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perience goodness, beauty and love," and thus try to establish 'a so-called legiti-
mate foundation on which they can easily carry out any kind of ignominy.'
One other example of hypocrites' desiring to lay the ground for their ignominy
using 'love' as a pretext is provided in the Story of the Prophet Joseph (pbuh). As
we are told in the Qur'an, the wife of the Egyptian Vizier in whose house the
Prophet Joseph (pbuh) lived wanted to approach Joseph (pbuh) and be intimate
with him. The Prophet Joseph's (pbuh) showing a faithful and chaste attitude and

rejecting the woman, offended her immensely. Feeling humiliated, and wanting to
save face and her prestige, she cast aspersions on the Prophet Joseph (pbuh) claiming
that 'he was the one with the desire to approach her.' In order to take revenge
against him, who had hurt her pride, she attempted to defame him by accusing him
both of unchastity and disloyalty to the Vizier. She thus devised a scheme that
would cause the imprisonment of the Prophet Joseph (pbuh).
Obviously, right at the beginning of all these incidents, the woman hid behind
the 'lie of love' to approach the Prophet Joseph (pbuh) and persuade him to act in
line with her desires. However, when he acted against her lower-self and interests,
it became apparent that her claims about love was nothing but a big lie and that she
basically wanted to 'defame him with slanders and have him imprisoned.'
The woman said that she 'loved' the Prophet Joseph (pbuh) a lot. In reality
however, she was full of rage and hatred towards him because of his beauty,
modesty and faith. His stunning beauty physically affected her. However the reason
behind her attempts to him was not love. It was only a fancy and she imitated love
temporarily merely to satisfy her pride. She merely wanted 'to make a splash and

ADNAN OKTAR: In Surah Yusuf, the hypocrite woman is

reported to say, 'You see! It's him you blamed me for. I

tried seducing him but he refused. If he does not do
what I order him…' See that there is issuance of an
order here, how could something like that exist in love?
And what she orders is adultery. '… he will be put in
prison and brought low.' (Surah Yusuf, 32) There is nothing

to be called love here. There is only enmity. If you
asked her, she would say, 'I do love Joseph a lot.' If you
are so in love with him why do you attempt to put him

in prison? Why are you trying to have him imprisoned?
The main goal of all the hypocrites is actually either
killing Muslims or putting them in prison. This is what lies
in the heart of all hypocrites. This has never changed; it was like that at the time

of our Prophet (pbuh), at the time of the Prophet Moses (pbuh) and at the time

of the Prophet Abraham (pbuh). (A9 TV, January 25 , 2016)
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