Page 97 - The Prophet Yusuf (as)

Yusuf's Time As Governor In Egypt (as)

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On close examination, the brothers really did believe that
their little brother had engaged in theft. Yet as we have already seen,
it was a grave error for them to think in such terms. They should have
known that a believer would never, ever do such a thing, and they
should have thought the best of their brother and assumed that there
had been some kind of mistake. In fact, Prophet Ya’qub (as) behaved
in just the manner one would have expected of a believer. He never
admitted the slightest possibility that his son might be a thief, since he
knew that he was a believer, one who feared Allah. As well as this,
since he knew that the morals of his other sons were far removed from
those of religion, he refused to trust them and assumed that their own
unscrupulous dealings lay at the root of the matter, that it was some
trick of theirs. Prophet Ya’qub’s submission to the will of Allah here is
another example of the upright conduct befitting a believer. Although
he believed that what had happened to his son was a mistake of some
sort and that there was a trick involved somewhere, he immediately
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