Mohammad Elshinawy – Best of Stories – Study of Surat Yusuf #02

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through to our weekly discussion on the best of stories, which are the stories of the Koran and we
are in the midst of discussing some reflections in Sharla on the benefits and the lessons that we
can take, or some of which we can take from the story of Yusuf Ali Salaam, the story that is
mentioned to us in the 12th chapter of the Quran, the chapter of use of an eye may come across a bit
rushed today.
		

			I'll try my best to focus but my phone has told me while I was reciting that it's a little better.
So this will let's get straight to it. So this is like the first scene if you will, of the story.
Alonzo Genesis is all I used to fully abbyy when Yousuf said to his father, yeah ever at all my dear
father in New York at or hadash iraq al Qaeda, I have seen meaning in my dream at night or in my
dream as I sleep. I had dark shadow killcare but I live in Calcutta. Calcutta is like a heavenly
body, a star right planet. So 11 stars essentially, was shumsa will Kamara and I saw the sun also
and the moon, Lisa G. Dean, all of them to me. They were prostrating.
		

			And so his father says to him, yeah, Belinda. Yeah. Oh, my dear son.
		

			Let us know. So why don't you mention anything about this dream to your brothers? In Shavasana. In
insomnia I do mobian because the devil is a sworn or a clear
		

			an enemy to the human being.
		

			And so let's begin from the Statement of Use of Allah. He said, when he said to his father, yeah,
Betty Oh, my dear father in the writer had Ashoka cabin with him. So we'll come right to him Lisa
God, my father I saw
		

			11 stars and the sun and the moon prostrating to me. So according to most scholars,
		

			the 11 stars are his brothers for sure. And then the scholars, the majority of them, they say that
the sun in this dream symbolizes the mother. And the moon symbolizes the Father.
		

			And as we said, the stars will symbolize the brothers. And so why
		

			this is
		

			much to reflect on but maybe one of the worthiest things to reflect on is that
		

			when our parents who are the most pronounced symbols of light and instruction and direction for us
no longer exists, the sun has to be gone. And the moon has to be gone for you to really consider the
stars, a source of light. And so when our parents do go, our world does get dark. But even in that
darkness, there is some light, some lights for navigation sunlight to remind us of the light of the
sun and the moon.
		

			And those are the more distant relatives like the brothers and beyond. And so they'll offer our
emotional darkness, a little bit of reminder a little bit of hope. They'll remind us of our parents,
they'll connect us to our parents who are not physically with us anymore. And that is extremely
important. And they'll also connect us to a largely closed opportunity,
		

			which is being kind to our parents because the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam actually connected
the two and he said in I mean I've got really bidri and a better rajul Hello, would you agree Abbey
is one of the greatest acts of kindness to your parents, for a person to show kindness to those that
his father
		

			of course is
		

			Mother as well showed affection to.
		

			And so that could even be the Friends of your parents. So what about the, those that the wombs of
your parents bore those that are from the lineage of Descendants of your direct father otherwise,
and so they are a navigation mechanism, the the stars, the the more distant relatives, because you
are lost without keeping ties with your family really the same way the stars if you don't keep sight
of them before GPS, right. And before mother navigation complexes and otherwise, they were
everything they were a survival mechanism, keeping ties with your relatives is a survival mechanism,
spiritually speaking, and the Baraka of your life is totally void if there's no height, and you're
		

			no good, and you extended to your family members. And so that's the reflections that that meant a
lot to me that I heard Dr. Bunda shall already have it all I mentioned here. The second thing is
Yusuf Ali Salaam, mentioned the dream to who he mentioned the dream to his father. And that was from
the great intelligence of young Yusuf Alayhi Salam that he mentioned the dream to his father, not
his mother.
		

			Some scholars say his mother was not alive at that point to begin with.
		

			But even if she were alive, even if she were alive, the best person to go give you insight about
your dream would have been your father, since your father is a prophet, right? jacoba his solemn was
a prophet. And in general, identifying which dreams are inspirations from Allah, which are just
scare tactics from shaitaan, which are just products of your subconscious mind. Because those are
the three categories not all dreams have meaning.
		

			Some of just are what you're thinking about or how heavy you've eaten that night. Some of them are
just shaped on trying to scare you, out of your wits, or out of your prudence and dreams that look
promising or are encouraging. Those are inspiration from Allah subhanho wa Taala. So identifying
which one it belongs to almost anyone that knows the three categories can pretty much do this, but
then deciphering understanding, which are the meanings intended by that third dream, the dream the
category of inspirations from Allah subhanho wa Taala has to be someone versed in dream
interpretation. This is a science, this is a discipline.
		

			And so you don't just go to someone that wishes well for you, because that would have been your
mother or your father, right? In this case, you go to someone that wishes well for you that knows
how to interpret dreams. That's very important. Because many people they just rush with their
dreams. So just anyone if they're scary dreaming too much attention at all. You're not allowed to
you should not because it's you're going to give it more validation when it is baseless.
		

			So if inspiration from a law you feel like it has a potential of being an inspiration, you take it
to someone who can decipher it for you. Otherwise, you could be putting yourself through so much
unnecessary stress and distress and fear. When you take your dream to the wrong person. You could be
handing them your future because like they'll tell you something as if it's a prophecy and it's not.
And so you wind up living up to what you imagine the future can't avoid, but to being you just live
what you think is inevitable it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. So Yusuf Ali said I had the
intelligence of not gone to someone who could even with good intentions, have them have him walk
		

			away with an interpretation that couldn't be farther from the truth.
		

			Also, this is very important use a valid, Sam correctly assumed that his father would give him the
time of day
		

			would give him time to attentively listen to his dream. This is jacoba a celeb who was a prophet, a
leader of venomous about youth. This is yahoo. alehissalaam, who had 11 other sons, but
		

			Yousuf knew that that would give me time. And so you know, we need to realize that those that look
up to us, our children or the kids in the masjid or otherwise, countless ambitions of the youngsters
are buried and talents that are just overlooked and they never like develop into something that
could have otherwise been.
		

			This happens a lot of times when youngsters don't find their parents or they don't find their elders
or their their mentors validating something that they may think is important, right dreams many
times are to be dismissed. By the way, as we said, some categories two out of three categories are
to be dismissed. But if it meant something to a person, you want to hear them out, right? To
validate to them, because that is important, even if what they consider important is not important.
It's trivial, but how they feel is not trivial. And so Yusuf Ali Salam thought his dad would listen
and found that his dad did listen and even gave him feedback based on the dream
		

			And that confidence will
		

			open the door for them to come to you so you can also give them life advice give them insight on
what they should do not just about their dreams and about their their dilemmas when it comes to life
management decisions moving on quickly and forgive me once again for the rush that says the
battery's low
		

			jacoba he said I'm says in the next verse yeah buena yeah Oh my dear son laptops Osaka aquatic do
not relay this dream of yours to your brothers. Do not delayed relate this dream to your brothers
fakie du Lac Akita or else they might
		

			plot against you?
		

			Because shavon is a clear enemy to the human being. So first of all, he said the Abuja My dear son,
you see Ebony is my son bonia. They call them unit to form those lead form. You know, when you love
someone so much you say you turn like parents, they see their elder child who could be 2530 4050
years old hurts, they say more to my baby, right, the diminutive form.
		

			And so the Arabic should do this as well. And so the father reciprocated with the extra respect that
his son gave him by saying get back to my dear father, he reciprocated in kind equally, he said, Oh,
my dear son, one for one.
		

			Because Allah azza wa jal, even in our shediac, he commanded us with this and sort of any set, we
find a lot of zoa jen saying,
		

			well, either for you to be the head infohio, VX and I mean, how to do when you are greeted with a
certain greeting, then respond back with better than if that's what you should do. Ideally, elders
do have or meaning at the very least, if nothing else, respond, meaning reciprocate in kind. And
that's why when someone has said, I want a club, you have to say at least why they come and set out,
ideally, why they come and sit down or why they come and sit on the hill, but a guy do something to
that effect, ideally, more than just the reciprocation. And so in general, it's not just about the
official greeting of the Muslim, right? Please be upon you. When someone says something to you. Take
		

			a moment, stop, slow down, and make sure you say back to them, at least, but ideally, back to them.
And then some, as they say.
		

			And also when he says yeah, when are you Oh, my dear son, this, this form of endearment, this
language of endearment he uses. This is an expression of love, right? expression of endearment, it's
very important because we all love our kids, right? But the expressions of love, not the
internalized love, are those that instill in our children. That I mean, so much, to my parents, you
know, they may not understand that you're working so hard, or they may not see that you're stressing
about them, you know, mentally or at night when they're asleep. And, but there's those expressions
of love that ensure to them to them that I can, you know, have confidence in my parents when I can
		

			spell out for them my struggles.
		

			Those are the subconscious memories, sometimes. They may not remember even the statement, but they
remember how they felt from those kinds of endearing expressions. And so they will revere us when
we're in old age, they'll be with us. In those times, they'll make that for us when we're not around
at all. Because of how we made them feel. It is so much more imprinting to express your love than
just to hope they understand your language of love or your dedication to them because of your love
or otherwise. It's very important.
		

			He says, Let's accessory aka athletic My dear son, don't tell your brothers about this dream.
		

			Why? Because they're gonna be jealous. The stream means that your parents and all your brothers who
are older than you and your parents are older than you and all of them are prophets, they're all
going to prostrate to you. prostration. Here, of course being honoring, not in worshipping because
Allah never legislated in any of the shadows, any of the specific laws of the prophets worship of
oven him No way. Right. But it was an act of honoring and so he would be honored such a high state
		

			that simply the possibility of that would get them to
		

			feel resentful towards you. And then there's a lesson there that some souls are so weak that even
your dreams can spark jealousy in them. And so don't be naive. conceal your blessings from people as
best as you can from most people except those that you trust. Most. Islam prescribe that for us to
conceal our blessings as best we can.
		

			from as many people as possible except those that you're sure will share in the joy with you. They
will not become envious or jealous or or malicious.
		

			And that's also a lesson here that iacobelli salaam
		

			Had to point out to him that someone as close as his own brothers
		

			could not be as happy about your success as you are.
		

			Many kids because of their innocence, the younger they are, the more innocent they are, they don't
see how that would be possible a lot of times. And sadly, that's what's really sad is that some
adults are just as naive. And they put they caused themselves so much vulnerability, when they are
deluded about the fact that that picture they post or that asset they flaunt,
		

			will will impress people only or make people happy only about no human nature, as you will see
throughout the story.
		

			It is, we want to be distinguished. And if we can't be distinguished, sometimes we become just so
bent on you not being distinguished If I can't have it, no one can.
		

			Also do not tell your brothers this. He cautioned him against his brothers. This is of the proofs
that it's not backbiting, to mention someone in a negative light, if there's no way,
		

			you can ward off harm. without mentioning that there is no other way, I just have to let you know,
some harm can come your way.
		

			And he said to him so that they don't plot against you. So he mentioned to him exactly what needed
to look out for.
		

			And there there are multiple reflections here. But first of all, he didn't say so they'll kill you.
Or so they'll * your dreams away from you or something like that. He just left it open. And
likewise, we have this desire inside of us to like predict exactly how events will unfold. Don't do
this, or else that within you really limited yourself. Because if that didn't happen, then you were
wrong. No, you were right, on the warning, but it was because of a different danger. So don't insist
or like limit yourself by predicting exactly what it would lead up to. Right.
		

			Be humble, so that people see you as credible. It's not assuming you know the full story, it's
enough to say there's something wrong happening here. There's something dangerous happening here.
And also, the last thing I'll say is when when he said to him, Do not tell your brothers less they
scheme against you.
		

			He gave him an explanation as to why he's prohibiting him from doing something we should instill in
our children respect for elders, for sure. And that's why sometimes you shouldn't demand or feel
entitled to an explanation. But usually, by and large, you want to give children an explanation like
drink milk is good for your bones or get down from here because it's dangerous, because their
inexperience and their curiosity will not allow them to understand why you're prohibiting them from
something, why are you taking away my joy. And so it is important to instill in them that I'm doing
this out of care for you, you give them an explanation more often than not, even if we're gonna
		

			reserve a few occasions, for them to understand that respecting authority means respecting
authority. And if you're approving of my justification, that's not respecting authority that's
respecting the justification, right.
		

			And also, if you never give them explanations, it tells them that force is the way to get things
done, not persuasion. And so they'll start acting that way with others when they are able to know it
is brains are more important than bronze. And while they're going to respect authority, we want them
to know that we respect your intelligence and you should also respect other people's intelligence
		

			regarding how you share your convictions and how you call them to your convictions. That's that's
essential life management also, that we learn from these very short but filled with wisdom phrases
by which a lot chose to tell us these stories. I'll start with those two if today inshallah
		

			and we will continue next week if we are together be admitted later.