Al-Jalalayn

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

They said ‘By God truly God has preferred you over us with kingship and in other ways and indeed we wa-in in is softened in other words it is understood as innā ‘indeed we’ have been erring’ sinful towards you and treated you disgracefully.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

He said ‘There shall be no reproach no blame on you this day — he specifically mentions this day because it was the day when they expected to be reproached although any other day would have been more appropriate for them to be reproached on. God will forgive you and He is the Most Merciful of the merciful.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

He Joseph asked them about his father; and they told him that his eyesight had gone. And so he said Go with this shirt of mine — and this was the shirt of Abraham the one he wore when he was thrown into the fire; he Joseph had it around his neck when he was at the bottom of the well. It the shirt had come from Paradise Gabriel commanded him Joseph to send it off to Jacob saying that the scent of Paradise lingers in it and whenever it is cast upon a sufferer it heals him — and lay it on my father’s face and he will recover his sight; and bring me all your folk’.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

And as the caravan set forth leaving behind the palm fields of Egypt their father said to those of his sons and their children present ‘Truly I sense the scent of Joseph — which the east wind had brought to him with God’s permission across a distance of three or eight or more days’ journey; if only you did not think me doting’ if only you did not regard me as foolish you would believe me.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

They said to him ‘By God you are certainly in your misguidance your error of old’ in your excessive adoration of him and your enduring hope of encountering him again despite the length of time that has passed.