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Sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] 3

 

The waiter and some of the king's ministers went to meet sayydi Yusuf [PBUH], when the waiter came to sayydi Yusuf [PBUH], he kissed his head and apologized to him for forgetting him [PBUH] all that period and for he remembering him just that day. He came with some of the king's ministers to get an interpretation for the king's dream and narrated it to him [Yusuf, O truthful one! Interpret for us: seven fat cows that are eaten by seven skinny ones, and seven green ears and other dry ones, that I mya go back to the people so that they may know] Yusuf 12:41. Then Sayydi Yusuf replied to them [PBUH] [He said: you sow for seven years with persistence and what you will harvest, leave it in its ears except a little of what you will use for eating] Yusuf 12:47. Sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] told them that the interpretation of the cow is "a year", and if he stopped at this and did not complete, he would not be blamed for it, as they asked to know what the interpretation of the cows is. However he completed explaining the vision to show them and us the extent of his great knowledge. He said: the first seven years will come successively and will not be separated, in these years: the grace will prevail in, the agriculture will be great and the water will increase, not only that, but he [PBUH] also guided them to the solution, saying to them: sow the wheat, then leave it in its ears and store it for the seven skinny years that will come later which was mentioned in the Qur'an [then, after that, seven harsh years will devour what you have prepared for them except a few of what you have stored] Yusuf 12:48.

To her, the interpretation of the vision ended, as they asked for interpretation of the vision about fourteen cows and fourteen ears. Sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] continued interpreting to them so that they would know that they were not talking to a priest or an ordinary interpreter, like the interpreters we find in our era, but they spoke to someone who knows the unknown that they know nothing about. He [PBUH] said [then, after that, will come a year when the people will be succored with rain, and they will squeeze] Yusuf 12: 49. When the people heard that speech, they went to the king and told him about what sayydi Yusuf said [PBUH] as an interpretation of the vision which the king had seen. So, the king ordered them to bring sayydi Yusuf [PBUH]. When they went to the prison and told sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] the order of the king, he refused to go out of the prison and said "I will not go out until my innocence is proved and shown among the people" and said to the king's envoy [Go back to your lord and ask him: what about the women who had cut their hands?] Yusuf 12:50. The envoy returned to the king and told him about what happened between him and sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] and what he said. So, the king ordered to bring woman of Aziz Misr and the women who had cut their hands before, he asked them and they answered [Allah forbid! We never knew anything bad about him] Yusuf 12:51. The woman of Aziz Misr said [Now, the truth is shown, I seduced him for himself and he is of the truthful ones] Yusuf 12:51. When the innocence and truthfulness of sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] appeared, he said [Bring him to me, so that I attach him to myself] Yusuf 12:54.

When the king's envoy came to sayydi Yusuf [PBUH], he went out with him and prayed for the people of prison, and wrote on its door "This is the grave of the live ones, house of sorrows, test of the friends and schadenfreude of the enemies". Then he went to the king who came to receive him when he saw him, and welcomed him well. He seated sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] beside him and they talked to each other about his states before and during the prison. When the king noticed in sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] his preponderated mind and great knowledge, he asked him for an advice regarding to this vision and what are the necessary arrangements to survive from this catastrophe. Sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] said to him [Appoint me on the treasuries of the land] Yusuf 12:55. So, the king appointed him, made his treasuries under his control, entrusted the judiciary to him and gave him permission to rule. Then his ruling became forceful. He ordered the people not to sow, anything along the first seven years, except the wheat. He ordered them to dig a big hole for storing the wheat after its harvest. Some people said that he ordered to build domes or buildings like the pyramid for storing in it. The important thing is that he ordered the storing of the wheat while still in its ears and stalks, as the mite do not enter the wheat as long as it is in its ears, for 8 years approximately. Glory be to Allah! The flour can only be left for 7 to 10 days then it becomes invalid and if we store the wheat without ears, it stays valid for 8 to 9 months only, however if  it is in its ears, it stays valid for using for 7 to 8 years approximately. Thus, sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] taught the predecessor and successor how to store the wheat!

Sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] said to the king "when the rainless years come, you feel a strong hunger and this is the sign of beginning of the first year of these seven rainless years". The king went to sleep, once, during the night, he woke up and asked for food, so they brought him food. He ate till his stomach was filled. It was not too long until he felt a great hunger again, he knew, then, that the rainless years have begun.

The Nile water decreased till it became dry and the earth fissured. The people hardly suffered. They went to sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] and bought from him the wheat, firstly, for money, till their houses were empty of money. Then they bought it in exchange for what they own like jewelry and jewels, then in exchange for their houses and properties. When they did not find anything to purchase the wheat with, they sold their sons to sayydi Yusuf [PBUH], then they sold themselves to him to eat. Thus, sayydi Yusuf [PBUH] bought Egypt with all what in it and all who is in it!

So what happened after that…?

 

Written by Ahmed Abbas.

Translated by Fatima az-Zahraa