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Lessons from Surah Yusuf
by Yasir Qadhi
وَكَذَٰلِكَ مَكَّنَّا لِيُوسُفَ فِي الْأَرْضِ يَتَبَوَّأُ مِنْهَا حَيْثُ يَشَاءُ نُصِيبُ بِرَحْمَتِنَا مَن نَّشَاءُ وَلَا نُضِيعُ أَجْرَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ
And thus We established Joseph securely in the land [of Egypt]: he had full mastery over it, [doing] whatever he willed. [Thus do] We cause Our grace to alight upon whomever We will; and We do not fail to requite the doers of good.
[Qur’an, 12:56]
Divinely coined the “Best of All Stories”, Surah Yusuf was gifted to the Prophet ﷺ in Mecca after the “Year of Sorrow”, in which he experienced three traumatic events one after the other in the span of just 6 weeks:
1. Death of his first wife, Khadjiah (RA)
2. Death of his beloved uncle, Abu Talib
3. Rejection by the people of Ta’if
This surah is one of hope, revealed to bring peace to the Prophet ﷺ and to remind him the esteemed prophets of old also underwent fitna prior to emerging victorious. Prophet Yusuf is a figure familiar to us all, not least because of his direct noble lineage: from khalilullah patriarch Ibrahim to Ishaq father of the Israelites via his son Ya’qub [Isra’il] to the honourable Yusuf, who was one of the youngest of Ya’qub’s twelve children.
Ya’qub and his family resided in Canaan (Palestine/Syria) before Yusuf was sold into slavery in Egypt + his family later migrated.
Qadhi has done an excellent job amalgamating all the scholarly exegeses surrounding this surah and expounding on the story and it’s lessons in a way that is both overarching and detailed. I read this all in one sitting (as per the suggestion in the foreword), and was taken aback by the beautiful intricacies of this surah and how much I hadn’t picked up during my own readings. What I found particularly notable was Qadhi’s language breakdown as he highlighted and elaborated on salient words, phrases and grammatical factors that nonArabic speakers would miss. This adds an extra layer of depth to our understanding and encourages the reader to marvel at the breathtaking eloquence of Qur’anic terminology.
Qadhi also emphasises recurring themes and motifs throughout the surah (such as the shirt being a means of evidence-based salvation on several occasions). He ends by listing fifty lessons that can be taken away from this surah, as well as mentioning the ring composition theory by which the verses of surah yusuf from top to bottom exhibit miraculous parallel/concurrent splendour.
This was a terrific read and I highly encourage you all to get your hands on it (especially if this is your favourite surah).
jazak’Allah kheir @kubepublishing ❤️
وَكَذَٰلِكَ مَكَّنَّا لِيُوسُفَ فِي الْأَرْضِ يَتَبَوَّأُ مِنْهَا حَيْثُ يَشَاءُ نُصِيبُ بِرَحْمَتِنَا مَن نَّشَاءُ وَلَا نُضِيعُ أَجْرَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ
And thus We established Joseph securely in the land [of Egypt]: he had full mastery over it, [doing] whatever he willed. [Thus do] We cause Our grace to alight upon whomever We will; and We do not fail to requite the doers of good.
[Qur’an, 12:56]
Divinely coined the “Best of All Stories”, Surah Yusuf was gifted to the Prophet ﷺ in Mecca after the “Year of Sorrow”, in which he experienced three traumatic events one after the other in the span of just 6 weeks:
1. Death of his first wife, Khadjiah (RA)
2. Death of his beloved uncle, Abu Talib
3. Rejection by the people of Ta’if
This surah is one of hope, revealed to bring peace to the Prophet ﷺ and to remind him the esteemed prophets of old also underwent fitna prior to emerging victorious. Prophet Yusuf is a figure familiar to us all, not least because of his direct noble lineage: from khalilullah patriarch Ibrahim to Ishaq father of the Israelites via his son Ya’qub [Isra’il] to the honourable Yusuf, who was one of the youngest of Ya’qub’s twelve children.
Ya’qub and his family resided in Canaan (Palestine/Syria) before Yusuf was sold into slavery in Egypt + his family later migrated.
Qadhi has done an excellent job amalgamating all the scholarly exegeses surrounding this surah and expounding on the story and it’s lessons in a way that is both overarching and detailed. I read this all in one sitting (as per the suggestion in the foreword), and was taken aback by the beautiful intricacies of this surah and how much I hadn’t picked up during my own readings. What I found particularly notable was Qadhi’s language breakdown as he highlighted and elaborated on salient words, phrases and grammatical factors that nonArabic speakers would miss. This adds an extra layer of depth to our understanding and encourages the reader to marvel at the breathtaking eloquence of Qur’anic terminology.
Qadhi also emphasises recurring themes and motifs throughout the surah (such as the shirt being a means of evidence-based salvation on several occasions). He ends by listing fifty lessons that can be taken away from this surah, as well as mentioning the ring composition theory by which the verses of surah yusuf from top to bottom exhibit miraculous parallel/concurrent splendour.
This was a terrific read and I highly encourage you all to get your hands on it (especially if this is your favourite surah).
jazak’Allah kheir @kubepublishing ❤️