The Pharaoh of Egypt
called
Firawn had many
people
working for him.
One
of his assistants had
a
very wicked wife who
said
many things about
Yusuf
that were quite
untrue.
She thought
she
loved him but he
told
her that she should
honour
her husband.
She
became very angry
and
persuaded her
husband
to have Yusuf
put
in prison.
While
he was in prison,
Yusuf
used to tell everyone
what
their dreams meant
and
his explanation of the
dreams
always came true.
Allah
had given Yusuf
this
great gift.
Firawn
kept
having
a strange dream
and
none of his wise men
could
explain what it meant.
Then
Firawn heard of
Yusuf's
great gift and
sent
for him.
Yusuf
would not leave
the
prison until he had
proven
his innocence.
Firawn
had an inquiry
and
discovered that Yusuf
really
was innocent, so
he
was able to leave prison.
Firawn's
dream was most
unusual.
In it, he saw
seven
skinny cows eat
seven
big fat ones and
there
were seven skinny
ears
of wheat and
seven
fat ears of wheat.
Yusuf
explained that
this
meant there would
be
seven years of plenty
but
seven years of famine
would
follow, when there
would
be no water and
no
food for anyone.
After
that there would
be
a year of rain.
Firawn
liked and trusted
Yusuf
so he put him in
charge
of all the store houses
in
the land.
Yusuf
had worked himself
up
to a very powerful position.
Allah
always rewards
good
people.
Yusuf
worked hard; he
made
sure the store houses
were
filled with wheat and
grain.
Just
as he had said,
there
were seven years
of
plenty. Those years
passed
very quickly.
Soon
the seven years of
famine
came. The crops
failed.
People were
hungry.
Others were
starving.
Yusuf
had planned for
this.
He opened his
stores
and let everyone
have
some of the wheat.
Back
in Palestine,
Israil
too was facing
a
hard time with
no
food for his family
or
the animals.
He
sent his sons to
Egypt to get grain from
the
famous treasurer of
Egypt. When they arrived
they
were told that they
must
get permission from
the
governor to buy grain.
They
went to see him, but
did
not realize that the
fine
man, in splendid robes was
really
their brother. He told
them
they could have some
grain,
but if they wanted
any
more, they would have
to
come with their youngest
brother
and parents.
Yusuf
had recognised them
straight
away and he longed
to
see his father, mother
and
young brother Benjamin
again.
Eventually
the eleven
brothers
returned with
their
mother and father.
They
bowed down before Yusuf.
Yusuf
put his father on his
throne
and reminded him of
the
dream he had had so long ago.
The
sun, the moon and
eleven
stars had bowed
down
before him just as
his
father, mother and
brothers
had done at this
meeting,
This was a great
moment
in his life
and
he thanked
Allah,
for all He
had
done for him.
