{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/jj04.htm","path":"isl/pro/jj04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/jj04.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nGifts Are in Troubles\nGod's\ngift to Joseph was in his beauty which was a source of trouble for him,\nand his first trouble was a source for the greatest gift for him and for\nhis household, and some said: maybe gifts are in troubles, and his troubles\nstarted by the wife of the noble by looking at him and at his manners with\nhis unusual beauty and so then he owned herself and she became a prisoner\nof his love and that increased by each time she used to see him until love\ntook off her shyness and she started to flirt with Joseph but he was refusing\nfor two things, his faith in God and God's protection for him and his sincerity\nto God and God's purification for him as well as for his fathers Abraham,\nIshmael, Isaac and Jacob (PUT), and the second thing is that her husband\nwas his master that was generous towards him and gave him a full control\nover the house and trusted him like no one else, and how come someone like\nhim to face such gifts with such a great awful deed, and if some man does\nnot have a religion and does not believe in the after-life, he would not\nface such gifts with such an awful deed.\nJoseph was so careful for her tricks\nand kept of saving his dignity ad honour and his high place until she got\nexcited by love and went on to satisfy her desires and said it frankly\nto him and called him to her as a master would command his servant to do\nsomething without refusing, and she prepared everything, and so she lifted\nup her veil and she appeared to him with her full ornaments and she was\npretty, and was one of the prettiest women at her time, and then she closed\nthe doors and said to him: come to me, but he denied and said: I seek refuge\nin God! Lo! he is my lord, who hath treated me honourably. Lo! wrong-doers\nnever prosper. Look to this trouble and critical situation that shows the\nstrong faith and honour. A young man is called by his beautiful lady but\nhe refuses for the sake of his faith and religion and for the sake of his\nmaster as well, and then he faces the door to escape from the devil of\nher evil act while she was pulling his shirt until it was torn from behind,\nand he gets away from her and they both race toward the door, he wants\nto open it and she want to keep him away from that, and then shows up her\nmaster and her husband, this is a weird scene and a strange matter, so\nmeditate and read the holy phrases that are related to this matter from\nthe chapter of Yousof: And she, in whose house he was, asked of him an\nevil act. She bolted the doors and said: Come! He said: I seek refuge in\nAllah! Lo! he is my lord, who hath treated me honourably. Lo! wrong-doers\nnever prosper. She verily desired him, and he would have desired her if\nit had not been that he saw the argument of his Lord. Thus it was, that\nWe might ward off from him evil and lewdness. Lo! he was of Our chosen\nslaves(Yousof:23-24).\nMaybe what is meant by \"he is my\nlord, who hath treated me honourably\" is the noble of Egypt, and he is\nAl-Rayy\u00e2n ben Al-Waleed, the giant and the husband of Zalikh\u00e2,\nand in Torah he is Qatfeer (Potiphar) as it had been told, and we've pointed\nout that before that he took care of him and educated him to be for him\nas a son, and for this his reward should not be dishonesty, and also for\nthat God, his Creator, gifted him and made the heart of His servants so\nkind to him, so how should he do wrong against Him.\nMany sayings had been told about\nthe interpretation of God's saying \"and he would have desired her if it\nhad not been that he saw the argument of his Lord\", for that everyone knows\nthat he is infallible, and the best of interpretations is that he refused\nfor he saw the argument of his Lord and it is understood from \"would.\"\nWhat is attributed to Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH) is that the argument was the\nprophecy that prevents wrong-doings, and as attributed to Al-Ridh\u00e2\n(PUH) in his answer to Al-Ma'mun's [an Abbasid ruler] question about the\ninfallibility of the prophets and God's saying \"and he would have desired\nher...etc\" is that if he did not see the argument of his Lord he would\ndesired her as she desired him but he was infallible and the infallible\nman would not desire a guilt and never do a wrong-doing.\nIt is said that he desired not to\ndo while she desired to do [notice that the English translation for the\nholy phrase from quran differ a bit from that in Arabic], and in another\nsaying: she desired the wrong-doing but Joseph desired her to kill her\nif she forced him, so God avoided him the killing and adultery, and it\nis God's saying: Thus it was, that We might ward off from him evil and\nlewdness(Yousof:24), which means killing and adultery. We've mentioned\nthat when she desired him she went to an idol and covered him with a cloth,\nso then Joseph said to her: are you shy of what hears not, sees not, understand\nnot, eats not and drinks not and I do not be shy of who created the man\nand taught him? And that is God's saying:\u00a0 if it had not been that\nhe saw the argument of his Lord(Yousof:24) as it is attributed to Al-Sajj\u00e2d\n(PUH). They attributed some things to Joseph and some tales that could\nnot be mentioned by a muslim or believe in, most of them attributed to\nthe interpretation of God's saying: She verily desired him, and he would\nhave desired her..etc. Some of them said that the wife of the noble desired\nJoseph and he desired her and sat beside her and just before the doing\nGabriel came down and told him that he will be a prophet and this is the\nargument of his Lord, and some said that the argument was that he saw the\nface of his father rebuking him for doing so, and another said that when\nJoseph was in that condition God called him and said to him: O Joseph you\nare destined to be with the prophets, and you are doing the deeds of wrong-doers?\nThe saying that such a deed was done by him before he becomes a prophet\nand such a deed is not avoided by prophets before their prophecy and such\ncold sayings are all might be issued by foolish people or people that are\nnot ashamed by themselves. Some scholars said: some of them who have relations\nto this story, and they are Joseph, the noble's wife and her husband, the\nwomen, and the witnesses, the devil and God, they all emphasized the innocence\nof Joseph so no muslim should discuss this matter. Joseph said: She it\nwas who asked of me an evil act(Yousof:26), and also he said: O my Lord!\nPrison is more dear than that unto which they urge me(Yousof:33), and the\nwoman (wife of the noble) said: I asked of him an evil act, but he proved\ncontinent(Yousof:32), and also she said: Now the truth is out. I asked\nof him an evil act(Yousof:51), and her husband said: Lo! this is of the\nguile of you women. Lo! the guile of you is very great(Yousof:28). The\nwomen said: The ruler's wife is asking of her slave-boy an ill-deed. Indeed\nhe has smitten her to the heart with love. We behold her in plain aberration(Yousof:30),\nand also they said: Allah Blameless! We know no evil of him(Yousof:51),\nand the witnesses said: And a witness of her own folk testifie..etc(Yousof:26).\nGod said: Thus it was, that We might ward off from him evil and lewdness.\nLo! he was of Our chosen slaves(Yousof:24), and the Satan confirmed this\nby saying: Then, by Thy might, I surely will beguile them every one, Save\nThy single-minded slaves among them(Sad:82-83), and so he admitted that\nhe will not be able to beguile Joseph because he is one of His single-minded\nslaves (chosen slaves), as God said about Joseph before. We say that those\nsilly people that attributed to Joseph such evil act or deed, if they were\nmuslims and follow the religion of God, they must accept God's describion\nfor Joseph for his purification and infallibility, and if they were followers\nfor Satan they must also accept the confession of the Satan about the infallibility\nof Joseph as well.\nAbout this matter, said Abdul-Wah\u00e2b\nAl-Najj\u00e2r: the people that said such things did not understand God's\nsaying: Thus it was, that We might ward off from him evil and lewdness.\nLo! he was of Our chosen slaves(Yousof:24), so how come He wards off from\nhim evil while he was ready to do the evil-act and listened already to\nthe devil and how come he did not stop as they said except after he saw\nthings that made him keep away and then he is described as one of the chosen\nslaves? Then he continued: the one who said such sayings (about Joseph)\nis ignorant about God's saying:\u00a0 Allah knoweth best with whom to place\nHis message(Al-An`\u00e2m:124), so God's message is chosen for those who\nhave the good deeds, and God does not choose for His message those people\nof evil-acts, and He choose them to carry on His message and prevents them\nfrom anything that can be a source of mocking at them, and what is greater\nin shame more than someone going to do an evil-act and never back until\nhe sees something that makes him keep away, thus he (`Abdul-Wah\u00e2b\nAl-Najj\u00e2r) did say good, and he did good by pointing out that God's\ndesire to guide people and teach them does not coincide with someone that\ndid something bad or evil-act.\nZalikh\u00e2, the wife of the noble,\nloved Joseph or his beauty but he did not care about it and did not change\nhis position towards God who gave him the greatest of virtues, and she\nwas defamed for the first time by her love and she lied to get rid of the\nshame and to take revenge of him for not obeying her commands, and so her\nexcuse was worse than her guilt inspite of her love to him that reached\nthe core of her heart, but she was not good in getting rid blame by doing\nthis, and she had the chance to get to the right path again but love took\nover her again and she promised him to be imprisoned if he did not obey\nher wishes, and all of that got into the public and women started to talk\nabout her and blame her for doing such a thing and then she started to\nplot against them, and she invited some of them who blamed her and prepared\nthe fruit and knives and then she ordered him to show up for them and when\nthey saw him they started cutting their hands and shared his love with\nher and to ask for the evil act, because his beauty is not something that\nhuman beings used to see, for his beauty is above the beauty of human beings,\nand then she said to them: She said: This is he on whose account ye blamed\nme. I asked of him an evil act, but he proved continent, but if he do not\nmy behest he verily shall be imprisoned, and verily shall be of those brought\nlow(Yousof:32).\nNext: Getting Joseph Into The Jail","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Jacob and Joseph: Gifts Are in Troubles","type":"page"}