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Reflections from Surah Yusuf: Thread

1. Ask Allah, but leave the means to Him

Even if things look like theyre going wrong on the outside after we make duaa. Allah is in control. We don't know the full story. We don't know what's happening behind the scenes.

But all our failures along the way, allow us to grow into better forms of ourselves. The parts of your life that you wish you could erase are all part of God's plan. They were written into your story before you ever existed.

Through them, we realise Allah blessings over us - that He allows us to repent.

He could have taken the lives of Yusuf's brothers before they repented, but then that envy would still be in their hearts.

And the Prophet warned us that envy burns good deeds like fire burns wood. But Allah allowed them to turn back.

If any mothers over here feel like their kids are lost - Allah hears all your Duas! It might happen in a way that looks different than what you imagined.

But one day, when you least expect it, they'll turn back too and you'll realise this is Allah keeping His promise. The road to submission, to islam, for yusuf's brothers looked very different from that of yusuf.

But in the end, Allah gave Yaqoub what he wanted - that all his sons die as muslimeen.

[Al-Baqarah: 132]

And Ibrahim willed the same religion upon his sons, and also did Yaqub (Jacob); (saying), “O my sons – indeed Allah has chosen this religion for you; therefore do not die except as Muslims (those who submit to Him).”

2. Ask but don't rush. Be patient

Trust that it'll happen when it's meant to happen. As much as Yusuf wanted to go out in search of his family, Allah actually forbade him from doing so.

To us, that may sound weird or cruel, but if we think about what happened in hindsight, and what could have happened to Yusuf if he turned back, it makes a lot of sense.

We would all wish to wait if we realized how much harm there was in getting our duaas answered early!

In the case of Yusuf, instead of just reuniting him with his father, by waiting, Allah also designed his Qadr in a way where He could cure the evil in his brothers' hearts, and reunite Yusuf with them as well.

Sometimes we forget that our qadr will always be tied with those around us. Reuniting with Yaqub was certainly Yusuf's biggest desire, but in waiting, Yusuf was able to unite with his whole family.

If he had just found a way to go back 40 years early, the brothers could have killed Yusuf (considering they wanted to do that initially!), or simply denied it and said he was lying. They had power over him.

But look at how Allah designed his qadr. Remember the brothers didn't initially know the Aziz was their brother. They walked into Yusuf's court, there was the whole plan with the golden cup and binyamin being taken

Allah specifically writes in the Quran that "Yusuf would not have been able to take Benyamin in Egypt the way he did except that Allah allowed it happen.

We raise in power whomever we will. And above every person of knowledge, is the One who is Most Knowing." In that, Yusuf's brothers witnessed Yusuf with power, and themselves powerless, and saw Allah's hand in that.

3. Ask the impossible of the Lord of the Impossible!

When he was trapped with the Aziz's wife, Yusuf probably thought there was only jail or falling into the sin. So naturally, he asked Allah for jail.

But when he later told Allah, "You left me in jail for a really long time ya Allah (40 years!)" Allah replied, "o Yusuf I only gave you what you asked, and had you asked to be saved from jail and the Aziz's wife, I'd have saved you."

Yusuf probably didn't realise that he was actually limiting himself by asking Allah for jail. Because as humans our knowledge is limited. Sometimes we don't fully internalise what it means to say Allah has power over everything and all that's impossible becomes possible with Him

But to demonstrate the miracles Allah performs when we call on Him with full yaqeen, there's a narration (authenticity is unknown but it's powerful nontheless!) that goes:

Yaqoub was crying in sujood one day over the loss of benyamin and because it triggered all his grief over yusuf. So he called out:

Oh Allah, will you not have mercy

Over my weakness

will you not have mercy

Over my gray hair

will you not have mercy

Over my old age

will you not have mercy

Over my humiliation

will you not have mercy

Over how in need I am of you

And the amount of yaqeen he had was so powerful that Allah replied:

By My honor and My majesty

By My power over My servants

And My position above My throne

If Yusuf was dead

I'd have brought him back to life for you

So subhan'Allah always ask the impossible of Allah, for this "impossible" thing is completely at His command! When He says "be" it simply "is"!

Just make duaa, strive towards it and work hard, and inshaAllah it will be yours!

Umar radiallahu said: I just make Dua, I'm not worried about the answer. Because I know that if Allah guided me to make the duaa, then the answer will come with it.

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