Page 21 - The School of Yusuf (as)

There Are Many Lessons To Be Learned From The Stories Of The Messengers

between them if you used your intellect.” (Surat ash-
Shu‘ara’, 28)
Pharaoh responded with the following:
… “If you take any deity other than me, I will certainly
throw you into prison.” (Surat ash-Shu‘ara’, 29)

The reason Pharaoh threatened Musa (as) with imprisonment
was for his faith in Allah, and his rejection of Pharaoh’s divinity,
clearly not instances that would justify a prison sentence.
The following pages will demonstrate in detail that there was no
crime to justify Yusuf’s (as) imprisonment. He was a victim of false
accusations, and even though all recognize his innocence, “they
thought that they should nevertheless imprison him for a time.”

(Surah Yusuf, 35) Thus he spent many years in prison. For this rea-
son, all the believers who, after Yusuf (as), were slandered and sub-
jected to the unjustified attacks by the unbelievers, and then
imprisoned, did not despair, but appreciated its educational oppor-
tunities and aspired to “graduate” from the School of Yusuf.
The subject of this book is imprisonment, which has become a
form of education for believers, who have been subjected to it
through the conspiring of the unbelievers. There, they are educated
by our Lord. At first, those imprisoned for pursuing Allah’s path of

righteousness, would appear to be punished, while in reality they
are receiving an education, and gain insight that is beneficial both
worldly and spiritually. It must be clearly remembered that such
hardship is a means for attaining the blessings of Paradise.

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