In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
Surah Yusuf (nr.12) is one of the most beautiful chapters of the Quran. It has been revealed in it's entirety to prophet Muhammad during the year of sadness when his wife Khadija and his uncle Abu Talib died. One of the greatest lessons that this chapter taught me is beautiful patience.
"Beautiful Patience" said Yaqub, after he found out that his son Yusuf was eaten by the wolf according to his other jealous sons. And it was beautiful patience from there on for both him and Yusuf who were separated for the first time. Yaqub became blind and Yusuf was in a weal, sold, enslaved, almost molested by the wife of the Aziz, and then thrown in jail. But jail was more beloved to him than what the wife of the Aziz was inviting him to. She wanted to seduce him while he wanted to obey Allah. With beautiful patience he went to the dungeon and spend years in there. He never complained, and nor did Yaqub. Both knew that Allah swt was testing them and both got their reward in the end.
Thinking about this and trying to relate it to myself and others, how long does it take till our bubble is burst? We get mad at any trial or hardship that comes our way, and we complain for the lamest things. So where is our beautiful patience? Anyone who cuts us off on the road, we are ready to go crazy on him. Any money that we loose or when our car brakes down, causes us so much pain an agony. Why? Because we are attached to this world while Yusuf loved the dungeon more than this world and the beauty of the woman who was seducing him. What would you have done in Yusuf's place, if a beautiful woman of high status would have invited you to her bed? How about more than one? Would you have kept your beautiful patience?
Allah can test us with anything He wills, and we have to have patience. The reward and relief will come. Maybe not right away such as in the case of Yusuf and Yaqub, but it will come, if not in this life than in the hear after. We ask Allah swt to give us beautiful patience.
And Allah knows best
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