Page 45 - The Silent Language Of Evil

Harun Yahya

father to let him go with them.
They said, "Our Father! What is wrong with you that you
refuse to trust us with Yusuf when in truth we only wish
him well? Why don't you send him out with us tomorrow
so he can enjoy himself and play about? All of us will make
sure that he is safe." (Surah Yusuf: 11-12)

Later, they left Yusuf (as) in the bottom of a well and went back
to their father with another lie that he had been carried off by a wolf.
They tried to say they were innocent by saying, "But you are never
going to believe us now..."
That night they came back to their father in tears, saying,
"Father, we went out to run a race and left Yusuf together
with our things and then a wolf appeared and ate him up
but you are never going to believe us now, not even though
we really tell the truth." They then produced his shirt with
false blood on it. (Surah Yusuf: 16-17)
Their father realized that they were lying; and said he did not

trust them and that he took refuge in Allah against their evil designs:
He said, "It is merely that your lower selves have suggested
something to you which you did; but beauty lies in show-
ing steadfastness. It is Allah alone Who is my Help in face
of the event that you describe." (Surah Yusuf: 18)
Our Prophet (saas) tells believers that they must avoid telling
lies as such:
"On the Resurrection Day, the worst men in Allah's sight will be the
liars, the proud, and those who entertained hatred in the mind of their
friends." (Imam al-Ghazzali, Ihya Ulum-Id-Din, 3:139)

"A man is enrolled near Allah as a liar if he is accustomed to false

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