Story of Prophet Yusuf (AS) Part-29

The Plan
The ten brothers came to the Chief of Egypt
(Yousif) and said to him: "Our father has
asked us to take care of Benyamin, and we
have promised him to do that."
Yousif ordered his workers to fill the
containers of his brothers with wheat. He
himself came to oversee their work. The
workers were busy filling the containers with
wheat. The ten brothers were busy preparing
their camels.
Yousif approached the camel of his brother
Benyamin He put an expesive silver cup in its
bag, and then he covered the cup with wheat.
Yousif made a plan to make his brother
Benyamin stay in Egypt.
The caravan headed for Palestine. In the
distance, the ten bothers heard a caller
saying: "Stop! You're thieves!"
The bothers were surprised except Benyamin,
for he had known the plan. All the brothers
came to the Egyptian guard and asked him:
"What have you missed?"
The guard replied: "We've missed the King's
drinking cup. Whoever brings it will have a
camel load."
The brothers swore by Allah that they had not
stolen anything. Then they said: "By Allah, you
know that we've come not to make mischief in
the land. We've come to buy wheat for our
farnily."
The guard asked: "We'll search your bags. If
we find a thief, how do we punish the thief?"
The ten brothers replied: "Thc thief is
enslaved."
"Well we'll search all your bags," the guard
explained.
Yousif himself came and searched their bags.
First he searched the bags of the ten brothers,
and then he searched Benyamin's bag. He put
his hand into the wheat bag and took out the
King's drinking cup.
All the brothers were surprised to see that. As
for Benyamin, he looked at the cup with
silence and sadness.
Yousif asked them: "Now what's your
opinion?"
Looking at Benyamin with anger, the ten
brothers answered: "His brother was also a
thief!"
Yousif was sad. He felt that his brothers were
still envying him and his brother Benyamin.
He felt that they were still bearing malice
against him and his brother.
Thus, he addressed them, saying: "You're in
an evil condition. Allah knows best what you
describe."
The eldest bother came to Yousif. He begged
him, saying: "His father is an old man. He
asked us to take care of his son Benyamin. So
enslave one of us instead of him."
Yousif said: "Allah forbid! We only take the
one with whom we've found our cup. If we take
other than him, then we're oppressive."
When the brothers were hopeless of taking
Benyamin with them, they held a meeting. In
the meeting they asked each other: "What
shall we do? What shall we say to our father"
Shall we tell him the truth?"
One of them answered: "Yes, we shall tell our
father the truth. We shall say to him that
Benyamin has stolen the King's drinking cup,
and that the Egyptians have enslaved him for
that."
The eldest brother asked: "Shall we go and
don't take Benyarmn with us? Hadn't we
promised our father to take care of him? Have
you forgotten what you'd done towards Yousif.
Don't you have mercy on our old father?"
Then he refused their suggestions, saying:
"No! No! I won't return to my father! I'll stay
in Egypt till my father permits me to return! As
for you, go back to your father and say to him:
" Father, your son Benyamin has stolen the
King's drinking cup! We'd not known the
unseen. We'd not known that Benyamin had
been a thief!"
The brothers kept silent. They were eleven
brothers. The Chief of Egypt (Yousif) took
Benyamin. The eldest brother decided to stay
in Egypt. He refused to meet his father again,
for he had promised him to take care of
Benyamin.
The nine brothers went back to Palestine.
They returned to tell their father of what had
happened. Our Prophet Ya'qub bad been afraid
that people would envy his sons. So be had
ordered them to enter Egypt through different
gates. He had wanted them to enter Egypt
through different gates so that they might all
return safely. The nine brothers came carrying
sad news to their father.
The nine brothers came to Prophet Ya'qub and
said to him: "Father, your son Benyamin has
stolen the King's drinking cup. We've borne
witness of what we know."
Ya'qub kept silent. The nine brothers felt that
their father did not believe them. Thus they
said to him: "If you don't believe us, ask the
people who had been with us in Egypt."
Prophet Ya'qub took his rod, Then he rose and
said: "No, you have tempted yourselves.
Patience is good. I'll be patient again.
Perhaps Allah will return them all to me."
However Prophet Ya'qub was sad for what had
happened. He remembered Yousif, who
disappeared for twenty years.
He understood that what had happened to
Benyamin was related to what had happened
to Yousif. For this reason, he said: "My sorrow
is for Yousif!"
The nine brothers said to him: "You always
mention Yousif You'll die of your sadness for
him and your weeping over him."
Our Prophet Ya'qub said: "I complain of my
sadness to Allah. I know from Allah what you
don't know."
He kept silent for a while, and then he said to
his sons: "Sons, go! Go and look for Yousif
and his brother Benyamin. Don't be
hopeless.Only unbelievers are hopeless."