Mohammad Elshinawy – Best of Stories – Study of Surat Yusuf 16

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			I'm playing in my head, how much I should review how many of you are following online? But we are we
are studying sort of the use of right which Allah azza wa jal called The Best of stories, asset and
fossils. And all of the stories of the Quran are the best of stories, in a sense that Allah azza wa
jal does not give us stories for entertainment, right? Allah azza wa jal tells us that which we need
to fulfill our purpose, not just as he tells us the most beneficial stories, but he shares them with
us.
		

			I hate to use the word without fluff, without extras, right, without randomness, what he chose to
tell us of the stories. And what he chose to withhold of the stories is all beneficial. So that we
focus on every single word and try to unlock some of the secrets behind it. And so also we do not
get caught up with knowledge that is not beneficial. knowledge does not benefit.
		

			And so it has been our habit throughout this series to read through the story of use of Allah, His
salah and the story of Prophet Joseph, which is a unique story in the Quran, and that it's the only
story really of the prophet that from beginning to end, at length, it's all in one place, which is
in one chapter. It is not interspersed and repeated from different angles, from different
perspectives throughout the Quran. And so we've been trying to share about three or five lessons
from each verse and we are at the point in the story, where use of Alayhis Salam, the Prophet Joseph
was forgotten about for years on end in prison, after being framed and wrongly accused by the wife
		

			of advisees, who he refused to have haram prohibited relations with. She was so tempted by him and
he refused. And so he was framed that he was thrown into prison, and people approached him in
prison, about their dreams. And he explained to them their dreams, and then one of them when he was
being released from prison, he told him mentioned me to the king, meaning so I can get absolved and
justice can be served. And the man when he got out, he was distracted by his freedom, he forgot
about everything, he was just so happy to be
		

			spared the death penalty that he forgot about use of valet setup for a very long time for years on
end.
		

			And never made mention of him to the king, until Allah opened a door for use of Allah, His Salah to
access the king himself, which is a dream that the king himself has now that none of his advisors
none of the Royal Court could give him an interpretation for and we said, this is of, you know, the,
the reminders that Allah has the Almighty, you could be the head of an empire, you could be the king
of kings, and if Allah wants to busy you, and cause you to feel haunted or obsessed with even a
dream,
		

			your heart and your mind and your life is in his hands subhanaw taala and so the king wouldn't rest
till someone brought him an interpretation of the dream. And so when they oil failed, the man
finally remembered Oh, yeah, use of in the prison, that righteous man he, he was so accurate the way
he explained our dreams. So he went back to us about a salami told him, it didn't tell him I'm
sorry, or anything. He said, Listen, we have another dream, can you help us, and from the lofty,
lofty heart that use of the prophet of God had, he didn't criticize him, he didn't blame him. He
just gave him what he needed. He just gave him the interpretation of the dream. No strings attached,
		

			he transcended above grudges, and above the resentment any of us would have, if someone left us out
to dry like that, for so long. When we were wrongly accused to begin with, he gave him the
interpretation of the dream and the man went back to the king. And that's where we are at the story.
Now he goes back to the king and gives him the interpretation from Yusuf that nobody else could have
given him.
		

			Allah azza wa jal and says here, this is the 50th verse of the Surah 50. If 50 Allah says we'll call
L medica. Toony v. And so the king says, Bring him to me. I need to meet this guy. No middlemen. No
guys didn't come. I want to meet him myself.
		

			falam magia who Russell and so on the messenger of the King meaning the king send someone to go get
use of when the messenger came to him came to Joseph Joseph Farah, little jer ILA Arabic use of
Allah His Salam now says, No, I'm not leaving prison. Go back to your Lord. Go back to the king.
First l whomever who Nisswa and ask him what happened? You meaning you go investigate yourself. What
happened in the case of the women allottee hopin idea Hoonah who got their hands the women as you
know in the story when they saw use of Ali salaam, the click of the woman who tried to seduce him,
from his great beauty and handsomeness the knives skid into their hands and they cut their hands and
		

			it became a big story.
		

			He said, Go find out what happened with those women first, go find out the true story. Go dig up the
truth regarding the women that cut up their hands in Nairobi. BKD
		

			Nadeem certainly my Lord, Allah is fully knowing of their affair fully knowing of their schemes.
Meaning I am confident that God will allow the truth to come to light. Allah knows what happened and
he will bring what happened to light.
		

			And so there's a lot to be said here. The first of all, is that Allah is the best of planners. Like
even though it was unfortunate that use of Alehissalaam was forgotten in prison for so long and
suffered, He really did suffer a great deal in prison.
		

			You know, it was said that when Yusuf Alehissalaam finally left prison a little later in the story,
and now we Rahim Allah He mentioned this, remember no way. He says he before he walked out, he wrote
on the door of the prison,
		

			had the club rule here.
		

			What he river told us the car wash em attitude.
		

			He said, This is the grave of the living. Like it is worse to be in prison than to be dead.
Sometimes this is the grave of the living. And the the test of true friends.
		

			True friends are those that don't forget you even when you're out of sight. Most people may Allah
protect us may Allah forbid when you go to prison, they may write to you, they may visit you the
first six months the first year, and then that's it, their lives move on. So he said, just to
inscribe what he felt this is the grave of the living. And the test of true friendship wishes that
she was shamatha to Lada and the greatest satisfaction of the enemies, right better than killing us
seeing us wither away in a prison cell. So he suffered a great deal. But despite this suffering, it
was for the greater good. Because I want you to imagine the opposite scenario. If he had years ago
		

			been remembered by the Butler, the guy who left the prison and been mentioned to the king,
		

			he would have been requesting to meet the king, right to present his case to the king. But to now,
the king is the one requesting him. It is very different. You know, Chef Amara Shoukry. I always
forget his example on this.
		

			You know, Chef Amara, very good. So Danny Brother, he is our community every once in a while, he
says you know what it's like, it's like when you give someone your business card or someone's
business card, and they have no need for it at the moment, they usually just lose it or throw it
out, right? Because I don't need it. As opposed to when you're going out looking for a technician or
a carpenter or a physician or otherwise. And upon your request, you get their contact information,
you value that much more. And so now the king is the one who needs use of not use of needs the king
is a bunch of better standing. But that wasn't enough use of Alayhis Salam here, what did he say
		

			when the guy came and said, the king needs you? He said I'm not going to the king.
		

			Tell the king to clear my name first. Now he's making demands.
		

			And he would not have been able to do that if the king didn't need him. Right? Why did he clear his
name first before leaving prison? Or why did he ask that his name be cleared first before leaving
prison Hamza?
		

			Yeah, it could have just you could just be Oh, that guy who like the king? did you a favor because
he owed you one or something? Right? It doesn't fix the fact that in front of everybody's eyes,
you're no good. You're a guy who tried to have a relationship with the minister's wife. You're not a
good person. Right.
		

			But and so you would have been basically a wicked man, they got a free pass by the king. But to now
I'm going to be a free man with my reputation back. And so use of Allissa is more important than his
freedom, which is a lesson on its own.
		

			And so, he said, I'll wait in prison basically a little longer. I don't care. But my My name is more
important, my reputation, my credibility, my dignity is more important. The Prophet alayhi salatu
salam, our Prophet Muhammad, even in one Hadith, he mentioned to the Sahaba How admirable you know
this reaction,
		

			this nobility of use of voice, and he said in a longer Howdy, this is the end of the Hadith he spoke
about Luke Alehissalaam. He said your Hula, hula, Bhutan, Kenya we located in Chedid. May Allah have
mercy on load, Prophet lute.
		

			He used to take refuge in a very strong corner, meaning he would he used to resign to Allah when his
whole town turned on him and no one could help him.
		

			And then he said, Well, hamdulillah who use of and may Allah have mercy on use of? He says, Lo
lebouf to fish Sydney mela beef for an attorney at dari logic to if I remained in prison for as long
as you said remain in prison, and the messenger of the king comes to me I would have obliged
		

			I would have been there right away, I would have left. Of course, this is from the great humility of
our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam but we see in his life story with his patients was like it
was matchless. But there's just something really to admire that he refused to leave until his name
was cleared
		

			through the Kings investigation, not through the Kings favoritism.
		

			There is also something that I always like to mention here, though, it can be mentioned that many
verses in the story, Allah subhanho wa Taala says, we'll call al Malik, we'll call al Malik, who
called Malik The King said the king said the king said the king said
		

			of course this is this contains proof that we are allowed to say a person is a king if they're
politically a king is fine. You know, the fact that Allah's name is Al Melaka. The true king doesn't
mean that a person cannot be a king. That's fine. But no, there is something that I find far more
interesting than that for us who who are constantly needing to remember and remind others why we
believe the Quran is the word of Allah subhanho wa taala. Anyone know what I'm about to say?
		

			Anybody? There's a secret in the word King.
		

			Just like a little fire.
		

			What country are they in right now?
		

			Egypt,
		

			all throughout the Quran. The king of Egypt is called what? frowned Pharaoh, the pharaoh of Egypt.
Okay, so
		

			the word Pharaoh shows up in the Quran.
		

			But 60 times,
		

			but it's always in the story of Musa alayhis salam Moses. It's never in the story of use of
Alehissalaam. Joseph, and this is something to stop at.
		

			There's something that we've only been able to appreciate about 200 years ago.
		

			What do we appreciate about this distinction now? Well, people always tried to claim that our
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam copied the Bible from Jewish and Christian sources. Okay. Well,
here's the difference. Here's an important difference, that in all Jewish and Christian sources, you
go to what is called the Old Testament today.
		

			The king of Egypt is always called the Pharaoh, always the Pharaoh. He's never called king. He's
called Pharaoh.
		

			Our Quran makes an important distinction. It is named as the king in the time of use of King, it
just calls in King that title. Whereas in the time of Moses, he's called the Pharaoh. About 200
years ago when
		

			when Napoleon basically Napoleon, the Napoleon, you guys know when Pauline Bonaparte he conquered
parts of the Middle East. What he gave rise to many sciences, one of them was called Egyptology
people would come from France, and they would study ancient Egypt, civilization, civilization that
has been locked away, basically in the vaults in the tombs, right you know, Tomb excavation, you
look at the artifacts and look at the history and all this. And they began to learn how to decipher
to interpret the hieroglyphics the language of the ancient Egyptian This is very recent, very
recent.
		

			And they began to learn more and more about ancient Egyptian civilization. What were some of the
things they learned this is established you go to like any non Muslim sources you go to like
Encyclopedia Britannica, you will find this you go elsewhere, you will find this, that the term
Pharaoh
		

			was first coined during the time of I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right, but that's most of the
third, third most th ut mlsc, the third. This was the
		

			18th dynasty of Egyptian kings, the 18th of the of the dynasty.
		

			And that's important why first of all, Yusuf Ali Salam was before that Musa alayhis salam was after
that. So already, you see why the king in the time of Joseph could not have been Pharaoh because
that word didn't even exist yet. That title was coined after the time of use of La Silla. That's one
reason. The second reason is they said what this federal mean federal meant elite house like the top
bloodline, the top house because they were a family, right? They passed down the rulership from
their kids to their kids to their kids. It was a kingship, it was a royal kingship, it meant Elite
Bloodline, which means that if you don't belong to their family, you can't be called Pharaoh. You're
		

			the king. You're the ruler, you are the ruler, but you're not one of the pharaohs.
		

			Am I making sense? So who then was the king? And why wasn't he called Pharaoh besides the fact that
the word didn't exist, which is already one very cool, nuanced, subtle difference.
		

			It is established historically now that the 15th 16th and 17th rulers of Egypt were not
		

			Just from the royal family, they were not from Egypt at all.
		

			The 15th 16th and 17th dynasties in Egypt were known as the Hyksos dynasties. And hexose means
foreign kings. These were people that came from Palestine, who overthrew the kings of Egypt, the
Indicative indigenous the native kings of Egypt for three generations, if you will, or three rains,
before the Egyptians took back their rule. So the term Pharaoh didn't exist. And even if it existed,
its meaning was not applicable, because these were not Egyptian rulers and the time of use of Ali
salaam, these were foreign invaders, occupiers they were occupation in Egypt. And so it made perfect
sense was perfectly accurate, that the king of Egypt in that time be considered a king, but not
		

			considered one of the Pharaohs of the dynasty of Pharaoh. Isn't that amazing? How the Quran tiptoes
around these historical facts without making these mistakes. You know, one of the
		

			the lead researchers that were a result of Napoleon coming into Egypt and elsewhere was Dr. Maurice
wu chi, and there's a long debate of Dr. Murray's book, it was a haven became Muslim or not. But the
point is, he wrote three, four books on this issue. And he said, the choice of words in the Quran is
absolutely thought provoking. Like how in the world did Muhammad choose his words so carefully? When
the language of the Egyptians had vanished, had died? didn't exist anywhere on Earth? For hundreds
of years, we'll find Mohammed was ever born on a salatu salam.
		

			That is why by the way, and I guess we're not gonna get too far in the story today. But that is why
by the way, even in the time of the Prophet Muhammad, not just Napoleon and then excavating and we
decipher and hieroglyphics and all this long mess, archaeological, you know, no, even in time of the
Prophet Muhammad, him simply being able to speak about personalities from far away cultures, for him
to know the details of Abraham and his family. Joseph, Moses, David's, this alone was just a riddle
for the Jews and Christians of his time. That is why you find in the life story of the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi salam, that many of the learning like the Jews did not argue that he
		

			wasn't a prophet. They just gave up on that the most because just he knew too much and there's they
knew for sure, there's no way in the world you could know this stuff by yourself. So the only way
they were able to escape
		

			meaning in their head escape that feeling as we have to follow you is that they said, untenable,
you'd only been fine. You're a prophet, but you apply to the Arabs only we got nothing to do with
you. This shows you the fact that they could not deny that he was a prophet.
		

			Even how we spoke about the details that existed in their books that they knew no one had access to
their books. That's why you find in the Quran,
		

			details like there being 19 angels that are the lead angels over guardians over the hellfire.
		

			Allah Subhana Allah Allah says Allah decided to usher upon the Hellfire or 19 guardian angels.
		

			What am I doing? I was having another dilemma that again, and we only appointed these Guardians of
the fire to be angels. Well, my genetic data will lead me to tell levena Cafaro and we did not
mention their number to the world except to be a trial. For those who disbelieve, they think 19 is a
light numbers, no big deal. 19 We'll handle it right. We only revealed its number to try to you
know, the hearts, the corrupt hearts of the disbelievers
		

			Fidel Castro, Leah stakin Alladhina Otto Kitab, then move on in the eye. Allah says and so that the
believers and those who received the scriptures before it may be certain may have been that this is
from Allah. Why? Because that number 19 Angels was the same number that was in their books. And so
they were blown away like how did you know that that God said Hellfire has 90 It was enough for them
just to mention these facts, these this name, this number was already a lot for them. So what about
this level of you know, like surgical accuracy. It's truly amazing the historical accuracy of the
Quran and it's just one of many examples of it, but he led him okay.
		

			So we spoke about the great dignity of use of Allah His Salam, we spoke about the nuance in this
word
		

			in this word king.
		

			And then the scholars point out that use of Alehissalaam did something also that was very noble of
him,
		

			which was what he said, go ask the women who cut their hands. If you recall, or you want to go
review our study of the previous verses. The women didn't just cut their hands and said Have a nice
day and went home. Right? Use of AI
		

			Laser lamps that was at one point in the story. A sigil Habu in a year may may ruin any la prison is
more beloved to me, Oh Allah than what they the plural, are calling me to. So they were all calling
him to haram either with them we said or pressuring him to accept the invitation of that woman. They
were all calling to it.
		

			But when it came time to speak to the king, look at how much chastity and dignity he has. He says,
go ask the women that cut their hands, not the women that, you know, he was not explicit. And he was
also not explicit in mentioning the Kings wife, the minister's wife, who was the the primary
culprit, right? The big boss of the Haram, he didn't even mention her name.
		

			And some scholars said that was because use of Allah he salams his morality, his moral code, refused
to let him shame her publicly despite everything that she did.
		

			And this is like, something worth talking about, isn't it? That use of Alayhis Salam
		

			did not accept from her that he has to obey her just because she houses him. Right? He said, This is
a beautiful lesson that some people think because they do you a favor, you have to like let go of
your principles for them. You're in my house, you have to obey me. He didn't accept that logic at
all. But at the same time, he didn't throw it all out. He remember that these are people that took
me in these are people that took good care of me. I'm I'm not going to
		

			smear them publicly. That balance is also very hard. And I talk about this as I told you a lot, that
it's not all or none. When someone pressures you or gets you involved or in something that doesn't
describe disqualify them of all their rights altogether, even in Islam. When you have a problem with
a Muslim. Yes, sometimes you retaliating in certain ways is justifiable, like not talking to them
anymore, like, you know, telling warning other people against them fine. But that still does not
mean they have no rights whatsoever.
		

			Right, you have to protect their honor. You have to return their salams you still have to prey on
them when they die, you still have to visit them when they're sick. Not every crime involves a
disqualification of rights. This is very important.
		

			So Yusuf Ali Salam felt indebted to her on some level indebted to them, on some level, protective of
them on some level. And that is an important balance that every believer has to understand. There is
no time. So I'm just going to mention the last lesson I had in mind for this one verse before the
conversation continues between him and the kink. And the women, which is the fact that the women
tried to change the subject again.
		

			When use of Alehissalaam I guess this builds up to next week use of our late Sam said ask the women
that cut their hands about what really happened.
		

			The King is going to go to them
		

			and tell them what do you have to say about the use of and the charges being made against use of
		

			meaning what what is your involvement? They said what? Hash le Lahemaa aalim Nalley human suit. They
said no stop for Allah basically, stealth for Allah. We don't use of would never do something like
this. That wasn't the question. The question is what did you do? So they're trying to say were
innocent by saying you think Yusuf would have done anything. So they're trying to use his innocence
as a as a broad brush by wish to paint the whole story as harmless misunderstanding.
		

			But use of allihies salams plan and his confidence in Allah azza wa jal will force the wife of an
ICS to confess herself and interrupt that attempt, as we will see next week in sha Allah Tada. Just
so I finish on time as promised with 11 seconds to spare Subhanak alone we have the shadow Leila
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			left. I like I said
		

			just the worst and you keep some secrets.
		

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