Tafsir Analysis: Prophet Yusuf's (AS) Imprisonment | Mufti Abu Layth

I'll tell you what let's take speaking of love and people who did fall in love that takes us to the the iconic mention of Yusuf Ali Salaam and silly huh so let's quickly take a look at that if we can write because I did say and then will right now that whether her name was Zul a ho not obviously is you know we don't truly know but this is just how

its how its transmitted often so we all know the story of Joseph of Yusuf Ali Salim but right so what is this incident so somebody told me that look it appears that Yusuf Ali Salaam was punished by God or taught to listen by God and made to suffer longer in prison so I thought what is he talking about and so this was the verse and this is the the kind of understanding okay so we

just go to this so the verse begins with when Yusuf Ali Salim is sent to prison and that begins in verse 36 it mentions what the hell am I I was sitting a fat again so two young men end up in prison with him all I had in the erroneous Arahama and so one of them said I see myself now this is understood to be in a dream or as a vision either a vision or a dream he said I see myself

squeezing wine kind of preparing wine [Music] what color are her in the irani atma-vicara sea Hobson tackle of toy room in the other said I see myself carrying Bread on my head like I've got bread and the bird seemed to be eating away from that it not bitna betta really he in an hour coming and listening so they're not quite sure who Yusuf Ali Salam is but they see this kind of this aura from him this not a divine aura buried divinely inspired aura from him they feel this from his presence they say we see you

from somebody who does asan somebody who has this crisis Ness to them so he interprets the vision or their dream for them hallelujah Takuma arm towards upon heal and become a beta wheelie but before it before it does as a prophet of God he uses the opportunity to invite them to reconnect with God so in this verse he mentions to them that look I will tell you but he says I'm gonna tell you before you even get anything to eat meaning it's gonna happen very soon but just bear with me he says that look and

that is a gift from what God has given me but he makes a statement in metre up to me letter on me let me know Nabila I abandoned the path of a people who reject God I abandoned like that path and he mentions that they are disbelievers and so on and I follow the path of my forefathers Ibrahim was halfway a pub and we do not ascribe partners on to God mark Hanlon an unshakable layman she and then he goes on to say that that is from the the grace of his lord alcaman father-in-law he aleena 1s he says that is from the grace of God upon us but you

see if he just said said it like that it seems like yeah well that's for you but what is God doing for us he says well island nests and upon people were like an excellent NASA logical it's just that most of most people are ungrateful yes I pay a sijin he says my two companions he says hey people guys tell me is it better to worship many gods or one God now what do you actually worship see so he uses this opportunity to kind of remind them of their connection to God he says these are just name Mountain tomato more Antebellum Allah

never revealed any oh he never told you about them you've come up with them and this is where that famous verse which I quoted earlier today when that guy asked and it'll help more inland in there that truly judgment belongs to God and this is a verse that is often misquoted and used to just justify extreme brutality in the name of religion now he then goes on to interpret their vision he says yes I be a surgeon I had a coma for yes terrible camera says one of you will go on to serve his Lord

now here Lord did not mean God it just meant like his king and that's how people use it so in Arabic they do say are above for example people intelligent people are called or babble or cool the Lords of intellect this doesn't mean Lord like because in English we don't use like the way we say in England like you've got the House of Lords and we use the word Lord in a different context you know you've got this Lord so-and-so lord so-and-so as a kind of prestigious the kind of peer ship that they have the lordship so people and they would call a woman a

rebuttal bait the Lord a female version of Lord right of the home Roberts will bait somebody who would take care of the home so he says that this person will give his load to train you give his King to drink he's a Rob to drink well I'm an offer for you Salaam and he has bad news for one of them he says as to the other he will be crucified vitarka look boy tomorrow sea and the birds like the vultures will eat from him poppy al-imran Latifah he to stuff the end now he says dance and such as the matter being decreed now the

interesting I was asked that is this a test that these two people said to him that's there's nothing in the Quran des says that they made their own now some people have said oh by the way they made that all to test him and because he said it God decreed in according there's nothing like that in the that is just the they are making up that narrative that's not in the Quran in the Quran they actually say that we saw this vision or it could have been a vision or a dream they just say we saw like I saw that this was happening now I'm not quite sure how they saw that whether it was a dream or vision but

then it goes on to say that use of ELISA Lam says were all a little ad than a gym in Houma so the one that he assumed was going to be successful some people made a big deal here fundament because it means to assume but they say oh it meant he was certain and someone's honor it's no big deal really but they made it into a big deal some scholars he says corny and Arabic this is important says remember me or mention me or remember me when you're with your hub you unwrap him and you King you're kind of that Lord not like Lord isn't so when you're with

him like putting a good word for me with your robe now and then the same verses for Unseld Shaitaan was economically and the Shaitaan made him forget the thick of the remembrance or the mentioning of his Lord fell abathur physician Abed assonance so use of aleihsalaam remained in prison for a few years now some people have interpreted this to mean the use of aleihsalaam when he said to him mention me with your Lord or put in a

good word he forgot to he basically he forgot to remember Allah he told this guy like he's he ought to be depending on God and rather he depended on this kind and as a consequence Allah made him stay in prison a few years and longer so just to clarify that that once again what some people have understood from this is when he says earth corny and Arabic mentioned me Oh Lord or do my vicar with your Lord

with an Lord here meaning like king or ruler for answer who Shaitaan then Shaitaan made him forget right the vicar of his Lord so here these people are trying to say that oh maybe what this means is the Shaitaan made use of highly Salam forget about Allah like he forgot to say oh yeh to seek help from Allah and he sought help from this person and counts as a consequence he remained in prison that is a very poor translation of that very poor translation and

interpretation in my understanding very poised absolutely inaccurate in my understanding here the antecedent is not antecedent is the the the thing that a pronoun goes back to so if I said this cup place ate over the then the ant is the antecedent is the cup oh you know Yusuf he said he is going back to the antecedent being use of a listener so this ant is the antecedent for the pronoun made him forget is the person that was going to be saved because it

says the one that he assumed would be successful use of al-islam told him mention me to your Lord and the Shaitaan made him forget this mentioning as in he forgot and that makes sense not only was this interpretation favored by many scholars it was what about again for example mentions in his stuff seed he goes we did see UT goes with the Ennis tough seared choke and he seems to kind of go that way you've got even assured he does mention both of them but he goes with he seems to be going with this

interpretation you've got an eg mentions in his German Bayern and he says that in the mentions at first as the first interpretation the antecedent is the shirabe him um as the Shalaby is the one who's gonna pour the alcohol for the serve he's gonna serve his King I taught my what dimensions as the first interpretation it's what they've all we mentioned as the first interpretation and it's the one that makes sense why because look if Ally speaking and Allah is saying oh and the Shaitaan made use of forget about his Lord why not say made him forget

about us made him forget about me God why his Lord why is Allah speaking in such a strange dynamic it doesn't make it does not flow so it seems to be very clear that this was this is very clear that the person forgot to mention him to the king and what else supports that is if you keep on reading the king then has a dream many years later about the cows and he saw seven skinny cows and and so on and they kind of he sees seven fat cows being eaten up by these

seven skinny kind of cows and so on but then what does it mention this servant is there with the king what Allah latina German Huma and this is verse 45 that the one who had been saved says what dark arribada Omar and he now remembered after ages oh I'll not become bitter Willy I will tell you its interpretation let me go back to Joseph so he remembered after many years because the shape on had made him forget for Unseld shape on the kirara be he the Shaitaan

had made him forget for many years so that's what it is it's not that Yusuf Ali Salaam forgot to mention you know forgot to ask God instead of him and therefore as a consequence as a punishment remained in years for many sorry remained in prison for many years that just makes God seem very you know tyrannical it makes him seem very kind of almost childish and reactionary and it does not befit the majesty of God so and that's a wrong interpretation it does not even flow but it is true yes it

is true that look because there is a kind of context where some Muslims have used that some preachers for there because they want to preach to people that oh if you don't say things like this God will punish you so they use these stories they utilize these stories to aid that kind of a an approach see look God even punished his he even you know the Prophet suffered if they didn't say this so it ties into the kind of preaching narrative so they utilize these stories and optimize and capitalize on them but they they are

baseless really and they're very poor translations of the actual verses and the verse does not even flow like that so I hope that clarified that we should really think lo of the of the prophets and we definitely shouldn't think lo of God that God would punish his own prophets or allow them to suffer just because they forgot which makes no sense whatsoever okay what is somebody said what is meant by Shaitaan here for answer who Shaitaan the corapi he this was to show that look Shaitaan here was to show that it wasn't

see when a person forgive for God you see how did he was it just carelessness was it that he wasn't paying attention was it that and it was to show that it was just like man if you want to use the term wait for that to pass if you want to use the term like forces ugly like do we have forces that sometimes you know they are counterproductive a plea so the shaitaan here making him forget why did the Shaitaan make the you know the the

servant of the King forget this why not just say he forgot why blame on the Shaitaan because in a way to show that the person himself was a grateful person it wasn't you see because if we say oh he forgot the picture that's being drawn is that oh this person was just quite ungrateful really you know oh he just forgot he didn't really think much of it but the fact that to to kind of ascribe his forgetfulness to the Shaitaan it adds a different a different kind of

different light to this landscape ish ish demonstrates that this person was not actually an ungrateful person but he just forgot okay so that's that's what it was I mean you could take it literally in the sense that the Shaitaan actually was at play in making him forget you could take you like that oh you could just use this as a literary device to understand that well he wasn't being ungrateful by forgetting is just he forgot he was actually a grateful person cool guys I think with that we better wrap it up