Mohammad Elshinawy – Best of Stories – Study of Surat Yusuf 03

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			Smilla hamdulillah salatu salam ala Rasulillah Ali wasabia drain begin the name of Allah All Praise
and Glory be to Allah. Mais find his peace and blessings be upon His messenger Muhammad Salla Allahu
Allahu alayhi wa sallam and his family and his companions and all those who tried his path. We ask
Allah azza wa jal in this final hour of Jamar, this blessed hour, this hour of responsive dua for
Allah to make us and you have the carriers of his book, and of those shielded and shaded by his book
and those transformed as worthy of His pleasure or into being worthy of His pleasure. By virtue of
our dedication and our commitment to his book Allahumma Amin.
		

			May Allah azza wa jal make this Quran a means for us to accelerate towards his paradise and his
company forever. And may Allah azza wa jal protect us from being of those who placed the Quran
behind our backs, and as a result are driven by it into the fire driven because of it into
destruction Allahumma Amin. So we welcome everyone back to our discussions and our reflections on
sort of the use of the story of Yusuf Ali Salaam and the 12th chapter of the Quran. And we concluded
last week at the verse we're in Allah azza wa jal said that Jaco Valley he said, I'm the father
responded to his son Yusuf and said, Oh, my dear son, do not relate this dream of yours, that is
		

			foretelling Your glory or coming greatness to your brothers for yaki do like a Qaeda because they
may plot against you.
		

			In the shaitana, insomnia doom will be in because the shaytaan is a clear enemy to the human being.
And of course, if shaitan is invisible, then how can he be a clear enemy, that will be a
misunderstanding as to what they clear enemy refers to throughout the Quran, a clear meaning Make no
mistake about it, he will forever be your enemy, he will never consider or back down from he's your
permanent enemy, he's your staunchest enemy, he will not go away he will not be negotiated with he
will not sympathize. He is as clear as they get in his enmity to you towards you.
		

			And also, you know, this is very
		

			intelligent and wise have Jacoba Alayhis Salam, before we move on today's something we didn't cover
last week is that he tied the plotting that may happen by the brothers with shaytaan. This is
obviously not equating the brothers of any wrongdoing they may do. In fact, he's warning him against
his brothers. But it's also reminding him that there's an overlap, the human being is not the
shaytaan, but he just so susceptible to shaitan. And so that could help us many times when we have
like some confusion as to how to understand a person could be so evil, or sometimes our kids also
		

			you don't know how to explain to them that this close friend of ours or this relative of ours
performs an open haram in their language and their behavior in their decisions, whatever it is. And
so this is a great advice from Iacobelli. Salaam, you can say to your kids, or even say to yourself
when you're like how can I ever forgive this person for that evil deed? Tell yourself, you know what
shaitan tricked him in that the same way he tricked us in so many other things. And so when we make
dua for ourselves to be protected from Shavon, let's make dua for this person as well. Maybe that
was the help that he that use of Ali salaam needed that subtle help, that helped him forgive his
		

			brothers at the end of the story, as you all know, the fact that he realized that they were in a
sense, though not acquitted of guilt, or of you know, wrongdoing, but in a sense, duped by shaytaan
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			accepting that for themselves.
		

			And then the next is the ICT we will begin with today. Allah azza wa jal continues the status of the
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			or a book and so will your Lord choose you and he bet in the Quran some scholar said only refers to
Prophet to not just choose you to be righteous or choose you to be special HTB only came at some of
the scholars said with regards to prophethood meaning he will choose you or use of as a prophet.
While you're a limo came into reading a hadith and teach you the interpretation of a hadith
statements, dreams events. We'll come back to within sha Allah because it has the potential for all
of these things.
		

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			well, you timoni I mentor who I like and perfect His favor upon you were an early Jacobian upon the
descendants of Jacob or your descendants in mind, camera attempt Maha just has he perfected in the
past upon your forefathers Abraham and Isaac Ibrahima is half in Rebecca Alim and Hakeem your Lord
is all knowing all wise. So think about that there is a plot, but realize that your Lord has chosen
you for something very special, the very special rank of Prophethood from all your brothers he has
chosen you. Though there is some discussion that the other brothers were chosen as prophets. But as
even to cathedra him Allah has it's extremely far fetched to believe that even before prophethood
		

			an individual that would become a prophet could perform the acts that the brothers of Joseph
performed in the story that we will cover.
		

			And so he has chosen you,
		

			in front of they will plot against you. And you know, that's what I didn't feel if you mentioned
something very beautiful that
		

			everyone can plot. But when Allah chooses, then all of the plotting becomes irrelevant. All of the
planning becomes irrelevant. And so when Allah selects a person, for example, to become
distinguished, the most thorough plans, the most vicious storms, the best enemy tactics, they become
Childsplay they become a breeze they become a walk in the park, and the darkest, most sinister
plans, they become daylight. They don't face or harming the least.
		

			And then he said, Oh, your Lord will choose you. And he said, teach you that we didn't have the
thought we'd means interpretation. And it could also mean the outcome.
		

			A Hadith, like Hadith of the Prophet SAW said it means his statement and otherwise, or includes his
statement, at least a hadith is the plural of Hadith, it means statements, the interpretation of
statements, or rule our dreams. The dreams here are called statements. Why perhaps have the wisdom
another lesson in that is that people always talk about their dreams is just part and parcel of
human nature, we just cling to our dreams. And I don't want to get into the potential psychology of
that. That's not my that's above my paygrade. That's not my specialization that belongs to my
sister. She's the psych major. But there are some reflections here about human patterns. But that's
		

			not what we want. What we want is considering these are human patterns, so let's just get past that
point. We should tolerate people and something that's just naturally embedded inside them people
forever for as long as human beings have been around like to talk about their dreams. And so we
should let them whenever they're not obsessing over them or making too much out of them or, you
know, overly relying on them. Let people speak about their dreams. Don't be that person that
interprets without qualification, but also don't be that person that shuts people down when they
want to talk about something that means something to them. The Prophet alayhi salatu salam himself
		

			would ask people if it's after salted vege has any of you seen a dream and so this is something that
even I struggle with, not to say even I but it is just ironic or unfortunate the one sharing the
words
		

			always get stuck on the words that needs to be said for the greater benefit but are awkward and
being said by someone who doesn't live up to them. I struggle with letting people
		

			say their dreams in front of I have to really hold myself why? Because
		

			most people are a lot of people they
		

			they put too much in dreams and so I might go to and now is just and that's wrong. It's just to
almost roll my eyes and here we go again or when the dreams come but at the end of the day, Allah
did give us Quran he did give us sunnah he did give us wise people with real life experiences. He
did give us a staccato prayer. He did give us experts to consult. And so we should not be dismissive
of all of that. That's all I want to say. The non be dismissive of all of that, just because of a
dream that we can't shake off. But we should say let you say your dream whenever you're not being
obsessive or misusing of that dream. Also, you know, it's possible that we can take from this in the
		

			science of dream interpretation that when people have vivid dreams as children, they may become a
person of greater skill or greater aptitude to interpret dreams.
		

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			when they're older, they have greater potential for specializing in that the same way you can notice
his kid will be a good engineer that good will be a good, you know, legal scholars or whatnot or
physician, this person could be skilled at having that heightened sense of making sense of the
dreams, especially when it requires a sixth sense of sorts that has principles, by the way. But you
also have to read a little bit into the personality of the person, two people could have the exact
same dream and it could mean two very different things, because it is a little bit varying based on
the person that saw it. And so perhaps this is of the signs of being skilled at dream interpretation
		

			when you have vivid dreams early. Where do we get that from from our whole ballet salaam, telling
his son,
		

			your Lord is going to teach you the interpretation of dreams, while you Timonium matter who I like
and perfect His favor upon you.
		

			And upon the descendants of Jacob, you know, every one seeks God's favor is a very important lesson.
But to seek the perfection of God's favor,
		

			is something that those best acquainted with Allah know that they should do. What is the perfection
of Allah's favor? I mean, for sure, the most perfect favor from Allah is to be most perfectly
guided, and to be a prophet, but none of us are going to be prophets after the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam sealed prophethood. And so the perfection of favor is for us to be benefited by
whatever things we enjoy whatever secondary favors, we'll call them, or relative favors. The favours
of life and health and wealth and friends and intellect and these favors, to be perfected for you is
for them to be a means of you coming close to Allah. Because every single favor is imperfect, it
		

			could benefit you, it could harm you. But the perfect favor is the favor that brings you close to
Allah. That's the true favor. That's the absolute favor. And that is why when you say Soraka Lavina
and I'm totally human and Fatiha, give me grant me the path of those who favored what is the Who are
those who favored. It did not set off on Mr. Kim guidance to the straight path. And so that's why it
maintained me I said, in reality, whatever brings you any blessing that brings you closer to any
hardship that brings you closer to Allah is a favor from him, and a gift and a blessing. And every
blessing, right what we ordinarily at face value, consider a blessing that brings you far from
		

			Allah. That is a disaster, that's a calamity.
		

			And then he said, Perfect His favor upon you and upon the descendants of Jacob the same way he
perfected it on those before you to always feel like you didn't fall off of a tree or come out of
nowhere is extremely important for us.
		

			To be humbled also and to be optimistic that we are the extension of we could be the product of
someone's Do I have a parent or a great great grandparent whose name we don't even know do I that
left their lips in the middle of the night in their scheduled or otherwise? Use of Alehissalaam is
the most noble, the Son of the Most Noble, the Son of the Most Noble, the Son of the Most Noble, as
the Prophet SAW, Selim said Ibrahim Ali is set up, maybe he is the product, maybe he had Ibrahim Ali
said I'm not made that dua, Allah would not have blessed his descendants in such a beautiful
consecutive way. And so, that is very humbling, that it may not be me that much at all, as much as I
		

			think I am, you know,
		

			eating on the tab of, if you will, a far more righteous person than myself that I am just one of his
Baraka, one of his blessings.
		

			And likewise, you become optimistic that many things go wrong, but there are hidden factors helping
you along your path that you may not realize just as he perfected his favor upon those before you
Ibrahim and his half and then the father ended by saying in Rebecca Alim and Hakeem, your Lord is
all knowing all wise, you know, nothing, even statistically speaking nothing
		

			ensures the transmission of faith to your children.
		

			Like the influence of the parents, even if the parents may not realize it, you know, they blossom in
the direction of the parents more often than anything else, even if it takes a while even if they
blossom late. And so the best influence or the strongest influence will be that of the parents. And
so the best influence the parents can offer their child is to instill in them unwavering trust of
Allah subhanho wa Taala you know, before you are plucked from their life or parents or before they
are plucked from your life, the children and you know, life takes its course whatever that means, in
a you know, countless ways. Make sure you carve into their personality into their depths into their
		

			soul, then rest assured they'll be fine once they know who Allah is subhanho wa taala. And, you
know, in Rebecca, you just need to know that Allah is knowing wise. That's it.
		

			While we say rest assured because you don't know exactly what else you should rely on besides Allah,
you can't rely on the fact that my life will take a certain course you can't. They say Hindsight is
2020 When you look back and say, Oh, those disasters weren't so bad.
		

			And so Allah knew subhanho wa Taala how important it was for use of La salaam to see the glory of
his dream, to see to his glory through that dream is to stay positive when the when the vicious
events erupted.
		

			And so he helped him along subhanho wa Taala it may not have been at the moment, what we would think
is the best, you know, course of action, but use of La salaam was taught Hamdulillah I think even
the use of La Salam was not taken away from his father until his father had the opportunity to
instill these values in him. That's of the great knowledge and wisdom and care of Allah for use of
Allah His Salaam.
		

			And so Allah showed him this and his father kept reinforcing in him your Lord is knowing wise.
		

			And so that stuck with him throughout the process, you know, you can think of it may be, you know,
that
		

			we might think like Hindsight is 2020. Right? We might think before the events that it would have
been better for use of Alehissalaam to know what's gonna happen to him like to just brace himself,
but that's actually not wisdom at all.
		

			Because many times we hurt ourselves more obsessing or being anxious over something harmful, right?
That may or may not happen actually, right, more than the actual harm itself far more damaging, far
more disrupting of our peace of mind. And so of Allah's wisdom, subhanho wa Taala that he showed him
the outcome of the events. And he knew before the outcome came that Allah is Lehmann Hakeem, so that
he could await the outcome. The last idea we will cover very quickly, we recited in the beginning of
the podcast for use of work what he I actually say it in, there is certainly in the story of use of
and his brothers lessons for all those who ask, what does that mean? I mean, first of all, I mean,
		

			signs, signs means lessons and proofs and indications that need to be pointed out. So even though I
showed him a whole lot he says about this guy and his staff see it, that the story of use of at a
salon, it contains signs for many things, many signs that he said in the plural, right? And so signs
that signify the necessity of being patient and being pure enroute to good outcomes, things take a
while.
		

			But in the grander scheme of things, it's just the moment and also how envy and malice even where
you least expect it is usually the case behind the details of why there's animosity between people
you may think it's because of this or it's because of that, but at the end of the day, the
underlying factor that we should keep in mind is this envy and this malice that lurks in human
beings and Aveda is also signs in the story signs of the prophethood of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wasallam it becomes beyond question after he brought to the experts scholars of the Judeo Christian
scriptures the story of the lost knowledge of use of Ali Salaam in this story, and also you know our
		

			legal staff Hello together to give having
		

			Muslims in the park Mashallah.
		

			It says in the story of Yusuf and his brothers is a lesson a lesson also for for those assigned for
those that are wondering if they can ever forgive.
		

			It's his brother's the most difficult emotional wounds are those that come from directions you least
expect. And so you know, like your own flesh and blood and so through the story of use of Ali
salaam, we are reminded that even those the most difficult wounds emotional wounds can be overcome.
And so like you're struggling to forgive and forget, remember the story of use of valet said in that
is a sign for you. Have they done to me it will use us as brothers did to him
		

			at something shift Dr. de la sala
		

			once brought to our attention and because he was the one feeling
		

			attacked by those he least expected it was very beautiful coming from him. At the end of the day. He
just takes a deep breath and he says, You know what, what have they really done some have they done
something with the brothers of us have have done to him? You know, may Allah forgive us and them a
test for them with the wrong knee or not. And they're a test for me. It's just very beautiful of
him. The last thing I'll say about I actually said alien it is science for those who ask. You gotta
be looking for those inquiring about it. You know the concept of cognitive dissonance. Cognitive
dissonance means basically a mental disconnect to deliberately let yourself disconnect. That's
		

			actually the problem with stories that you don't ask why why do I feel this way or
		

			As what is in this story of a lesson for me, you just get absorbed in the story and you just ride
this story and you don't ask.
		

			And so to push yourself to be thoughtful and to reflect, in order to benefit from the lessons that
come your way
		

			you cannot let yourself just get sucked into any story and just listen to it passively. You'll miss
out on so much. Allah wants you to be inquisitive. subhanho wa taala. You know, perhaps that's of
the wisdom why the stories of the Quran are?
		

			What's the word scattered? It's not the word I'm looking for. But you know, the story of Musa
alayhis salam is distributed all over the Quran, the story of most prophets not use of Alexandria,
but almost all the prophets distributed throughout the Quran, why? Maybe it's so that you can dive
into the story, take the lesson and come back out. But if the story just remains a story, you'll
just get sucked in and live the moment and you will not benefit as much. That's probably why or one
of the wisdoms why usually the stories of the Quran are like that, and Allah knows best. And if not
best about the Allahu Anhu. They asked him actually and he is sort of dramatic Quran right, the
		

			master interpreter of the Quran among the sahaba. And of course everyone after them. They asked him,
How did you develop all this knowledge? Like all this deep understanding of the Quran? Where did you
get it from? He mentioned two things. He said, be discerning said Wulin, wakatobi and Opole.
		

			He said, with an inquisitive tongue, I'm always asking questions were called in alcool and a
receptive heart. And so in the story of use of and his brothers are Signs for those that have a
receptive heart, those that are inquisitive, those that are inquiring, those that are receptive. May
Allah make us and you have them. Lomani Exactly. Look at everybody's pentacle, only hum diksha Allah
Allah Hi land, Mr. Furukawa two weeks, I don't wanna make them