The Qur’anic word /najiyyan/ means to enter into a whispered...

The Qur’anic word /najiyyan/ means to enter into a whispered conversation with someone. Therefore, the phrase /xalasu najiyyan/ means that they gathered together apart from others, for a confidential meeting to decide on what to do. Pleas and requests should not hinder one from executing Divine commands and implementing decisive plans in that respect. In cases where one is a culprit in major disasters and unpleasant matters, the elders are more responsible and the more shameful they seem.

Verily your son has committed theft, and we did not bear witness except to what we knew, and we were not guardians of the Unseen’.” Then the elder brother told other brothers that they would return to the Father and say that his son (Benjamin) committed theft and that the testimony they would present to their father could only be based on the amount of the truth that they were aware of.

They saw the king’s cup discovered and taken out from their brother’s load which proved that he had committed theft. Nevertheless, they started to become aware that the hidden truth of the matter rested with Allah. The verse says: “Go back to your father and say: ‘O’ father!

“And ask at the town in which we were and the caravan with which we travelled hither, and verily we are indeed truthful.” The Arabic term /qaryah/ does not only mean ‘village ’, but it also means ‘a meeting place’ and ‘a residential area’ as well, whether be it a town or a village. Yusuf’s brothers did not have any evidence to prove that he was killed by a wolf when they described the event for their father, but they provided two proofs to support their story in this situation.

Firstly they had witnesses in the town, and secondly, they had witnesses in the caravan among which they were.