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138 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FROM THE QUR'AN

THE MAN RUNNING FROM
THE REMOTE PART OF THE CITY

Aman came running from the far side of the city, saying, 'My people!
Follow the Messengers! Follow those who do not ask you for any wage
and who have received guidance. Why indeed should I not worship
Him Who brought me into being, Him to Whom you will be returned?
Am I to take as gods instead of Him those whose intercession, if the
All-Merciful desires harm for me, will not help me at all and cannot
save me? In that case I would clearly be misguided. I believe in your
Lord so listen to me!' He was told, 'Enter the Garden!' He said, 'If my
people only knew how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me
among the honoured ones!' (Surah Ya Sin, 20-27)

THE PROPHET YUSUF (AS) AND
HIS PRISON COMPANIONS
Two servants entered prison along with him. One said, 'I dreamt that
I was pressing grapes.' The other said, 'I dreamt I carried bread upon
my head and birds were eating it. Tell us the true meaning of these
dreams. We see that you're one of the righteous.' (Surah Yusuf, 36)
He said to the one of them he knew was saved, 'Please mention me
when you are with your lord,' but Satan made him forget to remind his
lord, and so he stayed in prison for several years. (Surah Yusuf, 42)
The one of them who had been saved then said, remembering after a
period, 'I will tell you what it signifies, so send me out.' 'O truthful
Yusuf, tell us of seven fat cows which seven thin ones ate and seven
green ears of wheat and seven others which were dry so that I can re-
turn to them and let them know.' (Surah Yusuf, 45-46)

THE PROPHET YUSUF'S (AS) BROTHERS
He said, 'My son, don't tell your brothers your dream lest they de-
vise some scheme to injure you, Satan is a clear-cut enemy to man.
(Surah Yusuf, 5)
In Yusuf and his brothers there are Signs for every one of those who
wants to ask. When they declared, 'Why! Yusuf and his brother are