CHAPTER 12.  JOSEPH                                                                         SECTION 1.  PART XII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE SEER 
THESE ARE VERSES OF THE BOOK THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

2  WE HAVE REVEALED AN ARABIC QURAN TO YOU
IN ORDER THAT WISDOM MAY BE LEARNED BY YOU

3  WE RELATE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF STORIES TO YOU
IN THAT WE NARRATE TO YOU
THIS PORTION OF THE QURAN TO YOU
WHICH BEFORE WAS NOT KNOWN TO YOU

4  JOSEPH SAID TO HIS FATHER, I SAW IN A VISION 
ELEVEN STARS AND THE MOON AND THE SUN 
ALL BOW DOWN TO ME IN SUBMISSION   

5  THE FATHER SAID, MY DEAR LITTLE SON
DO NOT TELL YOUR BROTHERS YOUR VISION

OR THEY WILL DEVISE AGAINST YOU A PLAN
FOR THE DEVIL IS AN OPEN ENEMY TO MAN

6  FOR BY YOUR LORD YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN
HE WILL TEACH YOU THE INTERPRETATIONS 
OF STORIES, DREAMS AND VISIONS 

AND PERFECT HIS FAVOR TO YOU
AND TO MY DESCENDANTS THROUGH YOU 
AS HE PERFECTED IT TO YOUR FORE-FATHERS BEFORE YOU

ABRAHAM AND ISAAC PREVIOUSLY
FOR ALL KNOWING AND ALL WISE IS HE

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7  IN THE STORY OF JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS
ARE LESSONS FOR TRUTH SEEKERS

8  A PRIVATE MEETING WAS HELD BY JOSEPH'S BROTHERS
THEY SAID, SURELY JOSEPH AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHER
ARE REALLY LOVED MORE THAN WE BY OUR FATHER
BUT WE ARE A GROUP BOUND STRONGLY TOGETHER
OUR FATHER IS OBVIOUSLY IN MANIFEST ERROR

9  LET US KILL JOSEPH OR BANISH HIM TO SOME UNKNOWN TERRITORY
SO THAT OUR FATHER'S FAVORS MAY BE GIVEN TO US EXCLUSIVELY
AFTER THAT WE CAN BEHAVE RIGHTEOUSLY

10  ONE OF THEM SAID, IT IS NOT RIGHT THAT WE SHOULD KILL HIM 
INSTEAD LET US TAKE HIM TO A WELL AND INTO IT THROW HIM 
A CARAVAN OF TRAVELERS MAY COME BY AND FIND HIM

11  SO THEY SAID TO THEIR FATHER 
WHY DO YOU NOT TRUST US WITH JOSEPH OUR BROTHER
DO YOU NOT SEE THAT WE ARE HIS SINCERE WELL WISHERS?

12  SEND HIM WITH US TOMORROW TO ENJOY HIMSELF AND PLAY
AND WE WILL SURELY GUARD HIM WELL ALL DAY

13  JACOB SAID, IT GRIEVES ME THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE HIM
I AM AFRAID THAT THE WOLF WILL EAT HIM
WHILE YOU ARE NOT ATTENDING TO HIM

14  THEY SAID, IF THE WOLF WERE TO EAT HIM UP WHILE WE
ARE INDEED SUCH A LARGE AND A STRONG COMPANY
THEN WE WOULD FIRST HAVE PERISHED SURELY

15  SO THEY DID TAKE HIM 
AND THEY ALL AGREED TO THROW HIM
INTO THE WELL AND WE REVEALED THIS MESSAGE TO HIM

ONE DAY YOU WILL TELL THEM 
ABOUT THIS WHILE YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THEM
BUT YOU WILL NOT THEN BE RECOGNIZED BY THEM 

16  AND THEY CAME TO THEIR FATHER CRYING
IN THE EARLY PART OF THE NIGHT SAYING

17  OH OUR FATHER, WE WENT RACING
WITH ONE ANOTHER AND LEFT JOSEPH WITH OUR THINGS
AND THE WOLF ATE HIM UP WHILE WE WERE NOT WATCHING
BUT YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE US THOUGH ITS TRUE WHAT WE ARE SAYING

18  AND WITH FALSE BLOOD STAINED ON HIS COAT THEY CAME LYING
JACOB SAID, YOU HAVE MADE UP A LIE TO COVER YOUR DOINGS
BUT FOR ME PATIENCE IS BEST AND MOST FITTING
IT IS GOD WHOSE HELP THAT I AM SEEKING
INSTEAD OF BELIEVING WHAT YOU ARE SAYING

19  THEN THERE CAME A CARAVAN OF TRAVELERS
AND THEY DID SEND THEIR WATER CARRIER FOR WATER
HE LET HIS BUCKET DOWN INTO THE WELL THEN UTTERED
THERE IS A MAN DOWN HERE INSTEAD OF WATER
THEY THEN CONCEALED HIM AS A TREASURE
AND OF WHAT THEY DID GOD WAS AWARE

20  THE BROTHERS SOLD HIM FOR A FEW PIECES OF SILVER
IN SUCH LOW ESTIMATION DID THEY HOLD THEIR BROTHER

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CHAPTER 12.  JOSEPH                                                                         SECTION 3.  PART XII

21  THE MAN IN EGYPT WHO BOUGHT THE RIGHTEOUS ONE 
SAID TO HIS WIFE, LET US TREAT HIM WITH COMPASSION
AND MAKE HIS STAY AMONG US AN HONORABLE ONE
HE MAY BE USEFUL, WE MAY ADOPT HIM AS A SON
THIS ACCORDING TO GOD'S PLAN WAS DONE
AND WAS HOW HE ESTABLISHED JOSEPH IN THE KINGDOM
THAT HE MIGHT TEACH HIM THE INTERPRETATIONS
OF STORIES AND OF DREAMS AND VISIONS
FOR GOD HAS FULL POWER OVER ALL CREATION
BUT MOST MEN ARE UNAWARE OF THIS REALIZATION

22  WE GAVE JOSEPH WISDOM AND POWER 
WHEN HE GREW AND BECAME FULLY MATURED  
FOR THIS IS HOW WE REWARD RIGHTEOUS DOERS

23  BUT SHE IN WHOSE HOUSE HE WAS TRIED TO SEDUCE HIM
AND SO SHE FASTENED THE DOORS BEHIND HIM
AND THEN SAID, COME HERE, TO HIM

JOSEPH SAID, YOUR HUSBAND HAS BEEN KIND TO ME
AND NO GOOD COMES TO THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

24  BUT FOR HIM SHE HAD A PASSIONATE DESIRE
AND HE WOULD SURELY HAVE INCLINED TO HER DESIRE
HAD HE NOT ALREADY SEEN EVIDENCE OF HIS LORD'S POWER

THIS WAS DONE ACCORDING TO OUR DECREE
THAT WE MIGHT TURN AWAY FROM JOSEPH ALL INDECENCY
FOR HE WAS ONE OF OUR SERVANTS TRULY
ONE OF PURITY AND SINCERITY

25  SO THEY BOTH RACED EACH OTHER TO THE DOOR
HIS COAT FROM BEHIND SHE REACHED AND TORE
THEY BOTH MET HER HUSBAND AT THE DOOR

SHE SAID, WHAT IS THE PUNISHMENT
FOR ONE WHO HAS FOR YOUR WIFE AN EVIL INTENT
BUT IMPRISONMENT OR A REAL PAINFUL CHASTISEMENT?

26  JOSEPH SAID, IT WAS SHE WHO TRIED TO SEDUCE ME
ONE OF HER FAMILY SAW ALL OF THIS TOTALLY
AND SHE BORE WITNESS WITH THIS AS TESTIMONY
IF HIS COAT IS TORN FROM THE FRONT THEN SHE
IS TELLING THE TRUTH AND THE LIAR IS HE 

27  BUT IF IT BE 
THAT HIS COAT IS TORN FROM THE BACK, THEN HE 
IS INDEED TELLING THE TRUTH AND THE REAL LIAR IS SHE

28  HER HUSBAND SAW HIS COAT TORN FROM THE BACK CLEARLY
HE SAID, THIS PLOT IS YOURS WOMAN AND YOUR PLOT IS MIGHTY

29  THEN HER HUSBAND SAID, OH JOSEPH, PASS OVER THIS
AND MY WIFE, YOU ARE THE ONE AT FAULT SO BEG FORGIVENESS

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30  SAID SOME OF THE WOMEN IN THE CITY WHO WERE GOSSIPERS
THE CHIEF'S WIFE IS TRYING TO SEDUCE A SLAVE OF HERS
WITH PASSIONATE LOVE HE HAS INSPIRED HER
TRULY IN MANIFEST ERROR DO WE SEE HER

31 WHEN SHE HEARD OF THEIR TALK SHE SENT FOR THEM
AND PREPARED A BANQUET FOR THEM
THEN SHE GAVE A KNIFE TO EACH OF THEM
THEN SAID TO JOSEPH, COME OUT BEFORE THEM

AND WHEN THEY SAW HIM THEY WERE SO AMAZED AT HIM
THEY CUT THEIR HANDS INSTEAD OF THEIR FOOD WHILE LOOKING AT HIM

THEY SAID, BY GOD, THIS IS NO MORTAL
THIS IS NOTHING LESS THAN A NOBLE ANGEL

32  THE CHIEF'S WIFE SAID, THERE YOU SEE
THE MAN ABOUT WHOM YOU DID BLAME ME
I CERTAINLY DID TRY TO SEDUCE HIM BUT HE
DID HOLD HIMSELF FIRMLY AND GUILTLESSLY
NOW IF HE DOES NOT WHAT I BID HIM HE WILL SURELY
BE THROWN INTO PRISON AND BE OF THE WORST COMPANY

33  JOSEPH PRAYED, OH MY LORD, THE PRISON IS DEARER TO ME
THAN THAT TO WHICH THEY DO INVITE ME
BUT UNLESS YOU TURN AWAY THEIR SNARE FROM ME
I WILL IN MY YOUTHFUL FOLLY 
INCLINE TO LEAN TOWARDS THEM AND BE
AMONG THOSE WHO DO BEHAVE IGNORANTLY

34  SO HIS LORD HEARD HIS PRAYER
AND TURNED AWAY FROM HIM THEIR SNARE
FOR SURELY OF ALL THINGS HE IS FULLY AWARE

35  BUT THE MEN, AFTER THEY HAD SEEN THE SIGNS 
THOUGHT IT BEST TO IMPRISON JOSEPH FOR A TIME

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36  NOW WITH HIM THERE CAME TWO YOUNG MEN INTO THE PRISON 
ONE OF THEM SAID, I SAW  MYSELF POURING WINE IN A VISION
THE OTHER SAID, I SAW MYSELF WITH BIRDS IN A VISION
EATING BREAD OFF OF MY HEAD, TELL US ITS INTERPRETATION
FOR WE SEE YOU TO BE A MAN OF TRUTH AND VISION

37  HE SAID BEFORE YOUR NEXT MEAL COMES FOR CONSUMPTION
I WILL TELL YOU THE MEANING OF IT BEFORE IT HAPPENS 
THIS IS WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN ME OF INSTRUCTION
AND I ASSURE YOU I HAVE ABANDONED 
THE WAYS OF THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION
OF GOD'S REVELATIONS AND DENY THE RESSURECTION

38  I FOLLOW THE WAYS OF MY FORE-FATHERS
ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB AND NEVER
WOULD WE WORSHIP ANYTHING OTHER
THAN THE ONE TRUE GOD EVER
THIS COMES TO US FROM THE GRACE OF THE CREATOR
BUT MOST AMONG MEN ARE NOT GRATEFUL TO THEIR MAKER

39  MY TWO FELLOW PRISONERS
IS WORSHIPPING MANY GODS BETTER
THAN WORSHIPPING THE ONE SUPREME CREATOR?

40  BESIDES HIM NOTHING BUT NAMES DO YOU SERVE
NAMES WHICH HAVE BEEN NAMED BY YOU AND YOUR FATHERS 
FOR WHICH NO AUTHORITY HAS BEEN SENT DOWN BY THE CREATOR
JUDGMENT IS FOR NONE BUT YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
THAT YOU WORSHIP NO ONE BUT HIM IS CLEARLY HIS ORDER
THAT IS THE RIGHT RELIGION, BUT MOST MEN ARE DISBELIEVERS

41 MY TWO FELLOW PRISONERS
ONE OF YOU WILL POUR THE KING'S WINE AND THE OTHER
YOU WILL BE CRUCIFIED ON THE CROSS AND FURTHER
THE BIRDS WILL EAT THE EYES OUT OF YOUR HEAD THEREAFTER
THIS IS THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER OF WHICH YOU BOTH DID INQUIRE

42  AND TO THE ONE WHOM HE KNEW
WOULD BE DELIVERED OF THE TWO

HE SAID TO HIM, REMEMBER TO MENTION ME TO THE KING
BUT THE DEVIL MADE HIM TO FORGET MENTIONING
SO JOSEPH STAYED IN THE PRISON REMAINING
A FEW MORE YEARS LINGERING

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CHAPTER 12.  JOSEPH                                                                         SECTION 6.  PART XII

43  THE KING OF EGYPT SAID, IN A DREAM I HAVE SEEN
SEVEN FAT COWS EATEN BY SEVEN OTHERS THAT ARE LEAN
AND SEVEN WITHERED EARS OF CORN AND SEVEN THAT ARE GREEN
OH YOU CHIEFS, EXPLAIN MY DREAM TO ME AND TELL ME WHAT IT MEANS

44  THEY SAID IT IS A CONFUSED MEDLEY OF DREAMS AND VISIONS
AND WE ARE NOT SKILLED IN THE INTERPRETATIONS 
OF STORIES AND DREAMS AND VISIONS

45  THE MAN WHO WAS RELEASED OF THE TWO FROM THE PRISON
SAID TO THE KING, I WILL TELL YOU ITS INTERPRETATION
BUT SEND ME OVER TO THE PRISON

46  HE SAID TO JOSEPH, OH MAN OF TRUTH, TELL ME WHAT IT MEANS
SEVEN FAT COWS EATEN BY SEVEN OTHERS THAT ARE LEAN
AND SEVEN WITHERED EARS OF CORN AND SEVEN THAT ARE GREEN
SO I MAY GO BACK AND TELL THE PEOPLE WHAT IT MEANS

47  HE SAID, FOR SEVEN YEARS YOUR HARVESTS YOU WILL REAP
BUT SAVE IT EXCEPT FOR THE LITTLE WHICH YOU WILL  EAT

48  THEN THERE WILL COME AFTER THAT SEVEN
DREADFUL YEARS OF FAMINE

THAT WILL EAT AWAY ALL THAT YOU HAVE STORED AWAY
EXCEPT A LITTLE THAT YOU WILL HAVE ESPECIALLY PUT AWAY

49  THEN THERE WILL COME A YEAR AFTER
IN WHICH THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE ABUNDANT WATER
AND IN WHICH THEY WILL AGAIN POUR 
WINE AND OIL AS THEY DID BEFORE

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CHAPTER 12.  JOSEPH                                                                         SECTION 7.  PART XII

50  BRING HIM TO ME, SAID THE KING
BUT WHEN THE MESSENGER OF THE KING
CAME TO HIM JOSEPH SAID, GO BACK TO THE KING

AND ASK HIM ABOUT THE WOMEN WHO CUT THEIR HANDS
FOR MY LORD IS WELL AWARE OF THEIR PLANS

51  WHAT WAS YOUR AFFAIR,  THE KING SAID TO THE WOMEN
WHEN YOU TRIED TO SEDUCE JOSEPH?  THEN SAID THE WOMEN

BY GOD, HIS WIFE SAID, NOW THE TRUTH IS MANIFEST TO ALL

YES IT WAS ME WHO TRIED TO SEDUCE HIM BUT HE
HELD HIMSELF FIRMLY AND VIRTUOUSLY

52  I SAY THIS SO THAT HE 
MAY KNOW THAT IN HIS ABSENCE I HAVE NOT BEHAVED FALSELY
AND ASSUREDLY GOD DOES NOT GUIDE THOSE WHO BEHAVE FALSELY

PART XIII

53  NOR DO I HOLD MYSELF BLAMELESSLY
FOR THE HUMAN SOUL IS CERTAINLY 
PRONE TO ACT UNRIGHTEOUSLY
EXCEPT FOR THOSE UPON WHOM GOD BESTOWS MERCY
AND GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

54  SO THE KING SAID, BRING HIM TO ME
I WILL CHOOSE HIM TO SERVE ME PERSONALLY
THE KING SAID TO JOSEPH, TODAY YOU ARE HONORABLY
RESTORED INTO OUR PRESENCE WITH DIGNITY

55  JOSEPH SAID, THEN PLACE ME OVER THE TREASURES OF THE LAND
AND I WILL GUARD THEM AS ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS

56  THIS WAS HOW WE GAVE POWER TO JOSEPH IN THE LAND
HE HAD MASTERY OVER IT AT HIS COMMAND

WE BESTOW OUR MERCY UPON WHOMEVER WE LIKE
AND NEVER DO WE WASTE THE REWARD OF THOSE WHO DO RIGHT

57  AND THE REWARD OF HEREAFTER IS EVEN BETTER
FOR THOSE WHO DO GOOD AND ARE TRUE BELIEVERS 

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CHAPTER 12.  JOSEPH                                                                       SECTION 8.  PART XIII

58  THEN JOSEPH'S BROTHERS CAME TO HIM
AND HE RECOGNIZED THEM BUT THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM

59  AND WHEN HE HAD FURNISHED THEM
WITH SUITABLE PROVISIONS HE SAID TO THEM

BRING TO ME THAT YOUNGER BROTHER
THAT YOU HAVE FROM YOUR FATHER
DO YOU SEE I PAY FULL MEASURE
AND THAT I AM A GOOD HOSPITALITY PROVIDER?

60  BUT NOW IF YOU DO NOT BRING HIM TO ME
YOU WILL GET NO MORE GRAIN FROM ME
NOR WILL YOU EVEN COME NEAR ME

61  THEY SAID, WE WILL TRY TO GET HIM FROM HIS FATHER	 
AND WE WILL BE ABLE TO DO IT FOR SURE 

62  JOSEPH TOLD HIS SERVANTS TO SECRETLY
HIDE BACK INTO THEIR SADDLE BAGS THEIR MONEY
SO THEY WOULD FIND IT WHEN THEY RETURNED TO THEIR FAMILY
IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT COME BACK ASSUREDLY

63  WHEN THEY RETURNED TO THEIR FATHER
THEY SAID, OH OUR FATHER, NO MORE MEASURE
OF GRAIN WILL WE GET UNLESS WE TAKE OUR YOUNGER BROTHER
SEND HIM WITH US SO THAT WE CAN GET OUR FULL MEASURE
AND WE WILL SURELY GUARD HIM AS A TREASURE

64  HE SAID, SHOULD I TRUST HIM WITH YOU TO ANY RESULT OTHER
THAN WHEN I TRUSTED YOU BEFORE WITH JOSEPH HIS BROTHER

GOD IS THE BEST TO TAKE CARE OF HIM SURELY
AND GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL OF THOSE WHO SHOW MERCY

65  WHEN THEY LOOKED INTO THEIR BAGGAGE AND FOUND THEIR MONEY
RETURNED TO THEM THEY SAID, OH FATHER, COME LOOK AND SEE
THEY HAVE GRACIOUSLY RETURNED TO US OUR MONEY
NOW WE CAN GET MORE GRAIN FOR OUR FAMILY
AND WE WILL GUARD OUR BROTHER SAFELY
AND ADD A CAMEL'S LOAD OF GRAIN TO OUR PROVISIONS EASILY
THIS IS BUT A SMALL QUANTITY

66  JACOB SAID, I WILL ONLY SEND HIM WITH YOU IF YOU GIVE TO ME
A PROMISE IN GOD'S NAME THAT YOU WILL BRING HIM BACK TO ME
UNLESS YOU ARE YOURSELVES HEMMED IN HELPLESSLY

AND AFTER THEY HAD GIVEN HIM THEIR SINCERE PROMISE
HE SAID, OVER ALL THAT WE SAY GOD IS THE WITNESS

67  MY SONS, DO NOT ENTER ALL OF YOU BY THE SAME GATE TOGETHER
YOU MUST ALL FIND DIFFERENT GATES FOR EACH OF YOU TO ENTER 
NOT THAT I CAN ADVISE YOU AGAINST THE PLAN OF THE CREATOR
FOR NONE CAN COMMAND EXCEPT OUR LORD AND CHERISHER
AND I  PUT ALL MY TRUST IN GOD, OUR LORD AND SUSTAINER
AND LET ALL WHO TRUST PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEIR MAKER

68  WHEN THEY ENTERED ACCORDING TO THEIR FATHER'S INSTRUCTION
IT DID NOT PROFIT THEM IN THE LEAST AGAINST GOD'S ORCHESTRATION
IT WAS A DESIRE OF JACOB'S IN WHICH HE OBTAINED SATISFACTION
FOR HE WAS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE BY GOD'S INSTRUCTION
BUT MOST MEN ARE UNAWARE OF THIS REALIZATION

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CHAPTER 12.  JOSEPH                                                                       SECTION 9.  PART XIII

69  AND WHEN THEY CAME TO JOSEPH, UPON ENTERING
HE RECEIVED HIS YOUNGER BROTHER TO STAY WITH HIM SAYING
I AM YOUR OWN BROTHER JOSEPH, SO GRIEVE NOT AT THEIR DOINGS

70  WHEN HE HAD FURNISHED THEM WITH PROVISIONS SUITABLY 
HE HID THE KING'S DRINKING CUP INTO HIS BROTHER'S BAG SECRETLY

THEN SOMEONE SHOUTED OUT 
OH YOU IN THE CARAVAN, YOU ARE THIEVES WITHOUT DOUBT

71  THEY SAID, WHAT DO YOU FIND YOURSELVES WITHOUT?

72  HE SAID, WE MISS THE DRINKING CUP OF THE KING
AND I WILL GIVE A REWARD FOR ITS RETURNING

73  THE BROTHERS SAID, SURELY YOU DO NOT BELIEVE
THAT WE CAME TO MAKE MISCHIEF AND WE ARE NOT THIEVES

74  THE EGYPTIANS SAID, THEN WHAT WILL BE
IF YOU ARE PROVEN TO HAVE LIED, THE PENALTY?

75  THEY SAID, THE PENALTY FAIRLY SHOULD BE  
THAT HE IN WHOSE BAGGAGE IT IS RETRIEVED
THAT HE SHOULD BE HELD IN SLAVERY
THIS IS HOW WE PUNISH THE GUILTY

76  HE BEGAN SEARCHING THEIR BAGGAGE ONE AFTER ANOTHER
EVENTUALLY HE BROUGHT IT OUT OF THE BAGGAGE OF HIS BROTHER
THIS WE PLANNED FOR JOSEPH FOR HE COULD NOT TAKE HIS BROTHER
UNDER THE KINGS LAW EXCEPT AS GOD ORDERED
WE RAISE IN DEGREES OF WISDOM THOSE WHOM WE DESIRE
BUT OVER THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE, GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

77  THE BROTHERS SAID, IF HE IS A THIEF
THERE WAS A BROTHER OF HIS BEFORE WHO WAS ALSO A THIEF

BUT THESE THINGS JOSEPH KEPT LOCKED IN HIS HEART FROM THEM
AND HE DID NOT REVEAL THE SECRETS TO THEM

HE SAID TO HIMSELF, THESE MEN ARE IN AN EVIL CONDITION
AND GOD KNOWS BEST THE TRUTH OF THEIR ASSERTIONS

78  THEY SAID TO HIM, OH MIGHTY CHIEF
HE HAS A FATHER WHO IS OLD WHO WILL BE FILLED WITH GRIEF

SO TAKE ONE OF US IN HIS PLACE
FOR WE SEE YOU ARE ONE WHO IS FULL OF GRACE

79  HE SAID, IF WE TOOK OTHER THAN HE
WITH WHOM WE FOUND OUR PROPERTY
WE WOULD BE ACTING WRONGFULLY

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80  NOW WHEN THEY SAW NO HOPE OF HIS YIELDING
THEY HELD TOGETHER A PRIVATE MEETING

THE LEADER AMONG THEM SAID, DO YOU REALIZE THAT WE
MADE A PROMISE TO OUR FATHER IN GOD'S NAME SINCERELY
AND BEFORE THIS HOW WE FAILED WITH JOSEPH IN OUR DUTY?
SO I WILL NOT LEAVE THIS LAND UNTIL MY FATHER PERMITS ME
OR UNLESS GOD MAKES A WAY FOR ME
AND GOD IS THE BEST TO MAKE A WAY FOR ME

81  OH MY BROTHERS
GO AND TELL WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR FATHER
WHEN THEY RETURNED HOME THEY SAID, OH OUR FATHER
YOUR SON, OUR YOUNGER BROTHER

IS BEING HELD AS A THIEF IN SLAVERY
AND WE COULD NOT GUARD AGAINST WHAT WE COULD NOT FORESEE

82  ASK AT THE TOWN WHERE WE WERE VISITING
AND OF THE CARAVAN IN WHICH WE ARE RETURNING
AND YOU WILL FIND THAT IT IS TRUE WHAT WE ARE SAYING

83  HE SAID, YOU HAVE CONTRIVED A STORY
GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU BUT NOT FOR ME
IT IS BETTER FOR ME TO BEAR PATIENTLY 
MAYBE IN THE END GOD WILL BRING THEM ALL BACK TO ME
FOR SURELY FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS HE

84  AND HE TURNED AWAY FROM THEM AND SAID, I MISS JOSEPH TERRIBLY
AND HIS EYES WERE FILLED WITH TEARS ON ACCOUNT OF THE GRIEF
AND HE FELL INTO A SILENT MELANCHOLY

85  THEY SAID, OH OUR FATHER, SURELY YOU
WILL NEVER CEASE TO REMEMBER JOSEPH UNTIL YOU
EITHER GET SICK OR UNTIL DEATH MAKES AN END OF YOU

86  HE SAID, TO GOD ALONE DO I COMPLAIN OF MY SORROW 
AND I KNOW FROM GOD THAT WHICH YOU DO NOT KNOW

87  OH MY SONS, GO BACK AND INQUIRE
ABOUT JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHER

AND DO NOT EVER GIVE UP HOPE OF MERCY FROM GOD
FOR NO ONE GIVES UP HOPE OF MERCY FROM GOD
EXCEPT PEOPLE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD

88  WHEN THEY CAME TO JOSEPH THEY SAID, OH MIGHTY CHIEF
DISTRESS HAS INDEED AFFLICTED OUR FAMILY WITH GRIEF
AND SO WE HAVE NOW BROUGHT JUST A LITTLE MONEY
BUT GIVE US FULL MEASURE AND TREAT IT AS CHARITY
FOR GOD LOVES THOSE WHO DO DEEDS OF CHARITY

89  HE SAID, DO YOU REMEMBER
HOW YOU TREATED JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHER
WHEN YOU WERE IGNORANT AND WRONGDOERS?

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90  THEY SAID, ARE YOU JOSEPH?
HE ANSWERED SAYING, YES, I AM JOSEPH 
AND THIS IS MY BROTHER AND TO US GOD HAS BEEN GRACIOUS
AND SURELY GOD NEVER WASTES THE REWARD OF THE RIGHTEOUS

91  THEY SAID, GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU OVER US SURELY
AND WE HAVE BEEN SINNERS CERTAINLY

92  JOSEPH SAID, NO REPROACH AGAINST YOU LET THERE BE 
PERHAPS GOD WILL FORGIVE YOU AND GOD IS SURELY
THE MOST MERCIFUL OF THOSE WHO SHOW MERCY

93  TAKE THIS MY COAT FROM ME
SHOW IT TO MY FATHER AND HE WILL COME TO SEE CLEARLY
THEN COME BACK HERE TO ME TOGETHER WITH ALL OF YOUR FAMILY

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94  AS THE CARAVAN WAS LEAVING EGYPT FROM A DISTANCE
JACOB SAID, I SOMEHOW SENSE JOSEPH'S PRESENCE
DO NOT THINK THAT I AM LOSING MY SENSES

95  THOSE WHO WERE AT HOME AROUND HIM SAID
YOU HAVE WANDERED OUT OF YOUR OLD HEAD

96  WHEN THE BEARER OF THE GOOD NEWS CAME LATER THAT NIGHT
HE SHOWED JACOB THE COAT AND HE REGAINED CLEAR SIGHT

HE SAID, DID I NOT TELL YOU THAT I KNOW
FROM GOD THAT WHICH YOU DO NOT KNOW?

97  THEY SAID, ASK FORGIVENESS FOR OUR SINS, OUR FATHER
FOR CERTAINLY WE HAVE BEEN SINNERS

98  HE SAID, I WILL ASK GOD FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS
FOR HE IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

99  AND WHEN THEY ENTERED INTO JOSEPH'S PRESENCE
HE PROVIDED A HOME WITH HIMSELF FOR HIS PARENTS
AND HE SAID, ENTER EGYPT WITH GOD'S ASSURANCE

100  AND HE RAISED HIS PARENTS HIGH ON THE THRONE OF HONOR
AND THE ELEVEN BROTHERS AND THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER

ALL BOWED DOWN BEFORE HIM IN SUBMISSION
HE SAID, MY FATHER, THIS IS THE FULFILLMENT OF MY OLD VISION
GOD HAS BROUGHT IT INTO REALIZATION
HE WAS KIND TO ME WHEN HE BROUGHT ME OUT OF PRISON

AND BROUGHT YOU ALL HERE TOGETHER OUT OF THE DESERT SAFELY
AFTER SATAN HAD SOWN ENMITY BETWEEN MY BROTHERS AND ME
SURELY GOD UNDERSTANDS BEST THE MYSTERIES
OF ALL THAT HE PLANS TO DO, FOR SURELY
FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS HE

101  THEN JOSEPH PRAYED, OH MY LORD, TO ME YOU HAVE GIVEN  
SOME POWER AND TAUGHT ME THE INTERPRETATIONS 
OF STORIES AND DREAMS AND VISIONS

OH MIGHTY ORIGINATOR OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
YOU ARE MY PROTECTOR IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE HEREAFTER
TAKE MY SOUL AT DEATH AS ONE OF THE SUBMITTERS
AND UNITE ME WITH THE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS

102  THIS IS ONE OF THE ANNOUNCEMENTS
RELATING TO UNSEEN EVENTS
WHICH WE REVEAL TO YOU BY INSPIRATION
YOU WERE NOT AMONG THEM DURING THEIR CONCERTIONS
OF THEIR PLANS AND IN THE DEVISINGS OF THEIR MACHINATIONS

103  AND MOST MEN WILL NOT BE BELIEVERS
THOUGH IT MAY BE YOUR EAGER DESIRES

104  AND NO REWARD FOR IT DO YOU ASK OF THE PEOPLE
IT IS NO LESS THAN A MESSAGE FOR ALL PEOPLE

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105  AND HOW MANY LESSONS
IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
DO MEN PASS BY THEM IN REJECTION?

106  AND MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE NOT IN GOD
WITHOUT ASSOCIATING OTHERS WITH GOD

107  DO THEY THEN FEEL SECURE FROM THE COMING 
TO THEM OF A CHASTISEMENT FROM GOD OR THE COMING 
OF THE FINAL HOUR OF DEATH WHILE THEY ARE NOT PERCEIVING?

108  SAY, I INVITE YOU ON CLEAR EVIDENCE TO GOD
I AND THOSE WITH ME AND GLORY TO GOD
AND I AM NOT ONE WHO JOINS GOD'S WITH GOD

109  NOR DID EVER BEFORE GOD SEND WITH REVELATIONS
ANYTHING BUT MEN TO WHOM HE GAVE INSPIRATION
MEN LIVING IN HUMAN HABITATIONS
FROM THE TOWNS OF THE PEOPLE TO WHOM HE SENT REVELATION
HAVE YOU NOT TRAVELED THROUGH THE EARTH AND ITS REGIONS
AND SEEN WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE BEFORE REJECTION?
BUT THE REWARD OF THE HEREAFTER IS BEST FOR BELIEVING ONES
WILL MAN NOT THEN GAIN COMPREHENSION?

110  MORE TIME IS GIVEN TO PEOPLE
UNTIL THE MESSENGERS GIVE UP HOPE FOR THEIR PEOPLE
AND FEEL THEY HAVE BEEN TREATED AS LIARS BY THEIR PEOPLE

THEN OUR HELP REACHES THEM AND THOSE WHOM WE PLEASE 
ARE DELIVERED INTO SAFETY, BUT NEVER WILL THE PENALTY
BE WARDED OFF FROM THOSE WHO ARE GUILTY

111  IN THE HISTORIES OF THE PROPHETS THERE ARE INSTRUCTIONS
FOR SEEKERS AFTER TRUTH AND FOR MEN OF DISCRETION
THIS REVELATION IS NOT AN INVENTION
IT IS A CONFIRMATION OF FORMER REVELATIONS
AND A DETAILED EXPLANATION OF ALL THINGS IN CREATION
AND A MERCY  FOR THOSE WHO COME TO GOD IN SUBMISSION

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