yousof:11), and\nhis answer to them was: Lo! in truth it saddens me that ye should take\nhim with you, and I fear less the wolf devour him while ye are heedless\nof him(Yousof:13), and the explanation will come later on by God's will.\nFor Joseph was the most beloved\nson to Jacob, his brothers envied him for this, and God did tell their\nstory in His holy book, and been told by his prophet (PUH) and the story\nspread among his nation, and God did take the soul of Jacob in Egypt and\nhe was one hundred fourty years old, then his son Joseph carried him to\nPalestine and buried him there beside Abraham and Isaac, and God also took\nthe soul of Joseph in Egypt and he was one hundred twenty years old, and\nhe was put in a tomb made of marble and blocked in lead and then been painted\nwith paints to protect it from the air and water and then the tomb was\nthrown in the Nile towards the city of Manaf, and there lies his mosque\nas it was told, and it is mentioned also that Joseph ordered for his body\nto be carried out back beside his father Jacob at the mosque of Abraham,\nand peace shall be upon our prophet and his Houseold from God, and His\nmercy and blessings.\nNext: Joseph The Righteous (PUH)","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Jacob and Joseph: The Punishment of God for His Viceroys","type":"page"}