Sunday,Jun 21 2009, 04:07:59 PMTHE STORY OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH

Behold Joseph said to his father: "O my father! I did see eleven stars and the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrate themselves to me!" (4) Said (the father): "My (dear) little son! Relate not thy vision to thy brothers, lest they concoct a plot against thee: for Satan is to man an avowed enemy! (5) "Thus will thy Lord choose thee and teach thee the interpretation of stories (and events) and perfect His favour to thee and to the posterity of Jacob― even as He perfected it to thy fathers Abraham and Isaac aforetime! For thy Lord is full of knowledge and wisdom." (6) Verily in Joseph and his brethren are Signs (or Symbols) for Seekers (after Truth). (7) They said: "Truly Joseph and his brother are loved more by our father than we: but we are a goodly body! Really our father is obviously inerror (8) "Slay ye Joseph or cast him out to some (unknown) land, that so the favour of your father may be given to you alone: (there will be time enough) for you to be righteous after that!" (9) Said one of them: "Slay not Joseph, but if ye must do something, throw him down to the bottom of the well: he will be picked up by some caravan of travellers." (10) They said: "O our father! why dost thou not Trust us with Joseph― seeing we are indeed his sincere well-wishers? (11) "Send him with us tomorrow to enjoy himself and play, and we shall take every care of him." (12) (Jacob) said: "Really it saddens me that ye should take him away: I fear lest the wolf should devour him while ye attend not to him." (13) They said: "If the wolf were to devour him while we are (so large) a party, then should we indeed (first) have perished ourselves!" (14) So they did take him away, and they all agreed to throw him down to the bottom of the well: and We put into his heart (this Message): "Of a surety thou shalt (one day) tell them the truth of this their affair while they know (thee) not." (15) Then they came to their father in the early part of the night, weeping. (16) They said: "Oh our father! we went racing with one another, and left Joseph with our things: and the wolf devoured him. But thou wilt never believe us even though we tell the truth."

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