Mustafa Khattab – Tafsir Sura Yusuf 6 Part 1
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The speakers discuss the use of "monster" as a catch phrase used by politicians in the United States. They also talk about the mentality of killing people in the dark and the importance of not letting them lie. The conversation also touches on the use of "monster" as a catch phrase used by politicians in the United States and the importance of avoiding "monster" in political situations. The transcript describes a situation where a woman was killed by a wolf and the younger one was cut in half, leading to a judge's opinion that the woman was a mother and her child was a father. The story is not very smart and the son's father is not a good person.
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So,
now we'll continue the story of Yusuf Alaihi
Salam.
Last time we described how how he was,
thrown in the in the well,
and what his brothers
did to him, and all these appeals and
and tears and stuff, and they didn't,
sympathize for him.
So,
before we begin, inshallah, more recap,
last time we spoke about one of the
techniques
that the brothers of use of used to,
convince him to let their brother go with
him. And the technique was,
offense is the best defense.
So instead of going to him and say,
will you please
let our brother come with us? They said,
what is going on? You don't trust us
or what?
So they attacked him. So to prove to
them that he trusted to them, he trusted
them. He said, okay. You can take him
with you. So that was the technique
they used. And we gave the example that,
the sisters,
our wives, they use the style all the
time. Like, say, for example, you're going to
a party. She will attack you. She will
say, okay. You're going by yourself.
I mean, you're going to talk to women
over there. You don't trust me. You don't
want me to go with you. So to
prove that you still love her, that you're
not going to do anything wrong, that you're
not going to hang out with women in
the party,
you to prove this, you will say, okay,
come with me.
So she started with attacking you. So offense
is the best defense.
Also,
we see one of the techniques that the
brothers of use of used to convince his
father
to, let him go with them. Was to
use a lot of emphasis like indeed, certainly,
surely, truly
will take care of him. We love him.
Whatever.
So the words
truly, certainly, certainly, which are equal to wallahi.
Like when you, when you do something wrong
or you or when someone is lying, this
is what they do. They say, will lie,
will lie, will lie all the time.
So if someone does something wrong, this is
one of the techniques they use
to, to free themselves from the guilt
or to distract the tension from them themselves.
So they will use a lot of swearing.
Will lie will lie will lie to prove
that they didn't do it. Okay,
so that was one of the techniques.
Of course, we know in Islam that the
the only thing that you can use to
swear is to say by Allah,
If you say
by the life of my father
or by this or by that, anything,
that you use except Allah as an oath,
it doesn't count.
And it's a sin because the prophet says
that you only swear by Allah.
You either swear by Allah or you don't
swear at all.
So what if you swear at something?
Then,
like, you broke your oath. So he said,
for example, wallahi,
tomorrow I'm going to give you the book.
Right? So you made an oath, then you
broke your oath
intentionally.
Okay?
And you have the intention to break your
oath. Right?
So in this case, kafaratul
Yamil.
Okay. So what if you say, for example,
tomorrow inshallah, I'm going to the school,
and you don't go.
And the other option is to say, wallahi,
I will go to school and you don't
go. Okay. So there's a difference between the
2. The first one is what we call.
Is when you say something
and you don't swear.
Right? Or if you say, for example,
I went to school this morning. And you
think you went, actually, or I put the
money in the box or in the bag.
Well, you're not lying because this is what
you thought. Sometimes,
we have these senior moments even if you're
20 years old because your mind is busy.
Right?
You have work, you have family, you have
kids, you have a thousand things going on
in your mind. So you have, like, a
a blender in your head.
So you say you did something and you
actually didn't do it. This is what we
call in Arabic.
The Surah till Mayeda Allah
speaks about both.
But when you say I will do something
or you know for sure that you didn't
do something and you say, well, I did
it. And you know you know for sure
you are lying. This is called a lie.
So in this case,
you have to, you have to make, like,
a far to I mean, in this case.
Allah says
Allah does not hold you accountable
for for the, unintentional,
oath or the things that you you say
without thinking. Right? But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will hold you accountable for intentional
oath that you make an oath and you
break it intentionally,
or you say something you swear by Allah
and the person is lying. So in this
case, you have to, make a far to
yameen, and the kafar is not to fast
for 3 days. Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
puts them in order in in Surah Al
Maida. It says
It
says,
If you break an oath intentionally,
then there are some certain things you can
do to make up for for this, false
oath. Number 1,
you can make up for this by feeding
10 poor people,
right? 10 poor people
or clothing them
like you buy them, jelly or I thought
you don't buy them gloves.
This is not called kiss. What in Arabic
kiss? What is when you get them close
like a garment shirt
pants,
something, a rope.
This is called Kiswah in Arabic, but gloves
or socks, this is not called Kiswah in
Arabic. Right? You're just playing games.
Or freeing a slave, which is not an
option anymore.
And if Allah says, if you're not able
to do any one of these, then in
this case, you can fast for 3 days.
Right? But you start with the feeding first,
according to this order.
In some places like Egypt
and Somalia,
we use the word Wallahi
just like you use the word,
a
in in Canadian English, right? You're coming tomorrow.
A
we use it in that sense in Araby
when we say, well, light is not even
an emphasis is not even an oath. We
just say
it in our like a catchphrase,
right? We don't mean any oath. We don't
mean anything, right?
Just like the brothers
in, Egypt,
they swear by divorce all the time.
If I'm not coming tomorrow, my wife is
divorced. They say it all the time. Right?
Of course, this does not count as divorce
because we know the culture in the culture,
we use it a 1000 times every day.
So it doesn't count as divorce. Right? If
you say, well,
just as a catchphrase and you don't mean,
like an oath, it doesn't count as an
oath
because
the the cultural,
practice that we do in our country. So
people's life will be very difficult if you
hold them accountable every time they say, will
lie or divorce.
I remember one of the brothers was talking
to the imam,
and he would say, I came.
I
prayed.
He's swearing by divorce like a 1000 times.
So the imam said, why do you say
I swear by divorce all the time? He
said,
And that's why I swear by divorce. I
never said it. Right?
So he's saying without even thinking about what
he's saying. So we don't * hold that
person accountable because
it's only a catch phrase. They don't mean
it. Right?
So inshallah, we'll talk tonight about I had
from,
Surat Yusuf. I had 16 to 20,
and there are so many, beautiful a cam
that we can take from these I had
inshallah.
First, we need someone to read the I
had in Arbi.
Maybe we'll get,
loud.
What
time?
What
time? What time? What time? What time? What
time?
Now the English.
Need one sister?
Don't be shy. It's okay.
Yeah. You did it last time. We'll get
someone else tonight.
Hey, sister.
K.
You decide. Loud.
When you return to the father in the
evening evening, they cried, oh, our father, you
are increasing and left Joseph with our belonging,
and awoke to devour him, but you will
not believe us no matter how truthful we
are. And they brought his
shirt, stained with false blood. He responded, no.
Your soul must have
And then and there came some travelers, and
they sent their water boy who went down
his bucket into the well. He cried out,
oh, what a great time. Here's a boy.
And they took him secretly
So,
I had 16 and 17,
then they returned to their father in the
evening, weeping
to the rest of the ayah. Why did
they go in the evening? Because
from what we understand, they left in the
morning.
They would go they take their animals to
the field or they go away and they
come in the evening.
We know that,
getting rid of Yusuf is the first thing
they did in the morning. Why did they
come in the evening?
It's very interesting.
Right?
Exactly. Because
do you know when you talk to someone
and they did something wrong?
And this is something you will notice about
our politicians back home. They always wear sunglasses.
So you don't see their eyes.
This is very true. This is the fact.
Right? Most of them, they wear sunglasses. Even
if they are inside a building, they are
making, like, breeze, release or they are making
an announcement or something. They always talk and
they have their sunglasses on. So you get
you don't look at their eyes or you
don't look them in the eye. So this
is why they came late in the evening
and they call their father outside the tent
or the house
and they broke the news to him so
he doesn't see their eyes. So this is
why they came,
in the evening and they were weeping.
We,
we find something similar
to this in another sort of sort of
name
when they said,
So these 9 people, 9 thugs
from the town of Salih alaihis salam, they
wanted to kill him and his family by
night, assassinate him.
So this is what they did. They said,
we'll go to him by night.
We'll kill Salih and his family,
because he was threatening them that the punishment
was coming. So okay. We're gonna have him
for lunch before he has us for dinner.
This is the
this is the what we say in Arabic.
So that was the plan. We'll kill him
in the dark.
Then in the morning,
when his, well, his guardian or his,
closest heir will break the news, we'll tell
him,
well,
we'll swear.
We didn't see
his family die.
Why? Because they did it in the dark.
And we will be truthful because we killed
we killed them in the dark. So we
didn't see them as they were dying.
So we will not be lying. So that
was the, that was the mentality.
Right?
That was the mindset that, yes, we killed
them, but we didn't see their killing. They
didn't say
because it happened in the dark, we didn't
see. So they were lying. They were playing
with words
to, you know, to free themselves from the
guilt.
So they came in the evening to their
father
crying, and this is what they call the
crocodile tears.
Back home,
I'm not sure if it happens here or
not.
Usually,
your wife, if they live together, even if
they live, like, a 1000 miles away, they
will always pick on each other. Right? Your
wife and your mom will pick on each
other.
Because this is the mindset.
Right? Your mom will say, well, I brought
up my kid my whole life. I sacrificed
my life to make him happy. And this
girl, she comes and she takes him like
this.
Also, your wife would say, well, my husband
is not a baby anymore. Why is she
doing this to him? Why is she, you
know, asking him all the time, what did
he do, where he went, all that stuff.
You know, he's he's a mature man now.
She doesn't have to, to to be ordering
him around all the time like this. And
she doesn't have to take his money all
the time like this. Right? Because he he
he he has a family now. Why is
she taking his money? So they keep picking
on each other.
Most of the time,
whoever calls you at work first and cries
over the phone,
this must be the victim.
We know this mentality from back home.
The guy hit me first
in the face
and he went ahead and he complained before
me crying
because they know when you cry, when you
make a scene,
you the person will be supportive of you.
Right? So whoever talks first, whoever complains first,
this person would be the winner.
Probably told you the story before about
the guy and his
wife and his mother-in-law. They were always fighting
because,
back home where, you know, in the village
where I grew up,
when someone gets married, they didn't move out.
His wife moved in. Right? So they just
take a room inside the house. So now
you have, like, 4 or 5 families living
in the same in the same house. Everyone
has their own room.
So what happens? There was this, building,
like, 15 floors.
So this guy and his mother and his
wife, they were living together in the same
house, like, on 14th
floor.
Like the condominiums in, in Toronto.
So
one day the wife
was screaming. She went to the balcony and
she was screaming and she was crying and
she was in tears devastated.
So the neighbors knew what was going on
because they heard them fight every day.
So one of the neighbors said, Okay,
why are you crying?
She said, Because my my,
my mother-in-law,
she is threatening to jump out of the
window and kill herself.
So her neighbor said, But you know, why
are crying? Because this is this should be
good news for you because once she is
gone, you will be happy. She said, I'm
crying because she she has been trying for
half an hour to open the window and
the window is not opening.
That's why I'm crying.
Right? My bad luck.
So they came in the evening
crying.
And,
and, of course, as I said,
tears have nothing to do with facts.
Right? The way people look, you don't judge
people by the way they look or the
their tears and stuff.
One of the one time,
there was a judge by the name of
Shulai.
Shulai was
a big judge. He's he's very famous.
So one time a woman came to him.
She was at fault. She did something wrong.
Right? She stole something. She did something, whatever,
and she started to cry.
So someone was there, and he said, look
at her tears, man. She is cry she
is she is innocent. You see her tears?
So he said, keep your mouth shut.
If we, judge things based on the tears,
then look at the story of the brothers
of Yusuf. They came at night in tears
and crying, but they were guilty. Right? Tears
have nothing to do with it.
There's also the story,
the woman were actually 2 women. There were
shippers that would take their animals and go
outside
and graze and stuff.
And the 2 ladies,
each of them had a baby. Right? And
they were very young, like a few months
old. Each one of them.
So one of the 2 babies was eaten
by a wolf, just like in this story.
So the one who lost her baby, the
older one,
she took the surviving baby and she said,
Okay, this is my son.
Back then, they didn't have the, DNA test,
so they couldn't tell who, whatever.
Right? So what they did, they went to
the wood, Alay Salam, to make a judgment.
Right?
So
what happened was that would Alay Salam judged
in favor of the older one. Why? Because
she was crying.
She was making a scene. She was devastated.
She was crying all the time. The other
one was patient and everything. Right?
So so they man are a salam. He
heard the judgment. He said, you know, hold
on. Hold on.
I have a better judgment.
Right? There's another similar story. If you saw
that till the NBA
when
the,
the sheep or the goats of 1 man,
they came at night and they broke loose
and they ate the, you know, the trees
of someone and the hood, arias salam ruled
in favor of the one, the farmer. He
said, you take over the goats and the
sheep and all this stuff.
But, so I man Ali Salam, his son
made another judgment. He said, no, we take
the goats and the sheep. We give them
to the farmer. He will take care of
them and we will,
take the farm and give it to the
shepherd. He will fix it. And after 1
year, everyone would take back whatever,
that belonged to them. So the farmer would
take his farm and the shepherd will take
his animals.
So in this case, Soleiman, alayhis salam said,
well, it's very easy,
to figure out who is the mother.
He said, what we are gonna do and
this, hadith is basically in, Bukhari and Muslims,
so it's an authentic hadith. So Soleiman, alayhis
salam, said,
one of them lost her baby,
and we don't know which one of them
lost her baby.
Both of them claim that this
baby, surviving baby, belongs to both of them,
and no one is claiming that one that
was evared by the wolf. So what we
will do,
we will cut the baby in half and
each one of them will take half the
baby.
So the younger one, the one who was
not crying, she said, you know what?
He is her son.
Please take him, but don't kill him.
The other one said,
let's cut him in half. I have no
problem.
So he said, Soleim Alaihi Salam said, the
baby belongs to the younger one. The one
who didn't want to cut the baby in
half because this is her baby. This is
what a mother would do for her baby
right to keep him,
safe.
So, as I said, they came and they
made a scene
just Thio,
to escape the punishment.
And they told the father.
Well, we went outside
racing and
and this is what happened. The wolf came
and
and 8 use of
and they said something interesting at the end.
You
will not believe us
even if we're not lying,
which means that the norm was that they
lied.
Okay,
so they're saying, basically,
if you didn't know about the history,
even if you didn't warn us
that the wolf was going to eat him
because now we're guilty, right? Because you you
you know, you gave us heads up, heads
up, and we didn't listen to you. But
now, even with all this in in our
minds, we know that you will not believe
us because now we should be guilty in
your eyes even if we're telling you the
truth. But this is what actually happened.
But this story
they were telling,
yeah, cool. But I said, I'm didn't add
up.
Something was wrong with this story they told.
And the only amount of tears here, the
reason why the story didn't add up.
Number 1,
because your coup, are they salam knew
by what he that his son use of
array salam will live
and he will become a prophet
and him and his wife and his children
will make Saturday to him. So if you're
telling me now that my son died,
this doesn't make any sense because Allah subhanahu
ta'ala told me something else.
Woman else that come in a lie Haditha
who is
more truthful in speech than Allah. So he
has the proof that his son survived. His
son was not killed.
Number 1, by looking at the, facts and
the, you know, the the the pieces that
his son gave him, he put the pieces
together and they didn't make any sense. The
story didn't add up.
So
look at this example before we go into
the points they gave their father.
The example was
you have a friend or a colleague, someone
who goes to school with you and you
don't trust that person.
So you were planning to travel somewhere. You
were going to Alberta for a week
and you keep some gold in your in
your house, in apartment. You're living there yourself.
Right?
Or maybe you're you have your family with
you. You're traveling with your family. The house
will be empty. So this guy you don't
trust came to you and
said, I want to stay in your apartment
for a week until you come back.
Well, you say, but
I have some valuables in the house. Right?
And,
yeah, I have some valuables. I need to
to have some privacy. He would say, you
know what? Wallahi Wallahi Wallahi. I'm gonna keep
your, privacy. I will not touch anything in
the house.
So you will tell him, well, but
I'm afraid
that
you will take the gold.
He said, don't worry. Don't worry.
He will say, you know what?
Actually,
I trust you. But what happens is I'm
afraid that someone will break in. You will
leave the, the window open. Someone will come
from outside
and this person will take the gold.
So he said, don't worry. Don't worry. So
use the apartment for a whole week.
Then you take the gold.
And what do you do? Basically, you break
the glass the window just like he told
you. This is exactly what happened in the
story, right? So you break the glass
and when your friend comes,
you cry,
Right? And you tell him, well, someone came
in, they broke the glass and they took
the gold.
Well, this story doesn't add up. Why? Because
you told him exactly what he had told
you, that someone will come and steal the
gold. Right? And number 2,
the glass
was outside
in the street. If someone breaks the glass
from outside, then the glass will be inside.
You see? So this is not very smart.
When you broke the glass,
you kicked it out, you know, like this
and the glass fill in the backyard or
next to the next to the house. So
something is not right.
So this is what happens in the story.
There was this,
story that happened I have to say this
story before I go to the details
they gave to the father.
Like someone
this guy was in the village and the
village was full of thieves. Right? A lot
of thieves chores in the in the village.
So what happens?
This guy had a fever. It was winter
time. You got a, you know, cold
fever, so he was very sick.
So
he always kept his house closed. There's no
fresh air coming inside the house. So he
went to the doctor. He gave him medicine
and and whatnot. So he took the medicine
after 2, 3 days. Nothing happened.
So the doctor said,
did you take the medicine? He said yes.
So he said, but what happened? He said,
I still have the fever. Nothing happened.
So the doctor said, do you get fresh
air in your house? He said no, because
I keep all the doors, all the windows
closed. It's cold outside.
He said,
you know,
open a window a little bit so you
will get some fresh air and inshallah, this
will help you.
So the guy said, but we have a
lot of thieves in my neighborhood. This is
a very dangerous area. He said, don't worry.
Just open the window at night. Some fresh
air will come in. You will wake up
in the morning. You'll be okay. Right?
So 2, 3 days later, he went to
the doctor and he said,
Alhamdulillah,
is your,
fever
gone. Said Alhamdulillah, my fever is gone.
My laptop is gone.
My iPad is gone. Everything is gone. Alhamdulillah.
So
now you look at the evidence or the
things they told their father. Number 1, he
didn't ask them to take their brother with
them.
They asked him to take him. Right?
It could have been
much easier if you told them, okay, you
can take your brother with you. And this
happened accidentally.
No. They told him we need to take
him with us. Right? And their father was
against
it. Number 2,
they shouldn't have done it the first time
they took him. Right?
So he told them, you're not, you know,
I'm afraid the wolf will eat
him. You know,
next day, the next day, exact next day,
right?
Less than 24 hours, they came to him.
The wolf ate him. They should have taken
him the first time. Right? Nothing happened. He
had fun because they told him he will
come with us. He will have fun. He
will enjoy himself and jump and run, you
know? But the same day, the same thing
happened. They should have let him come with
them or go with him like 2, 3
times in a row. Then the 4th or
the 5th time.
You know what happened? You see the last
2 or 3 days. The last week he
has been having fun. And you see, now
it's an accident. But it was the 1st
day they took him. So he was very
suspicious.
Number 23.
The reason they took him was they told
his father, we're going to take it because
you are keeping him in the house all
the time. We're going to take him
to play with us.
Right? But now they told their father in,
the have 9 of staipu.
We lift him with our stuff and we
went to play. He was not playing.
What is it? So the only reason they
took him was to play.
And the only thing they didn't let him
do was to play.
Right?
So this didn't make any sense.
So they took him to play, but they
didn't let him play. Right?
So it didn't make any sense to other
father.
Also,