Page 57 - The Prophet Yusuf (as)

Prophet Yusuf's New Life (as)

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As we can see, the woman openly confessed her guilt and
admitted that Prophet Yusuf (as) had wanted to protect his chastity.
Yet she also repeated that same ugly proposition in front of a large
group of people, commanding Prophet Yusuf (as) to go along with
her, and threatened him with prison and public humiliation if he re-
fused to comply. It can be seen from this just how cruel and bereft of
moral integrity this woman was. This is of course a most astonishing
situation. Maybe it was the woman’s confidence in her position in
Egypt, in her wealth, and the fact that Prophet Yusuf (as) was her
slave, that impelled her to commit this sin. This was a most depraved
suggestion, and Aziz’s wife had no compunction about repeating it in
front of everyone present. This is proof both of her own lack of reli-
gious values and of the other women’s looseness in religious matters.
In the same way that no devout woman could ever embark on such a
transgression, so no devout woman could ever stand by and watch
while something of that sort happened. Moreover, the women de-
scribed in the story remained silent in the face of the threats uttered
by the vizier’s wife and turned a blind eye to her ugly actions.
The Qur’an also relates how Aziz raised no objection to
Prophet Yusuf (as) being thrown into the dungeon, even though he
had seen all the evidence. In the same way his wife turned a blind eye
to Yusuf’s years of imprisonment (as). As can be seen from this exam-
ple, non-believers always support people of a similar frame of mind,
and are able to sit back and watch and remain silent while evil plans
are hatched and set in motion. We see how the city women in the
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