Thursday, July 9, 2015

Yusuf- an amazing character

The story of prophet Yusuf(Joseph) is amazing. He gets abandoned and thrown in a well by his own brothers as a child. He's found by strangers who sell him as slave for cheap. He is bought by the king, where soon after the king's wife tries to seduce him. She fails so she puts him in prison, where he stays for years! When he's finally out and his innocence is known, and his brothers come to know who he is at the end of story, he tells the same brothers who caused all of this and threw him in the well to begin with: 
" لَا تَثْرِيبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْيَوْمَ يَغْفِرُ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ وَهُوَ أَرْحَمُ الرَّاحِمِينَ
"There is no blame on you this day, may Allah forgive you, and He is the Most Merciful of those who show mercy!"

Seriously! After all they did. "There is no blame on you". Wow. What a character and prophetic role model!