Mustafa Khattab – Tafsir Sura Yusuf 8 part 1
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The speakers discuss the historical facts and historical figures of Islam, including the name of the ruler of Egypt and the use of "naughty words" to describe actions. They also touch on legal cases and the use of Arabic words in English, emphasizing the importance of fulfilling emotional and physical rights and avoiding mistakes. The speakers stress the need for more people to work on their goals and accomplishments to achieve their dreams and emphasize the importance of avoiding mistakes and fulfilling personal desires.
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So,
inshallah, tonight we'll continue our discussion about Surah
Yusuf and what we can learn
from the, experience of Yusuf alaihis salam
as a child,
as a youth,
then as an adult.
So, inshallah, tonight we'll try to cover ayaat
from 25 to 29,
give or take.
Before we begin, inshallah, we're gonna touch on
a couple of things we mentioned last time.
We're talking about
the difference between engagement. I got the question
about the difference between engagement and marriage. Like,
say, for example, you're engaged to someone. Can
you,
can you sit together
in private? Can you chat on Facebook and
all that stuff?
So we said that,
engagement
does not have any,
okay. Let me put it this way.
Engagement does not mean anything. It is not
an obligation.
Engagement in Islam basically
means that,
there is a promise
to consider marriage in the future.
And we give the example if someone is
engaged to a lady,
if he dies, she doesn't inherit him.
If she died or if he died, she
doesn't have to observe because there's no relationship
whatsoever. Right?
With that being said, there's no relationship.
Once they break up and she tells him,
I don't want to marry you or he
tells her, I don't want to marry you.
She can't get engaged to someone else. You
can get engaged to someone else. Right?
They cannot sit in private and talk.
Some people do.
In some cultures, I'm not gonna mention names.
As soon as they read in Fatiha. Right?
And basically, Al Fatiha has nothing to do
with engagement. Right?
But
if someone recites Fatiha at the beginning of
the engagement
to bless the relationship, there's nothing wrong. But
reading Fatiha is not part of engagement or
marriage for that matter. But it is something
it's a cultural thing which is acceptable
because the starting Quran for Barak is acceptable
at all times. Right? But it is not
part of the engagement.
So therefore, when people are engaged, this does
not mean that they can sit in private.
They can go whatever
by themselves. They have to have someone sitting
with them or someone
involved with them at least,
6 or 7 or above years old. Someone
who knows what is going on. Right?
Marriage is a different story. As soon as
they
they do the I do's
right. I agree to marry you. I do.
I do. She becomes your wife.
In this case, she is your wife. Right?
So in this case, as we said last
time, if a man and a woman,
they signed the marriage contract
or before that,
if they agree to the marriage, I accept
to marry you, I accept and the family
is there, the witnesses, everything.
They become a husband and wife, which means
if he dies 1 minute after signing the
contract or after the I do, she will
inherit him
even before the consummation of the marriage.
And if he
dies, she will have to observe
for 4 months and 10 days, even after
1 minute after signing the contract or after
the I do's, even before the consummation of
the marriage. And this is unanimous among the.
So as soon as the marriage contract is
signed, she becomes technically the wife whether the
marriage is consummated or not.
We touched a little bit on the Shaitan
tricks because we spoke about the wife of
Al Aziz
and we said that she was busting all
the moves.
When Allah subhanahu ta'ala says, you know, what
I would do
in the Arabic language does not mean a
one time thing. She was,
she was doing it all the time.
Maybe she started by wearing light clothes. The
manner of speaking, her attitude changed
because he was her slave,
he was in her house and she was
related to the king.
She was from the family of the king
and we said that the king of Egypt
at the time
and Al Aziz himself, they were not Egyptians.
And this is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
doesn't call the ruler of Egypt. He doesn't
call him the pharaoh. He calls him the
king.
And when he speaks about the husband of
the lady, he says the man who bought
him from Egypt, he didn't call him the
Egyptian because technically he was not an Egyptian.
So the rulers of Egypt at the time,
as we said last time, they were not
Egyptians. They were invaders
some from somewhere in Asia. So they ruled
Egypt for 100 of years,
and they were called Al Hixus.
Right? They came, they fought the Egyptians,
and they pushed them to the south, of
Egypt, which is called upper Egypt, nowadays. So
they are not called Egyptians in the Quran.
If you read the same story in the
bible,
the king,
the ruler of Egypt is called pharaoh.
Right?
Whereas if you read in the Quran, in
the story of Musa, the ruler is called
pharaoh.
In the story of Yusuf, the ruler is
called king.
Historically,
the Quran is accurate.
Why? Because it says in we spoke about
the,
some of the encyclopedias
that we mentioned before. They say that the
rulers of Egypt were Hixxes. They were not
Egyptian. They were called kings, not pharaohs. And
this is why the Quran is very accurate
when it comes to,
to historical facts.
This is why, as we said last time,
Yusuf Alaihi Salam was allowed
to,
reach or to, to be appointed in such
an honorable place because he was not an
Egyptian.
The rulers of Egypt were not Egyptian.
So they were not against non Egyptians
being hired in high places.
Why? Because they think that if someone is
a foreigner like themselves,
he would be loyal to them. Whereas if
it was an Egyptian, he will not be
loyal to them because they are the invaders.
And this is why use of alaihi salam
was promoted and they were not against him,
except when it comes to, the situation with
the women as we'll talk about,
Shaitan
does not trick you overnight.
And this is the point we touched on
last time, but we didn't get the chance
to cover.
Shaitan,
the biggest weapon that Shaitan has is time.
And he will not come to you overnight
and say, okay, let's go go and commit
Zena with that lady. No, he will come
to you and say, okay, why didn't you
smile to the lady? You are not a
stone, right?
Then the next day he will come and
say, okay, why didn't you talk to her?
Why didn't you go out to the tim
hortons?
Why didn't you go to the movies? Eventually,
things will happen. Right? So this is how
Shaitan works.
We spoke about this one time in a
and we said that whenever Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala speaks about Zina or adultery, fornication in
the Quran, he doesn't say don't fornicate.
Don't commit adultery. Allah doesn't say this.
How he says it in the Quran? He
says,
he he says don't come close
to Zena. Why? Because he knows once you
get close, you will fall into it.
When he talks about,
abusing the wealth
of the orphans, he doesn't say
he says,
doesn't say don't consume the, the wealth of
the orphans. He says, don't get close
to the wealth of the orphan.
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about
shameful deeds and evil things,
he doesn't say, let the.
He says, let the trouble.
He says, don't come close
to committing evil things. Why? Because he knows
once you're close, you will fall into the
sin. We are human beings.
We are weak and we have desires and
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows this. So Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tries to close the door
from the beginning.
You probably know the story of,
Abid Bani Israel. Someone was from the Benu
Israel who was a very righteous man
and
he had some neighbors and they wanted to
travel somewhere for a few months and they
couldn't take their sister with him. So
they said, okay, the best one to trust
with our sister
is our neighbor who is a monk Rahim.
You know,
he dedicated his whole life to a bada.
He's not interested in dunya. So we'll keep
our sister with him. She's gonna stay in
a room. He stays in the other room,
but hamdulillah.
So she went to him and they spoke
with him. They convinced him. Okay, you can
keep our sister with you. We trust you.
And this is mentioned in an authentic hadith.
So
is it okay?
Then they left.
Shaitan came to him and started to whisper
to him. So Shaitan told him,
you see this girl, man, she is miss
Kina. Her family is gone. There's no Facebook,
man. She's not talking to anyone. No iPhones.
Nothing. You see? And she's staying all by
herself. Nobody's talking to her. She's gonna go
crazy.
You see?
So what can I do?
When you give her food, knock on the
door and say, hey, how are you doing?
Right? That's it. Nothing else.
Tell us.
This is what he did.
The next day,
Shaytan came to him and said, you just
knocked on the door. He said, how are
you doing? Nothing else. You are not putting
food for a dog. Right? You you gotta
say something. So he knocked on the door.
He gave her the food. He said, how
are you doing?
The next day, Shaytan came and said, you
said, how are you doing?
You know,
but you didn't see how beautiful she was.
Right?
You didn't talk to her. You you just
said, how are you doing? And you didn't
say anything else.
So what can I do? Just ask her,
do you need anything? Can I help you?
Right? So this is what he did the
next day.
They should talk and came to him and
said, did you see how beautiful the lady
is? Are you blind?
She is so beautiful. She she is gorgeous,
man.
The next day he said, okay, why didn't
you take her out? She's not a prisoner,
man. She's staying in the room the whole
day and it has been a week now.
You gotta take her out sometime. Take her
to Tim Hortons, man, to the movie, buy
her double double. You see what I'm talking
about? Something like this.
Take her to the movies.
Then eventually, she got pregnant.
One thing led to another according to the
story, she got pregnant, then she thought came
to me and said, big problem, man.
Right? So he said, what can I do?
He said, her brothers maybe will come in
a month or 2 when they find out
what you did to her sister, your their
sister, they're gonna kill you. There's no question
about it.
They would say we told you to take
care of our sister.
You took care of her, but in the
wrong way.
So what can I do? He said, okay,
you have to call her. You have
to, to get rid of the,
evidence of your crime. So he killed her
and the baby and he buried her outside.
Then her brothers came and he told him,
you know, she got sick. I couldn't do
anything.
Right?
Then Shaitan went to his brothers and said,
you know, you see what this holy man
did to your sister? He raped her and
she got pregnant and he killed her and
all.
The shaitan ran back to him. Now they
are coming to you right? They are gonna
come to kill you. Right? So he said,
what can I do? So shaitan said, if
you make one said that to me,
make sujood for me, then I will save
you.
Right? So he made such a for him.
Then Shaifan disappears nowhere to be found. They
came and they killed the guy.
Okay, these are his crimes.
He committed Zena.
He killed the lady and the baby,
and he made said that to Shaitan and
he died calf. Right? So his life his
life was ruined because of the shape time.
One thing led to another.
I always like to give the story
of
Adam Alai Salaam.
This point is very important. This is why
I'm
focusing on this point because this will change
a lot of things in your life.
When Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala created Adam and put
him in Jannah and he told him, don't
get close to this tree. He
didn't say,
don't eat from the tree. No. He said,
don't get close to the tree. The same
style used over and over in the Quran.
So Allah says don't get close to the
tree.
So maybe the 1st day he just walked
by, he kept a distance and he was
afraid of the tree.
The next day maybe he walked and he
came close. Nothing to happen. The 3rd day
he looked at the fruit. Nothing happened. The
4th day he came close. Nothing happened.
He touched the fruit. Nothing happened. After a
week he ate from the tree. Believe me,
he didn't eat from day 1
because he was getting closer and closer all
the time. And Shaitan was convincing him. Shaitan
said,
If you want to stay in Jannah forever,
you have to eat from this tree. This
is the tree of eternity.
And now let me say, Shaitan was an
idiot
because
if eating from the tree will make someone
eternal.
Right? Then Shaitan would should have eaten from
it, but he didn't eat. Right? Because he
he he knew
he was bluffing. What he was saying is
just ballooning. Right? He just just giving him
excuses.
So he came close to the tree and
he ate and this is why he was
taken out.
So the Ulamas say,
because Adam alaihis salaam put his trust in
the tree.
He wanted to stay in Jannah forever. Right?
But he wanted to stay in Jannah and
he put his trust in the tree. This
is why he was taken out immediately
because he didn't put his trust in Allah.
They say the opposite happened in the story
of Yusuf.
Maybe we'll touch on this when we come
across the higher. They say when Yusuf was
in jail,
he was still young.
They say
to the 2 people who had the dream,
he said to one of them, the one
who was going to be saved,
and as I'm in who is currently under
up. He said, mention me before the king
so he would take me out.
Right? So they say he put his trust
in the king,
not in the king of kings.
And this is why he stayed in jail
for build a Sennin. He stayed in jail
for several years.
So Adam wanted to stay in Jannah
then because he put his trust in the
tree, he was taken out immediately.
Use of alleys and I wanted to go
out immediately.
He wanted to be released immediately, but he
put his trust in the king. So he
stayed there for a long time.
The exact opposite. Right?
So the point as if no, Kaye and
Allah says, put your trust in Allah. Right?
So this is basically what Shaitan does.
Inshallah, we're going to cover
some of the ayaat.
We want someone to read the Arabic for
us.
Beautiful, beautiful voice.
Arabic.
Anyone?
So from 23, inshallah, to 25.
Now we want someone to read the Arabic
from 23 to 25.
Malik.
English?
Yeah. The English.
And the lady whose house he lived tried
to seduce him. She locked the doors firmly
and said, come to me, he replied. God
is my refuge. It is not right to
betray my master who has taken good care
of me. Indeed, the wrongdoers never succeed. She
advanced towards him, and he would have done
so had he not seen a sign from
his lord.
Thus, we kept evil and indecency away from
him for he was truly one of our
chosen servants.
They raised for the door. She tore his
shirt from the back only to find her
husband at the door. She cried. What is
the penalty for someone who tried to violate
your wife except for imprisonment or a painful
punishment?
So the first aya,
and the lady in whose house she lived
or he lived tried to seduce him.
We said that the word used in the
Arabic
means that she was doing it over a
long period of time. She didn't do it
once. She was approaching him gradually.
She locked the doors firmly.
Sometimes it's
it's very hard to translate
Arabic words into English in one word.
You have to say she locked the doors
firmly.
In Arabic, it's only 2 words. In English,
it's 4.
You have to put an an adverb
to show that this was done over a
long period of time.
So what she did basically, as we said
last time,
she was desperate. She locked all the doors
and she approached him in this manner.
And
as we said last time, it must have
been very difficult for Yusuf, alaihis salaam. You
know the hadith of Rasulullah, alaihis salaam, in
Bukharian Muslim where he speaks about the 7
people who will be in the in the
shade of Allah
when he talks about a youth,
someone your age who is seduced by a
woman, a beautiful woman. And he says, I'm
afraid of Allah. He says the situation of
use of must have been much, much more
difficult than this one. Why? Because he was
in her house.
He was like a slave to her. She
had authority over him. She warned him. If
you don't do it, I'm gonna put you
in jail. Her husband,
she was approaching him. He was not approaching
her. So this would have would have made
it very easy for him, right? No one
would have doubted because he's in the house
all the time. Right? And the ladies, the
other ladies, her friends were pushing him to
do it. Right? So imagine the claim gave
14 different reasons
why it would have been,
very difficult for someone
other than use of harissa. But he still
refused and said, my Adela, he refused to
do it.
Why did the lady
of Aziz do it?
Probably two reasons. One of them because the
beauty of use of Arista,
he was irresistible.
The beauty You can tell this from the
story of the lady and the story of
the other ladies who came for the banquet,
and they cut off their their hands and
their fingers. We'll touch on this next time
inshallah.
The prophet,
when the prophet
was
was taken to the heavens before Israel.
And he said, when I came to the
3rd heaven,
Jibril Alaihi Salam tried to open the gates.
So someone said, who is it?
So it was, this is Jibril.
So the one inside said, who is with
you?
So Jibril Alaihi Salam said, this is Mohammed
with me.
So the speaker from inside said, was he
sent as a prophet already? So Jibril said,
yes. So Jibril Alaihi Salam has mentioned inside
Muslim. He said,
the door was open and the prophet
said, I saw Yusuf Alaihi Salam.
He was given half of the beauty
in the world, which means he was so
he was so beautiful.
So this is one reason.
Another reason,
maybe Al Aziz because he was in a
high position. He was busy all the time
running the country, taking care of the supplies
and all that stuff. He didn't have time
for his wife. And this is a problem
that a lot of brothers do, right? They
get busy with work. I know as soon
as people get mad, they are desperate. Be
with someone, brothers and sisters. But after several
months from the marriage or when she gives
birth, and so on and so forth, people
start to lose interest. Right? At some point,
the brother
will realize,
well, especially in the middle age crisis,
when they hit this point,
they will look at their life.
Well, I haven't done. I haven't left a
legacy behind me. I need to work harder.
I want to make some achievements in life,
right? I want to prove that I ever
existed. So they start to work harder to
make more money to make some achievements. And
this will be at the expense of the
wife.
A lot of us, those of us who
go to work, they spend a lot of
time outside
and when they come back, they don't give
quality time to the wife, you know?
Even simple things like a small gift of
flower. I love you. All these things are
lost. Now. People don't use them anymore.
So some lives, they feel neglected.
I give this complaint
complaint sometimes from some of the sisters, you
know, my husband will only approach me if
he wants something from me.
Right? But other than this, I'm neglected.
I'm alienated. He doesn't talk to me. He
doesn't care about me. Just like I'm another
piece of furniture in the house. Right?
So
the the why is they feel this,
you know, the
the the the cool coldness
of the relationship. Right? So they feel neglected.
Maybe this is what happened with the lady
here. Right?
So the husband is encouraging Islam to take
care of his wife because the prophet says,
you have rights on your wives, but they
also have rights on you.
And every time Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks
about the believers in the Quran, Allah makes
sure that he uses males and females.
She has rights on you. You have rights
on her. Right? So make sure that you
fulfill
the rights of the wife, the emotional rights.
I will give you an example. I remember
one time
a brother,
came to me. I was in the US
at the time.
So the reason I'm giving you this example
is because some of the brothers, they are
very selfish.
They want to just fulfill their desires and
they don't care about the emotional needs or
the physical needs of the wife. So the
brother came to me and he said,
I left my
wife back
home. She went to the US and he,
you know, because he wasn't a visa, he
applied for green card and in the US
it takes a long time to get a
green card. They made it very difficult
after September 11th.
So by the time you get the green
card in the US in that during that
time, you can get your citizenship in Canada.
Right?
So he said, I've been here for 3,
4 years now and I haven't seen my
wife in 3, 4 years
and I need I feel like I'm going
to fall into Zena. I have to marry
someone or I will go to jail, I'll
be in the paper,
I'll be lost.
A man
busted for harassment
or assault, whatever.
So I said, well, fine. He said, Allah
gives me the right to marry for. I
said, fine.
Allah subhanahu ta'ala gives you the right to
fulfill your desires.
If you marry a wife, I'm not gonna
marry you in the masjid. Right? Because this
is against our policy. You can do it
somewhere
else. But this is not the issue here.
Right? The if you want to get married,
the the presence of an imam is not
a requirement. It's not one of the requirements
of marriage.
You don't have to get married in the
masjid. It is not one of the requirements.
The requirements are known.
Offer acceptance
to witnesses. Well, he some say the mother
has has to be stated. These are the
requirements for the marriage. The presence of the
Imam, the Masjid are not requirements in in
the marriage. But I said,
yes, you have not been with your wife
for 3, 4 years.
Now you have a release. You can fix
your problem. But what about your wife?
She's staying there for 3 years. She has
not been with you. You can fix your
problem, but you don't care about her. The
other thing is
if you get married to someone else,
now you have no reason to go back.
Right?
But what about her? I said, well, this
is not fair. Right? This is not fair.
I don't care about the green card. I
don't care about the citizenship as long as
you're going to ruin your family.
Because he says, once she knows
he's from one of those countries that if
you get married to another wife, this is
the last day of your life. Right? This
is the policy.
So he said if she found out that
I got married to someone else, she will
either shoot me or she will ask for
divorce.
Sure enough,
2 or 3 months later
because he told me,
he applied for a visa for her. They
didn't give him. They always rejected his application.
2, 3 months later he called me and
he said they got they gave visa to
his wife and Children.
And he said, imagine
if I got married to another one.
2 months later, my wife came, it would
have been a disaster. But he said Alhamdulillah
that I listened to
you. I said I made dua for you
and your wife because that was not fair,
man. You wanted just to take care of
yourself and you ignore your wife. So this
is not fair.
So the wife has rights on the husband
and the husband has rights on his wife.
If, if you're working hard, you have
a job, you want to make some,
legacy, you leave behind the legacy, make sure
you fulfill your obligations. There's time for everything,
right? It's time for salah, there's time for
work, there's time for
games, there's time for everything.
So the only difference is some people have
the ability to organize their time. Some people
don't
make sure inshallah you give time to
the family when you get married and don't
be distracted by the different things that usually
take us away from the family.
Also
we spoke about Yusuf Alaihi Salam, why he
refused.
They say Yusuf Alaihi Salam mentioned
three things why he shouldn't do it. It
was not appropriate for him to do it.
He gave three examples.
The ulama say,
the sins that we do in life, the
mistakes that we do in life are 1
of 3.
You either make a mistake or a sin
against Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you violate his
rights
or you violate the rights of human beings.
Your family, friends, people you know, people you
don't know, other human beings in general.
Or the third type,
you make a sin against yourself.
Why? Because if you don't do if you
do something haram, you don't repent,
then you are ruining your life. You will
bring destruction to yourself. And this is why
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, when he talks about
someone who does something wrong to themselves,
and
they wrong themselves.
This is how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Why?
Because in the next life, they will bring
destruction to themselves.
So Alimam Al Razi says, these are the
3 different reasons that Yusuf Alaihi Salam gave
him the ayat,
in order not to do it for his
refusal to fall for the temptation of the
lady. He says,
It says, God forbid. So he mentioned Allah
first because I cannot violate the right of
Allah by committing zina.
And number 2,
your husband
is my master who has been taking care
of me,
and I don't want to be ungrateful to
him. I don't want to betray
my master who has been good to me.
The rights of human beings, the rights of
Allah, the rights of human beings. And the
third one in if
I wrong myself
indeed the wrongdoers will never succeed. So he
mentioned the 3 that the Ulamada talk about
as mentioned by
Aras.
Last time we mentioned a couple of