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ed this particular brother to remain with him, but had to devise
a clever plan, as the king’s law would not permit him to do so.
Allah reveals in the Qur’an:
Then when they were ushered into Joseph’s presence,
he drew his [younger] brother close to him and said: “I
am your brother. Do not be distressed concerning all the
things they used to do.” Then when he had supplied
them with their needs, he put the goblet in his brother’s
bag. A herald called out: “Caravan! You are thieves!”
They turned to them and asked: “What are you miss-
ing?” They replied: “We’re missing the king’s goblet.
The man who brings it will get a camel’s load. Regarding
that, I stand as guarantor.” They said: “By Allah, you
know we did not come to corrupt the land and that we
are not thieves.” They said: “What is the reparation for it
if it, in fact, transpires that you are liars?” They said: “Its
reparation shall be him in the saddlebags of whom it is
discovered. With us that is how wrongdoers are repaid.”
He started with their bags before his brother’s. And then
produced it from his brother’s bag. In that way, We
devised a cunning scheme for Joseph. He could not
have held his brother according to the statutes of the
king—only because Allah had willed it so. We raise the
rank of anyone We will. Over everyone with knowledge
is a Knower. (Surah Yusuf, 69-76)
As a result, the Prophet Joseph (as) was able to keep his
brother, whom he had not seen in so many years, with him.
However, his jealous and cruel brothers slandered and wrong-
fully and most irrationally accused him in his “absence” of
theft: