Give us a verdict regarding seven fat cows which seven lean ones devoured...

Give us a verdict regarding seven fat cows which seven lean ones devoured, and seven green ears (of corn) and (seven) others dried out, [12:46] . Yusuf -as said: He said: ‘You shall be cultivating for seven years continuously. Then whatever you harvest, so leave it in its ear except for a little from what you would be eating [12:47] , i.e., do not trample it for it would spoil during the long seven years. So, when it would be in its ear, it would not spoil.

Then there shall come after that seven years of hardship eating away whatever had preceded for these [12:48] , i.e. seven years of difficulties, you would be eating what you had sent forwards during the past seven years’. And Al-Sadiq -asws said:’ But rather it was Revealed as: Whatever you had brought near for these [12:48] . Then there shall come after that a year in which it would rain for the people and during it they would be pressing’ [12:49] – i.e., it would be raining’.

In a Hadeeth, Abu Abdullah -asws (6 th Imam) said: ‘A man recited to Amir Al-Momineen -asws (the Verse): Then there shall come after that a year in which it would rain for the people and during it they would be pressing’ [12:49] , upon the basis of the doer. So he -asws said: ‘Woe be unto you! Which thing they were pressing: Were they pressing the wine?’ The man said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen -asws !

How should I read it as?’ He -asws said: ‘But rather it was Revealed as: and during it they (clouds) would be squeezing [12:49] , i.e., raining after years of famine, and the evidence upon that are His -azwj Words: And We Send down from the clouds abundant water [78:14] ’’. [10] Imam Abu Abdullah -asws says: a year in which it would rain for the people and during it they would be pressing’ [12:49] , by combining the (letter) ‘Ya’ – they would be rained upon’.

Then he -asws said: ‘Have you not heard His -azwj Words: And We Send (Pressing) down from the clouds abundant water [78:14] ’’. [11] ‘Our companions reported from Imam Al-Reza -asws (8 th Imam) a man said to him -asws , ‘May Allah -azwj Keep you -asws well! How did you -asws come to (heir apparent) what you -asws came to it from Al-Mamoun?’ And it was as if he denied it upon him -asws . Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza -asws said to him: ‘O you!

Which of the two is superior, the Prophet -as of the successor -as ?’ He said, ‘No, but the Prophet -as is’. He -asws said: ‘Which of the two is superior, a Muslim or a Polytheist?’ He said, ‘But, a Muslim is’.