Beisse miler rohimn Rohi in the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the
most merciful, heard a lot low heard. Part Excellence presents lessens from the
stories of the prophets by Mufti Ismail even Mussa menk yusef ali Salam. Part
two Joseph, Peace be upon him. Part two about Akato. It's Milah
Rahman Rahim a Handriri Lahiakafa aassl laala who is Seldam abaraka alahibadhla Stafa Aabad.
All praise is due to a Las sub hannahuata Alah. Blessings and salutations upon
Muhammad salalahu alaiha Slam. We ask alasub hannahuata Alah to bless him and all
his companions and to grant every single one of us goodness, beloved brothers and
sisters. Not only have we completed twenty of the chapters of the Quran,
and not only have we completed half of Ramadan. And not only is the
culture in this part of the world of the Bubba and the milk that we
normally distribute in this part of the world, but in sha Allah, from
tomorrow the recitation shall be slightly shorter in that we will be reading one joze
a day from tomorrow, not that it will make a very big difference.
But the reason I'm making mention of this is because do you realize this month
is almost over now? Then the other day we had started it, we
saw the moon, we were standing here, and it seems like a few
hours and we are already more than halfway down this month subhanana, So let
us make the most of it. Sometimes Chaipan comes to us and makes us
feel a little bit lazy. Believe me, there's not much left, very
little left, So don't be lazy this month. Whatllah he we might not
see the end of the month, and whatllah he we might not see another
Amadan. Ever, Allah might decide to take us away before that. So
let's make the most of this and let us turn our lives. If Allah
has given us a gift before we meet him, before we pass away,
and we go to him, that he softens our hearts and we become from
those whom He has befriended, What more do we want? Ma allasu Annahatala
accept us. All we were speaking yesterday of Yusuf alahis Salam, the prophet
Joseph made peace be upon him. How the why of this person who had
purchased him, had bought him had evil intentions, And how a little child
bore witness or a little share head a little depending. There are different narrations
as to who and how it exactly happened, But the moral of it is
he was innocent, and the man knew that this young boy is innocent.
However, this woman was definitely one who controlled her husband. She controlled him
such that even the innocent were made guilty for him. I would like to
draw an example. May alasu anahamat Allah grant us forgiveness. As you know,
we are currentizing the lessons in order to see how they apply to us
in my life and yours. Many of us have people who work for us
in the home or at the workplace. Something goes missing. The first thing
we do, I think she took it. Asta doesn't it happen? Why
does our mind go in that direction? Sometimes we blame them, we fire
them, not realizing in the eyes of Allah, they were always innocent.
So without evidence, we should not speak, and we should not doubt.
Without evidence. It is very dangerous. It is critical if we are to
doubt people with no evidence. They will come a time when people will doubt
us without evidence. Alasubanawa alah safeguardess. So in the same way that we
are hurt when we hear how an innocent man was made to look guilty and
he was a messenger of alas subhanahwat alah. How many of us are guilty
of making the innocent look guilty when it suits us to do that. So
it's important for us in the homes rasulula Allah. He seldom speaks of how
to treat those who work for you. Ijuankum ualukum ja allahmu lahad come from
ankana Ahuhu tatadi He fell you Tomim maul well you'll bis umi ma elbas.
The prophets are allahu A seldom speaks about how to treat these brothers of yours
who happened to be working for you. Yes, it also applied to those
who were slaves at that time, but today the rule would apply to us
for those who worked for us. They are also human beings. If Allah
wanted it could have been the other way around. Maybe our offspring might be
working for theirs. Who knows. So this is why it's important that justice
prevails even at the workplace at all times. Now, Yusuf Adahi Salatua Salam
was made to look like the evil one, and the rumor started spreading around.
Rumors started spreading around the town. The women of the town and the
gossip of the women. Alas says, what alanisa to film madinatimah too lazzi
easy to orrah we too fata see god shaw afa bah in Bala. The
women of the town began to talk that this wife of the Aziz, the
wife of the leader at that time, who had purchased this particular slave,
she is trying to indulge in the wrong act with this particular youngster, trying
to pull him through and so on, and definitely she is totally wrong.
She has been blinded by her own desires. Now, when she heard of
this, she decided to teach them a lesson. She knew that they did
not know how handsome he was. So it is reported that she got some
fruit or something that they could hold with knives, and she decided to have
a party for them, and she let this young boy walk past them.
And Alas su hanna what Ala says in the Koran Phalam Samyat Mimakin Usalad Elatada
Launa mutaka kullawhidantim in Hunsikina. When she heard of this, she prepared a
place. She invited all of them. She gave them a knife each and
so on, and she told him, come come out and I want to
parade you walk from this end to that end. Paramara Aina Akara caltarna idea
who wakul Nahashi la himavasharrah in her in La Malancu carry. When they saw
him, they were overtaken by how handsome he was. And they exclaimed whilst
they were busy cutting, not realizing they were cutting their hands, and they
said, whoa, this is not a human being, this is an angel.
And in the process they cut their hands akbar. It was better for
them to lower their gaze. And from this we do learn something. When
people do not lower their gaze is when people do not understand what it is
all about. There was a young man, and I've given this example here
before, whom I was speaking to, and he tells me, you know,
when you have something and you are happy with it, you buy the
latest car latest. The example I gave a few days ago here was that
our Macedes, and I said, you have the latest masides for you.
It is the latest until you don't know how to control your eyes and you
start looking at even the later murk, and then yours means nothing la hu
akaba. So when you get married, mashallah, it's the latest. It's
your choice. Alhamdulillah. Keep your eyes with blinkers and ishallah it will remain
the latest forever. Malas of Hannah Hawatala, open our doors. May he
grant us understanding. I see the young boys here masha Allah smiling. Mala,
grant you spouses who will be the latest at all times. I mean,
we ask Alas of Hannahwatala to OpenDOS here. What happened us off alai
has salah to us salam. He was innocent, He was forced to do
something these women. If any one of them looked down, they wouldn't have
cut their hands. It also also shows us that when you do not control
yourself regarding the opposite sex, you will be hurt and you will be affected
and inflicted with damage and with disease. It's very apparent and clear from this.
If you control yourself, you will be saved. And this is where
we have all these diseases of the age. Subhanah, Howatala protect us from
all the STDs and hivs and aids and what have you, and melsupnah.
Howatala grant us upright lives. Well, Lai, we achieved nothing, nothing
by engaging in immorality. Absolutely new. Imagine you've engaged in immorality. It
was very amusing, it was meaning. One enjoyed it for a little while.
After that, you grow old, your bones start aching, and now
you're lying on your deathbed and you're busy thinking of the sins you committed in
your life. Was it worth it? The answer is no. But still
a lie is most merciful. And he says, if you've realized even at
that point, we are ready to forgive you, Anna Ala grant us all
forgiveness. So yusuf aale is salahtua salam. Thereafter the plan was hatched and
she told him you must come now it's over. This is it. You
have to come and engage in what I am saying. Do you know what
he says? He made it do art to allah. He raised his hands.
She warned him, if you don't do this, I'm gonna get you
jailed. Remember we said yesterday she told her husband what is the punishment of
someone who intends evil against your own wife? So he had an option of
jail or committing the action. And who was she? She was also very
good looking, very wealthy, very high standing, high status. There was
lots of privacy. Every point was taken care of, in the sense that
if someone wanted to commit a sin, this was the ideal opportunity. But
he raised his hands, Robb sig You know ahbo Inlayami madern Ani, we
in LATAs If and kids war comin a jailing alamatalysis yusu Aalehisalam made this dua.
Then Yeah Allah, for me, it is better to be jailed than
to engage in this sin. For me, it is better to be jailed
than to engage in this sin. And if you are Allah, are not
going to keep it away from me, then I might fall into a trap
and become from amongst the ignorant. What do we learn from this, my
beloved brothers and sisters. It is important we make do our to Allah constantly
to save us from sin. Yeah Allah, save God us from chaithan,
keep us away from him and keep him away from from us. Because you're
alive, you do not keep Chipan away from us. We as human beings,
may falter, and then we will be regretful. So we make to
our to Allah to protect us from evil. That is also a Sunna of
the prophets a Lallah. Another thing we learn. Whenever there is sun that
is facilitated for us completely and the only thing that is blocking us from committing
it is the fear of Allah, we arrive at a new level of spirituality.
This is why rasululas Allah seldom speaks of seven categories of people who will
be shaded on the day of Kiyama. One of them is Radu lun daat
huim Rahatunda tou man Sabina jamad in fatala inn a half a lah, a
woman or a man who has been called to commit a sin by a woman
who is very very good looking, and at the same time she has high
ranking and high status in society. Everything is facilitated. But he looks and
he says, in me a half a lah i, fear Allah malas of
Hannah, howat Ala make us steadfast. Those are the deeds that will come
to our rescue after we've died. Those are the deeds that will grant us
free entry into paradise by the mercy of a loss of Hannah. Howat Alah,
we ask Allah to grant us paradise without reckoning. We know that they
are going to be so many people who will be entering Jenna billahisabin wala ada
without accounting, no punishment, no nothing. As we normally say, through
the green root. They walk straight out and they're gone malas of Hannah.
Howat Ala make us from those so Yusuvalihsalah to a salam. After that he
was jailed. When he was jailed, he was literally the sentence was passed
against him. These women bore false witness and he was jailed. From this,
we learn that those sitting in the jails, and we'd like to dedicate
a little bit of time for those sitting in those correctional services. I called
him this afternoon correctional service depots. Mala protect us all those who are seated
there. We know that sometimes they are innocent. Some of them are innocent,
not all of them are guilty. Because look at this, the witness
was guilty of bearing false witness. We ask Allah's protection. When Yusuf Ali
Salah Tua Salam entered alas says Wada Halamar Siji Affatayani. There were two youngsters
who entered the jail with him. As soon as they looked at him,
they seen this man. He looks to be a very very good man.
So look the character, the conduct, the appearance, the mannerism, the
etiquette of an individual should be able to tell the rest that this person is
good. The way we behave, the way we speak, the way we
act, our character, our conduct, our imeren must automatically reflect upon us
to the degree that those around us should be able to say the evening La
radu lun saleh. By the will of Allah, this looks like a pious
man. H. This looks like a good woman. So this is what
happened with Ya Salam. As they were entering, these two men recognized him.
They'd seen him kla ahaduma in Arani as haamra in Arani ahm see rubins
andomin nabitauili in narakamin a masini. The first one says, oh, Yosuf,
I have seen a dream. In my dream, I saw that I
was squeezing some juices. I was squeezing wines and the other one says I
saw a dream that there was a loaf or a bread on my head,
and the birds were eating from it. The birds were eating from it.
Please, can you tell us what is the meaning of this dream? You
look like a good man, lahu akabar. That means he was very helpful.
Now I'd like to spend a moment again to say, when a person
is sentenced to a jail term, don't lose hope. It's not the end
of the world. Those better than you have spent time there, may Allah
protect us. So use of alais salam. He did not get depressed in
the jail. He spent quite a bit of time in the jail. He
did not get depressed. He used the opportunity for dawa. He used the
opportunity to call people towards Allah. He used the opportunity. Now I was
good, I had good character, good conduct. I'm now in the jail.
These people have asked me a question. I need to make sure that
I use the opportunity to explain to them a point or two before I give
them the meaning. So he sees the opportunity immediately. You see, when
we looked at the story of Nu, the prophet Noah may peace be upon
him. We found that he used every means at his disposal to call the
people to Allah, and we heard about it. So in our times,
it would be our duty also to use every means at our disposal to spread
the message. Whether it is a tweet, whether it is a message on
the net, whether it is a message with any other media, whether it
is a call in the message, whether it is a madrasaware we are teaching
directly, whether it is a newspaper article, whether it is a radio program.
No matter what it is, whatever you can do, please engage in
it. Because the opportunities of calling people towards Allah are limited to your life,
and even in your life, they will be limited to your capacity and
capability. So when you have it, don't waste it. All open our
doors. Usuvala Salam was not going to languish in the jail forever and ever.
No, when he was there, he made sure, this is a
chance. There's only two people, but let me try with them. Subhanama,
So he says, carl Alaya ta kuma famator zakhani in kumaili kabala kuma.
He says, don't worry before the next meal. I will tell you
the meaning of your dream. But in the meantime between now and then,
I want to talk to you about something. The first thing I want to
talk to you about is how Allah has blessed me. I am the son
of Yakub, who is a prophet, who is a son of another prophet,
who is his hat, who is a son of another prophet, who
is Ibrahim al Akaba. And he's making mention, and he says, many
people are ungrateful of what Allah has given them. Many people do not know,
and they are ungrateful of what Allah has bestowed upon them. So look
the most noble. When Nabis alalaho ale he was Seldam was asked who was
the most noble of the prophets, obviously after Muhammed Salah hell he was slam.
This nobility is being spoken of lineage. He says, well, if
you look at Yusuf ali Salam. And I made mention of this a few
days ago, he is an Abe, son of an Abi, son of
an Abi, son of a khalil. The level of a Khalil is higher
than an Abe. It's a friend of a last with anaho to Alah,
Ibrahim Alaih is sala to a salam. What a great lineage, yet he
was still in the jail lahu akaba. This shows us that when you are
going through something negative in your life, it's not a sign that Allah is
angry with you, not always. It is the condition of the heart that
determines that. If you are going through goodness and your heart is not content,
there's some problem with your spirituality. And if you are going through test
after test where limbs have been amputated, people have been lost in your midst
your loved ones are gone and so on, and you are still saying alhamdulillah,
it's not a punishment. It's a test from Allah and you are passing
it and you are now going on to new spiritual levels. So use of
alaih is Salah to a salam subhan allah. He says, Oh, my
companions, I want to tell you, these are the gifts of Allah upon
us. And you know a lesson we draw from that. No matter what
your lineage is, it's not going to help you neither in this world nor
in the next. It might have a temporary assistance for a moment, for
as long as people are looking up to it. After that, you're on
your own. You're on your own. Rasulu lasa was Selam tells his wife
and his daughter, May peace be upon them all. Lah Am liku Anki
men a lahi chai, and I don't own anything for or against you.
Whether lass subhanah hawat alah. You are responsible for your own deeds. We
ask a loss Subhannah hawat Alah to grant us the intercession of Muhammed Salalah a
hell. So it's important for us to know this. Yusef ali Salam then
says, yeah, Sir, hebai is sie Jenny. Oh my companions,
Look at how beautifully he's calling them beautiful words. Oh my beloved, two
companions of the jail, my comrades who are seated here, Arnold Babu moteferri
Kunahai ron I mean launa. He don't look. Is it better to worship
so many little deities and God? Or is it better to worship the one
who made you, the supreme, the most powerful? Who is better to
isship? So he engaged in a discussion. Look all the prophets called towards
Tahed, they called towards worshiping one Allah. And we've stressed this. This
is why I say Mashallah. In Cape Town we have a city which is
known as the city of the reciters of the Quran. Together with that,
we want to make it a city of the understanders of the Koran. I
mean, so we want to marry the two and then in sha lah,
we will be able to be a beacon of light in this world. Allah
grant that to us. Walahi, you want the best fur lah in my
opinion, come down to Cape Town. You will have powerful reciters. Now
we also want people who can understand the Quran as powerfully be nillah by the
will of a lass of hanahawat anah, because wal LLAHI even if you just
read the stories of the prophets and who get their messages, it will solve
your problems. Alla Suhanah to Alah grant as solution to all our mess So
Ala suhanahwat Ala. Thereafter speaks about how this use of al Islam gave this
daur and he spoke to them, and whether they accept it or not is
not mentioned. We don't know, but he tells the one after that after
he makes mention of it, and he says, look, don't worship more
than one God, worship whoever made you, same message as Ibrahim. And
he says there that I have my forefathers. They have trained us one after
the other, and they have made sure that every one of us know that
you only worship one God, your supreme Deity, and nobody else, whoever
made you, whoever created you, You put your head on the ground solely
and only for him. After that, he says, yeah, sahibe in
sigini am ahadun kuma faskamra wam malaha, fayus labu feta called al amuli.
That's tefty, oh, my comrades in this jail. The first one of
you, you're going to be let free and you will be serving the king
here and you will be squeezing all his juices for him. That's the interpretation
of your dream. And as for the next one, very sadly, you're
going to be crucified, executed and the birds will eat from your head.
Now, before they could say no, no, no, I didn't see
that dream, because what happens sometimes to people when you told her your dream
means you're going to be doomed. They say no, but I didn't really
see that because they really scared they worried and they thinking to themselves, now,
what if this really does happen. So before that, kodoyl Amru he
said, look, the matter has been decided. It's over. Whether you
now say you've seen it or you didn't see it, that is what is
going to happen. And I've been informed this through inspiration. So then he
looks at the one who was going to be released and he says, wakar
ali lady one hmmm in human courney in arab Bic. He says, look,
you who are going to be let loose, you're going to be free.
You're going to be there with the king. I'd like you to make
mention of me with him, because you know, I'm an innocent man.
You know I'm a good man. You know what has happened. Try and
mention my name there so that I don't have to serve such a long sentence
and so on. Alas is for Sagenybil Bossing. You know, in the
excitement of being let free, he forgot, he forgot about the man in
the jail, and he was gone there and so excited. Sometimes we promise
people things and then in the excitement of the moment, we forget completely what
we promised. In that case, write it down. It doesn't mean you're
becoming old alas of Hanahua to Ala grant ask goodness. So here we learn
something. To help someone come out of the jail is also an act of
worship. To serve those who are in the jails is also an act of
worship. The hearts are the soft tests. When a person is serving a
jail sentence, they might be very physical at the beginning, but when they
realize this, no where I am going besides within this parameter of whatever it
is here, they soften up, they cool down. So we are now
addressing those who are serving sentences in the prisons, and I know they are
listening to me because I get messages from them every other day that we are
listening to you. Subhanama. The message is, seize your time whilst you
are serving in that place, and make sure you leave the place having earned
as much as you can from that particular prison. If there are people around
you who know a little bit more, go to their feet and try and
learn. I have visited many prisons in this particular country, and we've seen
good Muslims who are there. Some of them are Hafa. They know the
Kuran, and they are busy teaching the others for an in a manner that
when some come out, they now know more Dean than when they ever or
before they went in. The same is happening in the United States and in
other countries where people are being softened towards Dean and religion. Alasubanahata Allah grant
as opportunity to serve. There are prison boards Rodama and people who are voluntarily
working. It's our duty to support them because we don't know tomorrow. I
might be there, you might be there sometimes for no reason, as we
said, just like Yusuf Ali Salam was there. It doesn't mean we have
forgotten them. We pray for them. We try our best to also remember
them. We send messages to them, we will try to help them,
we will try to teach them, and at the same time, within themselves,
they best use that time in a way in a manner that will be
more beneficial. Because there's only one chance you get. I know, in
the UK and in other places they have courses that you can do even here
in this country, courses varsity degrees. You can start in the jail and
if you're serving a seven year sentence, you might come out with a pH
d Allah protect us. Now we want to use that for an Islamic cause
as well. Remember if you come out now, you are half of the
Kuran. It was worth that sentence. Malasubanah howat Alah grant us all goodness.
Remember we need to make do aur for one another. And on this
day we make do aur for all the inmates, and we ask Alas Subhana
hawat Ala to have mercy on them, to open the doors for them,
the brothers as well as the sisters who are in the jails. Malas Subhanah
howat Aala opened the door for them. Going back to the story of yusuvale
Hsala to a Salam, one day the king sees a dream. Wakar al
maniko in aba karanti seeman yeah kulun sabrangelabazatin hodo i am. He said,
yeah, Malah have tony if yeah ya intumliro table. The king sees a
dream which was very weird because he saw seven thin cows eating up seven fat
ones. Now it's supposed to be the other way around, so this didn't
make sense to him. And then he'd seen seven dry corns and seven green
ones, and this, for some reason made him think. He got up
and he felt that this is now a message. So he asked his people,
Oh, my people, please, can someone interpret this dream? What
did they say? Polo ahlam? They said, Nah, this is just
a nightmare. It's just a dream. It's one of those weird dreams that
everybody dreams. All Granta's goodness, I want to pause here for a moment.
When we dream, our dreams, nine times out of ten are connected
to what we were thinking about, what we've seen, what we worried about,
what we have been pondering over, and so on. Nine times out
of ten it's just like a sixth sense. You're sleeping and now you've seen
certain things not really connected to any message, and so on. So there
are some people who get excited every little dream and want to jot it down
and pretend like it's working that came from Allah. No, let's not get
too excited about dreams. It is a disease to get excited about dreams.
But at the same time, if you have a dream in the last hours
of the night, meaning the time of the Hadjude slightly before the fudge of
time, and it bothers you, and it repeats itself. It's recurring.
Most probably you should ask someone it's meaning, but with the following conditions.
Firstly, do not spread that dream around to everybody. I had this dream.
I had that dream. No, it is only for you and for
someone you trust with interpretation, So you will ask them, Look, I've
seen this dream. It's real bothering me? Would it mean something? And
you get a good interpretation, and believe me, if you've asked more than
one person. The narration of the prophets all allaho ale was Alam, he
says, most probably the first one you asked will be true, So you
better ask someone who's at least got some positive thinking. A loss of Hannah
howat ala grant as understanding. Thereafter you have a bad dream that someone had
seen, you are supposed to slightly spit on the left three times, say
oh the billah him in a chipan and rajin, turn the other way and
go and sleep, and if you'd like, in the morning you can give
out a little charity and a loss of hanahuata Allah protects us through the blessings
and mercy that he sends. When we give out a charity. Now this
dream, nobody knew the meaning. After some time, this young man remembered,
Hey, there was someone who interpreted my dream and it was true.
It was true. So let me go to him. I ask this king,
do you allow me give me permis to get back to the prisons.
There is someone who can help us. So he was sent you. So
for are you ha siddyko? Oh? Yusuf, my beloved friend, he's
come back. After some time he came back. He says, yes,
what is it aftina? We want a fatua meaning we want an interpretation of
this dream. And he related the dream and he says, this is what
the king saw and this is what happened. So Yusuf a Hasla towards Salam
immediately responded, ada abba from Hasatu, fads Colila from my team in bad
Dad Nama goddamnum in Colina min from my team in he ass your own.
He says, oh, listen, you're going to have seven years of very
good crop and produce. You should save as much as you can in these
seven years of good produce because after that there is going to come seven years
of drought when nothing will be produced, so you will have to use whatever
you've saved, and you'll have to bring it and after that it will return
back to normal. You'll have a year flourish. So this man ran back
to the king and he interpreted it, and the king says, where did
you get it from? He says, well, there's a certain man.
Now look look now he remembered there's a man in the jails, and from
that man he gave me this. So the king says, we call al
Malikotnibi. The king says, call him, bring him here, take him
out of there. He's not supposed to be there. We want him to
come here, and we want to talk to this man. It makes sense
what he is saying. Phalanmajasono calogia in a big fasal huma ballons what in
Latin caln in now baby kadingally. When the messenger went to call him,
he said, masha Allah, this is my opportunity to clarify my name.
They accused me of committing a sin. Go and tell that king of yours
that what happened to those ladies who cut their hands? And all those witnesses
who are bearing witness against me? Where they false or were they true?
Find all that out and then come and see, come and get me after
that? What do we learn from this? Whenever an innocent man has somehow
been looked upon as guilty, there will come a time when Allah will give
him an opportunity to clarify his name. You don't have to worry allies there.
People talk, people say, people spread rumor, people want to gossip,
people want to send SMSes, and people want to send emails, and
people want to do all sorts of things. No problem. If people are
accusing you of something that you are not guilty of, Allah will give you
the opportunity one day, sooner or later in shah Lah for that name to
be clarified and cleared by the will of Allah. Don't worry. They don't
own any of your bread or butter. Alasubanah to Alah grant as bread as
well as butter, so alasubana at Allah makes mention of this in the Quran.
And then when the messenger came back, the king had no option but
to call the queen and to call this woman and all the others, and
to say, look what happened exactly, let us know. Let us know,
because now we've got some serious matter that has come here and we need
this man and we need to clear his name. So now the woman had
to literally put her tail between her legs and come and surrender. Allaha hasl
halko an a rawat fsi well in Nahu Lamina, saying, these are the
moments of the truth. I was the one who was guilty of trying to
leo him. He is completely innocent and honest, and he was truthful always.
So hanaha, look at the clarification of the name and after that use
of valet Islam is called into the palace. So what happened, he says,
calla jali aala raza in ill in Haynali. He says, listen,
the best for you to do is make me in charge of the granaries what
we would call maybe the minister of agriculture or something of that nature, in
charge of the production the produce the granaries and so on, and I will
definitely look after it. I am an honest, upright human being. In
shah Allah, you will find me to do a good job. Loss of
hannah hawatala grant as goodness. We learn from this that when we are employed,
we must fulfill properly. When we have been employed to fulfill a job,
we must be honest and we should fulfill it bearing a loss of Hannahuatala
in mind, without cheating, without deceiving. No, not at all.
We should not deceive or cheat the system around us, just because we are
in a position where nobody's going to catch us. Allah is watching, and
Allah knows there is no baraka, no blessing in that wealth that came to
you through deception. Alas of hanahawa to Allah help us to get rid of
that type of wealth and protect us from it. So after that Ala suhanahawata
Alla says, the years continued, the seven years Marshallah. The granaries were
full, full, full, and he had devised a plan and a system
where thereafter, when the drought started, people would come in certain system and
they would collect their rations. Each male must come himself, he must pick
his bag up and go so hanahlah. And after a while, Alas is
now look at how the brothers of Yusuf alahis Salam. They were also affected
by the drought. They were also affected by the drought. And this was
many many years later. It is reported that more than thirty years later.
This happened because he was a youngster. Now he grew up. He spent
so much time in the jail. His father, on one hand is making
doah, yeah, Allah, unite me with my son. Yeah, Allah,
unite me with my son. Laho akaba so alas says Waja Sufa Alpha
mum lahom, the brothers of Joseph made peace be upon him walked in.
He immediately recognized all of them. They were ten. He recognized all of
them. They didn't know who he was because when he had seen them,
they were already adults. But when they saw him, he was a child.
When a child becomes an adult, the features change. You have march
allah beard and you have different features, and they look at you and say,
oh, it's you and so on. That's if they're lucky. Otherwise
they won't even tell so yusuf aalih is salam. It didn't make them feel
bad. But he went there as they wanted to collect. They had to
pay a certain amount and collect. So as they were making their payments and
so on, he looks at them and he starts asking them questions, who
are you, where do you come from? They started saying, we are
the children of the prophet Jacob and what have you and how many brothers are
you? Well, you know we are eleven. They missed out one completely.
He was in front of them. We are eleven, but I only
see ten of you here. Well, you know the one is at home
and so on. No, you must bring him. You will not take
his ration. You're not allowed. He must come in person to collect his
ration. Otherwise we're not giving it. So he hatched that plan, they
understood it, and so on, and after that, hannahuatla grant us all
the wisdom of use of ali is Alam. Look at how wise he was.
He didn't make them feel unwanted. He didn't remind them. Yeah,
you, the people who threw me in the well, you did this,
you'd know nothing of that nature. That's all gone, because Allah has already
raised him far above them, far above them. Their plan was his downfall.
Allah says, hang on, it is through your plan that now he
will go far beyond. And remember one thing we must mention this. One
negative thing happened. Two negative things happened. The first one was he was
taken by his own brothers. They were planning his killing, his death.
Secondly, they threw him into the well. Thirdly, he was picked up
by people and considered merchandise rather than being set free. Fourthly, he was
sold. Fifthly, the person who bought him mal treated him. Sixthly,
they had a court case against him. And after that he was actually proven
guilty when he was innocent. And over and above that, the seventh and
eighth point he was jailed. And it was so bad. And on top
of that, when he told his man to remember him, that man forgot
so eight or nine bad things, one after the other. Imagine if it
had to happen in our lives, I think the bulk of us would say,
Hey, someone's been to visitor which doctor here? They're engaging in magic
against me. I can feel it. I've just got a spit of bad
luck. That's the type of statements. We utter, Well, he very
bad. Why don't we understand it's from Allah, make do to Allah.
Now when the doors opened, look at how one by one they all opened
from the prison straight to the seats la hu akaba, straight to the seats
banah. Much ala grant is a deeper understanding. So thereafter they went back
to their father, and before they left, use of alais alam quietly whispered
in the ears of some of his men that look, you know the merchandise
that these people have brought, don't worry on the house, which means you
know, I'll pay for this and so on. You put it back into
their bags before you seal the bag, and then seal the bags and let
them carry it. So he put back the merchandise, he sealed the bags
and they went. When they went home, ya abana muni, i'm in
al kilos inha ahana nektel well in la hula have him our father. We
have been prohibited from this one measure because we didn't take our brother with.
So send the brother with and we will protect him. Manu kumara in kama,
I mean to Kumar la ahim cobble. The father says, you want
me to trust you with him like I trusted you with his brother before.
Simple question flah hoa on half our allah is indeed the protector yea salam.
He knew that there is something hatching here. Anyway, they were now quiet.
They didn't know what to say. They started opening their bags. Hey,
they noticed this, all the merchandise in the bag over and above the
green Yeah, Abana manabi hadhbiva ano d ela in Juanami helena ahana one as
the du quaila bay oh our father, what more can we ask for?
Here's all this merchandise is back in here. We can take it and go
and give it back to them. And on top of that, we will
get another measure. Now at least they were honest. They want to now
return it because they said, look, this is not ours, we're supposed
to return it. So let's get back there. And they told the father
that we will at least get one more measure. So we are going to
go there, send him with So the father says, learn or sea huma
akum hata tunimuthi, come in, Allah, I am not going to send
him with you until you swear by Allah that you are going to bring him
back to me, unless you are surrounded letter tonanibe in nahha tab, unless
there is something beyond your control. So Allah says palaukaum ta lah' lah Manapulu
waking. When they had promised and sworn by Allah, still he made it
do a He says, only Allah is the one whom I lay trust in
regarding what you have said. What do we learn from this? When you've
lied once the next time no one believes you. You see that they lied
once when they took us of alahis Salam. Now they are telling the truth.
Nobody believes. So this is a lesson for us all. Let us
stop lying. We ask Alas subnahawa to Alah to grant us truthfulness. May
Allah forgive our shortcomings. May he make us from those who have no reason
to lie. I know there are some who say, ask no questions and
you shall hear no lies. I've heard that before. But to be honest,
we need to tell the truth no matter what. Speak the truth,
otherwise remain silent. It's better for you alasubanahawa to Allah grant us a deeper
understanding because it's your reputation that is at stake. So Alas subhanahawa to Alah
says, while a'm mada alu a lay sufa ali Ahah, these brothers were
coming in, and just before they walked in, there is one point I
need to make mention of yakubala he Salam says, Oh, my children,
I have a piece of advice for you. What is the piece of advice
ye have any Allah? Tata fulu in babinhed, but the fulo inabin muntaferne
pah, Oh, my sons, they are going to be eleven of you,
huge handsome boys, all entering from one door. Children of Jacob.
There is a possibility the evil eye might overtake you as you're walking in.
So don't walk in all together from one door. I want you to walk
in from different doors, two from here, two from the two from there,
and enter from all different doors. People mustn't recognize you and see and
say you might be affected by the evil eye. Amar. This is what
we learn from Sura Yusuf as well, that don't intentionally give people the chance
to affect you by the evil eye. Even for them, sometimes it's unintentional.
And what is the evil eye? The Hadid says, an eye and
know hakpun the evil eye. It can happen, It occurs. How does
it occur? When someone sees something that they like and they don't relate it
to Allah. So you see someone very good looking and you don't say masha
lah alhamdulila subhanah la tabarak la. There's no name of Allah made mentioned of
and you just gup and that's it. Did you see that? So suddenly,
as he's turning his vehicle it's now creamed on the side akabar. Why
because they looked at it and they just said, oh, what a car,
But they didn't say masha a lah. Now this we learn, and
it's important for us to learn it at this point. Always never affect people
with your eye as well. Remember you see a little child, marshall la
cute, don't you say cute? No, say masha lah, sell hamdulillah,
tabarak law and so on. Now for your information, to protect yourself
from that, you read ayatol cur see three times every morning and evening the
last three surahs of the Quran three times every morning and evening, with one
or two do ours. Audu di kalimati la hitamti mish mahalak. I seek
the protection of Allah from all the evil that he has created, and I
seek Allah subhanah to alas protection completely. We read that dua morning and evening,
we will be similar to he who has a metal armor around him against
black magic, against this type of the evil eye, against all these things.
Malasuhnahuatala. Grant us the strength to read it morning and evening without being
lazy. It doesn't take more than ten minutes of your time, but it
protects you until nightfall, and if you read it in the evening, it
will protect you until the morning. So it's important for us to know this.
So the children walked in, two from there, two from there,
two from there, and Yusuf valet issalam seize them. He's seen these and
he knew automatically all these are connected. There are my brothers. So when
he got a chance with his one brother, he looks and he says,
in the anna ahunka falah tabetha is, don't worry. I am your brother.
Don't worry what they are going to do. We've hatched a little plan.
I am Yusuf, And you know what, don't worry. Just play
with the flow, which means I've hatched a plan to detach you from these
and in shah lah it will work. You pretend ignorance. So Yusuf Ali
his Salam, is now planning against his own brothers. There was a time
when they were planning against him, but they were planning evil. Here he
is planning something good. He wants his brother. He must have missed his
family for so long. He doesn't know yet whether they are softened or whether
they are still hard in the sense that if their hearts are softened, or
if their hearts are still hard against him, so Phalama jahasa Jahasim jah alas
a yatafi ra hahi from Aa to hell hero in na kum la sari.
When he had given them their due, he quietly placed the gold mug of
the king into the sack of his brother, and it was sealed. And
as they were leaving, an announcer called out, hey, you people are
thieves. What they look back? They said, we are not thieves.
Carlo talai lahkadelim to maginanin of sidafil arbi Warman couldn't say. They said,
by Allah, we have not come to your land to cause corruption, and
we are not thieves. Carlu mad taftidun Carlo aftrin al malik jimja abih him
Lubari and abizaim. What a beautiful story being related by a loss of hannah
amatanah. What is it that you have lost? They ask? So the
response is, we've lost the smug of the king, and whoever comes with
it shall be rewarded. Whoever finds it will be rewarded, and the person
who's stolen it, obviously will be penalized. So they ask a question,
what do you think should be the punishment of the one who has stolen the
mug? They say, well, no problem, you keep him, you
imprison him himself. So now Yusu vale Hi Salam is happy and he starts
looking and his men start looking into the sacks and intentionally, intentionally, he
doesn't search that sack. First he starts off with the one, so they're
happy. The next one they happy, the next one day happy. He
finishes all ten of them, they happy. And then he comes finally to
the last sack and they're about to say, you know what you see?
We told you we're not here to steal, and he says, here you
are. Here's here's this mug lahu akbar. They took it out. Now
the brothers are looking at their brother and what do they think? They think
he's a thief. They think he's a chief. So what happened? They
look and they say, hees re ll for father Zaraha ahulahoma kablu. What
a bad statement, they said, if he stole We want to tell you,
o leader, that his brother was also a thief before him. They
don't know they're talking to him yusuvale is Slam kept it as laha Yusuf walambi
halam yusuvale Islam kept that intact. Imagine, if it was one of us,
we'd say, hey, guy, listen, relax, That's what would
have happened. But with him, no, he kept it relaxed. Inside
he says, no karla toumi sharamkhana. Within himself he said, haha,
these people are worse than him. They are in a worse condition. Now.
They looked at him. They were worried because amongst themselves they promised their
father, we are going to bring this brother back. Now they say,
lahu akabar Carl yalla assu in nlauaba shaika kabilah ahadanam inaa, come in almo
seeing oh as is, oh you who is a leader here? We want
to tell you that we have a father who is a very old man,
saihan kabiran. He's an old man, So why don't you release him and
take one of us in his place? Today they are ready to give one
of themselves in the place of the one who is truly found guilty in this
sense according to them, But at that time they were ready to sacrifice their
own brother for nothing, no son of his. So they're learning their lessons
slowly but surely alas Suhanahatala is panel beating them into the right direction. Now
you find these people mashallah, they're ready to give them. So what does
what is the response? Maa allah he andhoda in La Majada Matana in the
Lah volume, How on earth can we punish someone who did not come at
the crime and leave the one who is guilty. We are not people who
punish the innocent. Yusuf Alahisalam himself was punished when he was innocent, so
how would he ever punish someone who is innocent? He says, we won't
do that. We would be oppressed as if we did that anyway. Now
there was a problem because the oldest brother, he said, you know,
I really cannot now go home because we do. You remember what we told
our father. We told him and we swore by Allah that we're not going
to come back except with this brother. Now the brother is not there,
how can we return. I'm not coming back. You people, go back
elgio ella abikum fakno ya abana in abana casarata. Go back to your father
and tell him the truth that look, your son is a thief. And
he's told Wama shahidna in la bima alim na. And we have not witnessed
anything but what we know. We know Akabar was alan Korea lati kun nafi
ha well a lati a nafi. You can ask anyone they've seen what happened.
You can tell your father that asked the village, Ask these people,
ask the caravan, ask anybody who came with us. They all know the
story. This is what happened. Now when they went. The answer of
Yakub Jacob made peace be upon him. He says, bal saua lacoms don't
cum. I'm rang fasdor jemmy asalah t any him jemmy uh. He says,
now he's lost three children. Two were gone and the one refused to
come back. He says, my patience is very beautiful. I have hope
that Allah will bring back all all three of these children to meet together.
I have hope. So the brothers are still saying talahi sofar hata ta kuna
haaban auta kuna mean al hali kin as for Joseph, may peace be upon
him. You don't even have to bother, mentioning him, you're not going
to see him, and he far away. It's gone. That story is
over, and this father says Alamo men Allah him ala Talamon. I know
from Allah what you don't know. What was that knowledge? The interpretation of
the dream. It's stillless to come true. The young boy told me he
saw a dream that means Allah will raise him high above everybody. I still
need to see and ishallah. Tomorrow we will get to see how it unfolds
and how it ends, and thereafter we will move on to some other prophets
of Allah supanahma Talah until we meet again. Asura lahu is selam abara ka
aala and avin Ahmhammad Subhanah lah Behamdi Subhanaha Lahama bhamdik whitelock