Surely your Lord is Knowing...

Surely your Lord is Knowing, Wise [12:6] And Yusuf -as was one of the most beautiful faces of the people, and Yaqoub -as loved him -as and preferred him -as over his -as (other) children. So, his -as brothers envied him -as upon that, and they said regarding what is between them is what Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Related: When they said: ‘Yusuf and his brother are more beloved to our father than us in prejudice – i.e., as a group, Surely, our father is in clear error [12:8] .

They deliberated upon killing Yusuf -as and they said, ‘We shall kill him -as until the face of our father -as is vacant for us’. Lawy (a brother), said, ‘Killing him -as is not allowed, but we can make him disappear from our father -as and we will be alone with him -as ’, and they said just as Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Related: They said, ‘O our father! What is the matter with you that you do not trust us with Yusuf, and we are his well-wishers? [12:11] Send him with us tomorrow.

He will enjoy and play, and we would be his protectors’ [12:12] . Allah -azwj Caused it to flow upon the tongue of Yaqoub: ‘It grieves me that you would go with him and I fear that the wolf devours him while you are heedless from him’ [12:13] . They said just as Allah -azwj Related: They said, ‘If the wolf devours him and we are a group, then we would be losers’ [12:14] . The ‘group’ is ten to thirteen.

فلما ذهبوا به وأجمعوا أن يجعلوه في غيبت الجب وأوحينا إليه لتنبئنهم بأمرهم هذا وهم لا يشعرون ” أي تخبرهم بما هموا به So, when they went with him, and they had formed a consensus that they would be putting him into the bottom of the well, and We Revealed unto him: “You will be informing them of this matter of theirs while they would not be realising [12:15] – i.e. you -as will inform them with what they are plotting with’.

Imam Abu Ja’far -asws regarding His -azwj Words: “You will be informing them of this matter of theirs while they would not be realising [12:15] – He -azwj is Saying: “They are not realising that you -as are (Prophet) Yusuf -as ’. Jibraeel -as came to him -as informing him -as of that’’. [2] Imam Al-Reza -asws (8 th Imam) regarding the Words of Allah -azwj : And they sold him cheaply for a number of Dirhams, [12:20] , he -asws said: ‘It was twenty Dirhams, and the cheaply [12:20] – is the reduced.

And it was the price of the hunted dog, when it dies, its compensation used to be twenty Dirhams’’.