The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 260
PT. 13 لَكُمْ وَهُوَ اَرْحَمُ الرَّحِمِينَ CH. 12 YUSUF forgive you! And He is the Most Merciful of those who show 1592 mercy. اِذْهَبُوا بِقَمِيصِي هُذَا فَالْقَوْهُ عَلَى وَجْهِ Go with this shirt of mine. 94 أَبِي يَأْتِ بَصِيرًا ۚ وَأتُونِي بِأَهْلِكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ and lay it before my father: he will come to know. And bring to me the whole of your family. '1593 J. 1592. Important Words: (blame) is derived from They say, i. e. he stripped the beast of the fat covering the bowels; he stripped the man of his garment. means, removing the fat over the bowels; act of blaming or reproving or punishing for an offence or a crime; severe blaming or reproving that takes away brightness of countenance; reminding a man of his offences and crimes and exposing the foulness of his deeds to him (Lane). Commentary: The verse throws interesting light on the nobility of Joseph's character. He did not keep his brothers in suspense nor even give them time to crave his forgiveness, but at once removed all their fears and apprehensions as concerning the treatment he would now extend to Prophet. Like Joseph, the Holy Prophet, too, gained honour and power in flight and banishment; and when after years of exile he entered his native town as a conqueror, at the head of ten thousand Companions, and Mecca lay prostrate at his feet, he asked his people what treatment they that Joseph accorded to his brethren," expected from him. "The treatment they replied, "Then no reproach shall lie on you this day," promptly returned the Holy Prophet. This noble treatment by the Prophet of his erstwhile bloodthirsty enemies, the Quraish of Mecca, who had left no stone unturned to compass his death and destroy him root and branch stands unparalleled in the whole annals of human history. 1593. Important Words: a (before) gives a number of meanings, e. g. face; the part of a thing facing one; direction etc. , them; by telling them forthwith that his pardon was unreserved and unqualified. This magnanimous treatment of his brothers by Joseph is thing before or in front of him. alone sufficient to immortalize him. This large-hearted and generous forgiving of his brothers by Joseph constitutes his greatest and most outstanding resemblance to the Holy means, he put or placed the بصير will come to know يات بصيرا 1468 means, seeing; endowed with mental perception; knowing (Lane). Commentary: Joseph gave his brothers his shirt to