{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/jj07.htm","path":"isl/pro/jj07.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/jj07.htm","text":"The Beginning\nof Easiness For The Household of Jacob (PUH)\nAs attributed to Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH)\nthat he said: a nomad came to Joseph to buy some food and he sold some\nto him, and when he finished Joseph said to him: where is your home? He\nanswered: in (some) location, so then he said to him: if you passed by\na valley called (so and so) stand by and call \"O Jacob, O Jacob\" and then\nan old man with nice face will come out to you, then say to him that you\nmet a man in Egypt and he says peace for you and says that your savings\nin that hands of God will never astray, and so when the nomad reached that\nlocation he called: O Jacob, O Jacob, so then an old and tall blind man\ngot out for him keeping his track by his hand on the walls, and so then\nhe told him what Joseph told him to say, and when he heard it he fell down\nin a coma, then he woke up and said to the nomad: O nomad, need anything\nfrom God? He said: yes, I am a man with lot of money and I have a cousin\nthat I did not have any children from and I would like you to ask God for\nme to have children, and so he did, and the nomad's wife got pregnant for\nfour times and in each time she gave birth for a twin. Jacob knew that\nJoseph was alive and did not die and God will show him after his absence,\nand used to say to his children: I know from God that which ye know not.\nThey say that Jacob went to some\none for some purpose, and the man said to him: why you are so old as I\nsee you now? He answered: sadness and troubled, and then when he reached\nthe door God inspired to him: O Jacob, you've complained about me to some\nof my servants, so he fell down prostrating at the door step and he was\nsaying: I will not do it again, then God inspired to him: I forgive you\nfor this, but do not do it again, and then he did not complain about any\nof life's troubles to any one, but one day he said: I expose my distress\nand anguish only unto Allah, and I know from Allah that which ye know not(Yousof:86).\nWe've mentioned before how sad Jacob\nwas for Joseph in the tale attributed to Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH) when he said:\nlike the sadness of seventy mothers that lost their children. It is attributed\nto Ibn-`Abb\u00e2s that he said: when the household of Jacob suffered\nas all other people suffered of famine, he (Jacob) gathered his children\nand said to them: O children I've heard that in Egypt they sell there some\nnice food and it's owned by a faithful man, so go to him and buy some food\nfrom him, so then they went to Egypt and they went to Joseph and he knew\nthem but they knew him not, so he asked them about their lands and their\ntribes and where are they from, so they said: we are the children of Jacob\nben Isaac ben Abraham, the friend of God, so he said to them: then, you\nhave three prophets but I do not see any respect in you, and you might\nbe spies from other lands, so they said to him: O king, we are not spies\nnor seeking a war, and if you know our father you would greet us with hospitality\nfor he is one of God's prophets and a son of prophets and he is sad, so\nthen Joseph said to them: and why he is sad and he is a prophet of God\nand also son of prophets and paradise must be his place and he have you\nfor his strength, maybe he is sad for your silliness, then they said: O\nking we are not silly and he is not sad because of us, but once he had\na son that was the youngest of us and he was called Joseph and then he\nwent us for hunting but the wolf devoured him and so he is still sad for\nhim, so then said Joseph: all of you from one father and one mother? They\nsaid: our father is one but our mothers are different, then he said to\nthem: what made your father release you all without keeping one to be with\nhim for his aid? They said: he did indeed and he got the youngest of us,\nhe said to them: and why did he choose him? They said: for he is the most\nbeloved child for him after Joseph, then Joseph said to them: I will keep\none of them with me here, and you get back to your father and say peace\nfrom me to him and tell him to send me his son that you claimed that he\nis keeping with him to tell me what made him (Jacob) sad, and what made\nhim become so old that fast and what made him blind after crying, and when\nhe said that and they knew that there is no escape from this, they made\na ballotting and so Sham`un (Simeon) was chosen for this and so he (Joseph)\nordered for him to be imprisoned, and when they said the farewell to Simeon\nhe said to them: O brothers, see what trouble I am in and say peace to\nmy father from me, so they said the farewell and went to the lands of Shem\nand got to Jacob (PUH) and they said the peace for him so then he said\nto them: O children, why I do not hear the voice of Simeon? They said:\nO father we came from a king that people saw no one like him in wisdom\nand riches, and if you have someone similar to you then he is the one but\nwe are a household that was made for troubles, and the king charged us\nand did not believe us unless you send Benjamin with us with a message\nfrom you telling him about your sadness and about the reason for becoming\nso old so fast and about your crying and blindness, so then Jacob thought\nthat this is a plot that they made so he said to them: woe to you O my\nchildren for your habit, everytime you go out for a purpose one of you\nis missed, I will not send him with you.When they opened their when they\nopened their belongings they discovered that their merchandise had been\nreturned to them. They said: O our father! What (more) can we ask? Here\nis our merchandise returned to us, then Jacob said: you knew that Benjamin\nis beloved to me after your brother Joseph and with him is my joy, so I\nwill not send him with you till ye give me an undertaking in the name of\nAllah that ye will bring him back to me, unless ye are surrounded, then\nJudah assured him for this and they went out until they reached Egypt and\nwent to Joseph and said to him: did you tell my message? They said: yes,\nand this kid have your answers so ask him about what you want, so Joseph\nsaid to him: what did your father send you to me for? He said: he sent\nme to you to say peace for you and he says that you sent messengers asking\nabout my sadness and why I got older so fast and about my crying and blindness,\nfor the saddest of people are those who remember the after-life, and been\nolder so fast for I do remember the doomsday always, my crying and blindness\nall are for my beloved Joseph, and I've been told that you are sad for\nmy sadness and you cared about my story and may God rewards you with the\nbest, and the best you can do to me is that you send me back my son Benjamin\nfor he is my beloved son after Joseph, and hurry up with what I can help\nby my children. When he said all of that, Joseph could not hold hisself\nand went inside crying for one hour and then he went out and ordered for\nsome food for them and said to them: every group of one mother let them\nsit together on one table, so they sat but Benjamin kept on standing, so\nthen he said to him: why don't you take a seat? He said: none of them is\nmy brother from the same mother, then Joseph said: yes there is one, but\nthey claimed that the wolf devoured him, then said: how sad are you for\nhim? He (Benjamin) said: I had twelve children and everyone of them have\na name that is derived from his name (Joseph's name), then said Joseph:\nseems you ran after women and children after him, so then said Benjamin:\nI have a faithful father and he said to me once: get married maybe God\nwill give you children that fill the lands with their hyming to God, so\nthen Joseph said to him: come and sit with me on my own table, then his\nbrothers said: God preferred Joseph and his brother even the king made\nhim sit with him, and then Joseph ordered for the cup of the king to be\nin the saddlebag of Benjamin.","title":"Jj07","type":"page"}