{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/jj06.htm","path":"isl/pro/jj06.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/jj06.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nGetting Out From\nThe Jail to The King of Egypt\nGod desired not but to make things go\nalong for a reason, for He said: We made a reason for everything. When\nGod wanted to release Joseph (PUH) after many years in jail, He prepared\na reason for him, and the king saw his dream about seven fat cows getting\nout of the river and went into a green field, then he saw seven ugly thin\ncows getting out of the river also and ate the seven fat cows, then he\nwoke up and slept again and then he saw seven good ears of grain and behind\nthem seven bad ears of grain, and the bad grains ate the good ones, and\nthen in the morning the king became so annoyed about these two dreams.\nThen he called for the magicians and priests to interpret this dream, but\nnone could give an answer, and they said to him: Jumbled dreams! And we\nare not knowing in the interpretation of dreams(Yousof:44). At that time\nthe cupbearer recognized and remembered what happened to him with his friend\nwith Joseph (PUH) in the prison and so pointed out to the king that only\nJoseph can solve this puzzle, and he interpreted their dreams as if he\nwas looking what will happen by his eyes, and so when he suggested that\nto the king and suggested that he goes to Joseph in jail and ask him, the\nking sent him to Joseph and when he saw him he said: Joseph! O thou truthful\none! Expound for us the seven fat kine which seven lean were eating and\nthe seven green ears of corn and other (seven) dry(Yousof:46). Then Joseph\n(PUH) interpreted that for him and that is Egypt will face seven fertile\nyears and then will be followed by dry seven years that will empty the\ngranaries from grains, and so they have to manage this so that when the\ndry seven years come they would find something to live by until things\nwould get back to normal as it was before.\nThen the cupbearer got back to the\nking with his interpretation with details, and when he heard that he got\ndelighted and knew that it is the truth for it goes along with the dream's\nsymbols, and also for he knew before how truthful he is, and also he interpreted\nthe dreams for the servants and it happened as he said, then the king said:\nbring him to me, and when he ordered that, Joseph denied going out of the\nprison until he knows that reason for being here in the first place and\nasked the king to ask the women that cut their hands before, and so when\nhe brought them and asked them about Joseph they said: Allah Blameless!\nWe know no evil of him, God did say about that: And the king said: Bring\nhim unto me. And when the messenger came unto him, he (Joseph) said: Return\nunto thy lord and ask him what was the case of the women who cut their\nhands. Lo! my Lord knoweth their guile..etc(Yousof:50). Joseph did not\nlike going out of the jail with people considering him still as a criminal,\nand so he desired not to go out of jail unless with honour and innocence\nand never mocked for any mistake, and when all the women testified that\nhe was innocent then the wife of the king (noble) found no escape to confess\nand admit the truth and for this she said: Now the truth is out. I asked\nof him an evil act, and he is surely of the truthful(Yousof:51).\nWhat we understand that Joseph (PUH)\nhad a high place in jail and everyone respected him and he became like\na ruler for the jail and everyone that comes in there and this is pointed\nout by the speech of the cupbearer of the king and also the king's messenger\nwith Joseph when he said \"Joseph! O thou truthful one!, Expound for us\nthe seven fat kine..etc.\" Then when the women testified for the innocence\nof Joseph and the wife of the noble (king) saw that the one who put him\nin prison, now working on getting him closer, and that the charges made\nagainst him did not change anything of his high place, she became humble\nfor his high place and gave up her anger against him and became tender\ntowards him for he had places in her heart, and she got back to the path\nof truth after charging him for things he did not do, while she insisted\non that all the past years, and so she confessed what no woman would confess\nagainst herself, and she gave up the secret that she kept away from her\nhusband and her relatives and said: Now the truth is out. I asked of him\nan evil act, and he is surely of the truthful. (Then Joseph said: I asked\nfor) this, that he (my lord) may know that I betrayed him not in secret(Yousof:51-52),\nand she said: I do not exculpate myself. Lo! the (human) soul enjoineth\nunto evil(Yousof:53), and when the noble of Egypt saw the situation and\nsaw how high is Joseph and how he is able to do what others can not do,\nand how trustful he is, he ordered for him to be out of jail and said to\nhim: Lo! thou art to-day in our presence established and trusted(Yousof:54),\nand since Joseph did not mind going out to the king, he went out and answered\nthe king for his request, and he liked his logic and his wisdom, he (the\nking) asked him: what job you like to take that brings happiness to you?\nSo he said: Set me over the storehouses of the land. Lo! I am a skilled\ncustodian(Yousof:55), and so God said: Thus gave We power to Joseph in\nthe land. He was the owner of it where he pleased(Yousof:56). Al-\u00dea`labi\nmentioned in his book \"`Ar\u00e2'is Al-Maj\u00e2lis\" that the king of\negypt which was Al-Rayy\u00e2n ben Al-Waleed believed in God by the help\nof Joseph after that he saw how truthful he was and made Joseph take care\nof the storehouses in the land. Also said Al-\u00dea`labi: when Al-Rayy\u00e2n\ndied, Q\u00e2bus ben Mos`ab ben Al-Rayy\u00e2n became a king after him,\nand he did not believe in God and was a tyrant, and he died, then his brother\nAbu-Al-`Abb\u00e2s Al-Waleed ben Mos`ab ben Al-Rayy\u00e2n became a king.\nIt is seems to be that Al-Rayy\u00e2n\nben Al-Waleed was their grandfather and the speech of Al-\u00dea`labi\nwas about the conditions of Moses (PUH) and it is a long speech with lot\nof details, and he mentioned that the pharaohs that ruled the Israelites\nwere four: Al-Rayy\u00e2n, the noble of Egypt, and Q\u00e2bus ben Mos`ab,\nand his brother Al-Waleed ben Mos`ab ben Al-Rayy\u00e2n and the fourth\nwas the pharaoh of Moses (PUH) and he was the most tyrant of all, and God\nknows better.\nAbout this matter, Torah mentioned\nwhat is in summary: Then Joseph said to them: you must save the fifth of\nthe lands production in the fertile years for the dry years, and to be\nready to face famine, and this should be done by guards all over the land.\nThen the pharaoh said to his soldiers: can we find someone like this man?\nThen he looked at Joseph and said: we do not have someone like you in wisdom\nso you shall manage all the matters, but I will be higher than you in place,\nand also said the pharaoh to him: I've appointed you all over the land\nof Egypt, and then took off his ring from his finger and placed it in the\nhand of Joseph, and made him wear his clothes and put around his neck a\ngolden necklace and made him ride in his second chariot and called for\nthe people to prostrate before him, and he appointed him all over the land\nof Egypt and the owner of commands and he made him marry the daughter of\nFuti-F\u00e2re` (Potiphera) the priest of Ur-Asn\u00e2t (On), and Joseph\nat that time was thirty years old when he had the kingdom of Egypt and\nmarried Asn\u00e2t (Asenath), then Joseph went out all around Egypt to\nnote what should be done for the hard years and to face the famine, and\nthen he went on working to order and took care of matters in all the fields\nand crafts, and only the king was higher than him.\nWhat we understand from clues is\nthat after the death of the king of Egypt all the rule came into the hands\nof Joseph without anyone opposing this for they knew how just and wise\nhe was, and there were no bad deeds for him to mock at him, and so he was\na brilliant worker and wise noble, and so Joseph became the king after\nthe death of the king, and all the others were his assistors, and it is\nmentioned that after the death of the king and that was during the dry\nyears, the wife of the king, Zalikh\u00e2 became so poor and needy, so\nthey said to her: wouldn't you see the king, and it was Joseph (PUH), she\nsaid: I am shy of him, but they insisted until they made her sit in his\nway, and so when Joseph approached with his march she stood for him and\nsaid to him: O thanks be to God that made the kings slaves by the evil\nacts, and made the slaves kings by their worshipping, so then Joseph said\nto her and she was old: did not you do me this and that? She said then:\nO prophet of God do not blame me, I was troubles with three that none was\ntroubled with before, and he asked: what are they? She said: I was troubled\nwith your love and God did not create some one like you, and I was troubled\nwith my beauty for there were no woman as pretty as I was and nor had money\nas much as I did, and I was troubled with my husband for he was impotent,\nso then Joseph said to her: what is your need? She said: ask God to get\nme back my youth, and so he did and her youth was back to her, and then\nJoseph married her and she was virgin, and there is another tale about\nthis matter but incremented with that he mentioned Muhammad (PUH) and mentioned\nthat he is better than him in creation and so she believed in him and God\nordered him to marry her and so he did.\nNext: The Beginning of Easiness\nFor The Household of Jacob (PUH)","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Jacob and Joseph: Getting Out From The Jail to The King of Egypt","type":"page"}