Due to what do I -as deserve the prison?

Due to what do I -as deserve the prison?’ Allah -azwj Revealed to him -as : “You -as chose it when you -as said: ‘Lord! The prison is more beloved to me than what they are calling me to, [12:33] .

Why did you -as not say: ‘The well-being is more beloved to me -as than what they are calling me to’?”’ [8] Th 6 th Imam -asws says: ‘When (Yusuf -as said to the youth): ‘Mention me to your master’ [12:42] , Jibraeel -as came to him -as , and he -as (Jibraeel) struck by his -as leg (on the ground) and (as a result) the seventh layer underneath the earth was revealed, and said to him -as : ‘O Yusuf -as ! What do you -as see?’ He -as said: ‘I -as see a small stone’.

He -as split the stone and said: ‘What do you -as see?’ He -as said: ‘I -as see a small insect’. Jibraeel -as asked: ‘So who Sustains it?’ Yusuf -as said: ‘Allah -azwj ’. He (Jibraeel -as ) said: ‘So your -as Lord -azwj is Saying: “I -azwj did not Forget this insect, in that stone, in the bottom of the seventh firmament. Did you -as think that I -azwj would Forget you -as , until you -as ended up saying to the youth ‘Mention me to your master’ [12:42] ?

Therefore, stay in the prison due to your -as speech, for these some years”. He -asws said: ‘So he -as cried at that, to the extent the walls cried to his -as wailing. So that annoyed the (other) inmates of the prison, and they came to an agreement with him -as upon that, that he -as would cry for one day, and be silent during the next day. But, during the day in which he -as was supposed to be silent, he -as was in a worse state’’.

[9] Then Ali Bin Ibrahim said, ‘Then the king saw a dream and said to his ministers, ‘ And the king said, ‘I saw (in my dream) seven fat cows which seven lean ones devoured; and seven green ears (of corn) and (seven) others dried out. [12:43] And Abu Abdullah -asws recited it as: Seven green corn [12:46] Then he said, O chiefs! Give me a verdict regarding my dream if you are interpreters of the dreams’ [12:43] . But, they did not recognise the interpretation of that.

Then, the one whose dream which he had seen remembered, and he remembered Yusuf -as after seven years, it is His -azwj Word: And one of the two (prisoners) he who had been freed remembered after a long time and said, ‘I will inform you of its interpretation, therefore send me forth [12:45] . He came to Yusuf -as and said, ‘ O truthful one!