Does Surah Yusuf prove the evil eye is real?

it's as though they want to trip you over the way they're looking at you they're staring at you and when they can't do that then they say because obviously it's too novel that he is insane you know in the whole image that the quran uh mentioned so i thought i'll just show that and the reason i'm showing that is for i don't know why why do i have this one here let me just see must be a reason all right now this is something else um let me people the other verse that

they use and i'll bring this up is uh surah yusuf now this is so silly okay it's so silly that people use surah yusuf [Laughter] uh to to show this because really there is nothing that you know there's nothing let me just see um

all right okay if i've also got here the i'm just seeing if i've got it on the screen i may not have it on the screen that's not a problem right so this surah yusuf now sort of use of one of the most amazing surahs in the quran it's the only surah that contains the whole thing is almost a narrative it's like a story that follows through and it's the story of joseph but what and everybody i'm sure is familiar with the story of joseph if not then do read it please it is amazing in the quran

now you know that what happens from you know yusuf ali salam he ends up becoming this great in a seat of power by helping the king interpret certain dreams or visions that they've had about an impending famine that is to strike egypt but moving forward um

let me just get to this uh moving forward his siblings who had betrayed him earlier on the majority of them and they'd kind of landed him in this difficulty they come to egypt for crops and to kind of like trade and it mentions what

and then the brothers of joseph came and this is to egypt while joseph is in a position of power he recognized them but they obviously don't recognize him because they would have they would never imagine that joseph is now this you know this this king um or king-like figure in this powerful kingdom of egypt because they sold him as a slave you know they in fact they didn't even sell him as they they chucked him uh in this in this world to die so they're assuming that he's he's dead now what happens

is so he when he's providing them the kind of grain and this the stock that they require he says to them because obviously in conversation they acknowledge that they have another brother benjamin benjamin so he says that you know what bring me your brother like come to me again with him and you know can't you see that look how i not only have i given you what you i've given you extra like so he was very generous in giving them what they'd come for the stark and the grain and he says and if you don't bring him next time then don't bother

coming now what he does is he tells his own workers that when you're packing their goods pack the original grain and stock with their stuff so when they go back because obviously they're not planning on coming back till another year but when they go back and find that oh wow you know they accidentally have returned our original stock they're gonna be cunning to think well i know why don't we go and get get some more we can get it for free now so he says to his people joseph that you know what do this so when they go uh they will kind of come back now when they do go back to their

father they tell him um the interesting thing is they come back they kind of like according to some interpretations he didn't give them anything according to some he did actually give them but also sneaked in the original goods according to some he just sneaked in the original goods nevertheless my understanding is he actually was generous to them so when they go back they kind of think that i know let's go back now they say to their father that look

send benjamin with us because you know what we're gonna get double what we're going for so they convinced their father now this is the verse i want to come to verse 67 now he says my children my sons when you get to most people say it was at memphis uh which month is the old uh pharaoh on it kind of great city which is close to modern-day cairo it's not modern-day cairo but it's close to it and it's referred to as memphis or month in arabic

some people say it was memphis some people said it was the city of thebes um whichever it was but it was a great city and he says to them when you get there don't go in through one gate spread out now he says i cannot protect you from anything that god has destined for you if some harm is destined but this is my advice

you should have trust in god and then it mentions nothing it didn't save them from anything they did try the different doors but it didn't save them except illahajit it says except it was just something which their father it was like something that he gave him peace of mind but it didn't really do anything to help them okay so what was this talking about now so people will say this

is referring to the evil eye like uh you will see many of these mashai imam sahib webb uses that as a verse many people use this as a verse many mufasirin by the way have highlighted that that's not actually necessarily the case that it's to do with a samani mentions the other people mention it as well that this is to do with a plot that is for their safety now i want to ask you something if the and by the way that is why ibn ashur in his tafsir uh i thought i had it open here but i didn't in history if you check ibn ashur the great maliki legend he says

the same thing it was to prevent them from this plot it's the same thing which mawlana abdel karim al-athari mentions in istaff seed it was to save them it was a safeguarding thing because you would draw attention to you it was to kind of be as you know just you just kind of blend in as much as you can that was the whole purpose not this evil eye now if this was the evil eye i just want to ask you those people who said this was because of the evil eye allah hasn't mentioned it but they they're reading into the the reading between the lines if this was

the evil eye then i ask you something they why is it the evil eye they say because they were so beautiful the sons of jacob was so beautiful and amazing i don't know where they get that from but okay let's roll with it okay because there's nothing mentioned about them being so beautiful and amazing or i don't know okay there is about yusuf ali salaam joseph so maybe they're assuming the brothers were also very beautiful okay let's say they were they're incredibly handsome and charming and all this then hold on a minute

did you guys forget to read the verses just before it they've already been to egypt they've already been in the palace they've already met the king they've already asked for stocks and grains and they've already done this those people have already seen them this is not that would only make sense if this was the first time they were ever to enter this place they've already been and have returned and because they found their stock again they're thinking i know let's do a sly one let's go back again and pretend this is fresh stock and we can get it again

so you tell me what makes more sense if some people are about to try a sly one like if somebody came to your shop you've got a big shop and he comes and somehow he returns with his original let's say he somehow manages to scam something or un inadvertently he doesn't realize but you give him some extra but there are particular group let's say a whole family come and they're a whole family you remember them they you know all these bunch of brothers now they come and you happen to let's say accidentally put in their bags some extra suits let's say it's a clothes shop

and you've put some extra things in there now they've realized oh we've got some extra things we can actually get a refund for these things and we've made some free money would it make sense for them to come back as the whole group because you might actually remember and clock them you think oh actually i remember you guys you guys didn't even buy that i remember you guys only bought these things specifically would it not make sense to come kind of like dispersed or come just one of them to turn up and say hi hey i bought this and and that's what they were doing they were trying to be sly so yeah tells them you know what don't go

in together in a crowd split up because if you are gonna go then go like that because he's trying to obviously look out for them the evil eye makes no sense because one they've already been to egypt they've already seen the king and and the granaries and those the armies have already seen them secondly if it's because of their beauty how the hell do they land in memphis they're gonna walk through the roads are people not looking at them on the roads do does the evil eye only work at the gates of memphis

does nothing else you know is that only when the and does the evil eye how come it didn't work the first time but now it's going to work and by the way when you set the set off from kanan or whatever there's no evil eye all this way hundreds and hundreds of miles there's no evil eye even on the on the road to memphis there's no evil eye oh but once you approach the gate [Laughter] the the one eye is gonna be incredibly active right so this is the the thing that