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THE ESSENCE OF THE KORAN
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will ask pardon for you from my Lord; verily, He is the pardoning and the merciful."

And when they entered in unto Joseph, he took his father to stay with him, and said, "Enter ye into Egypt, if it please God, safe." And he raised his father upon the throne, and they fell down before him adoring.

And he said, "O my sire, this is the interpretation of my vision aforetime; my Lord has made it come true and he has been good to me, in bringing me forth out of prison and bringing you from the desert, after Satan had made a breach between me^and my brethren; verily my Lord is kind to whomsoever He will; verily. He is the knowing and the wise.

"O my Lord! Thou hast given me dominion and hast taught me the interpretation of signs and sayings; O originator of the heavens and the earth! Thou art my patron in this world and the next. Take me to Thyself resigned and let me reach the righteous!"

That is one of the stories of the unseen that we inspire you with, though thou wert not with them when they agreed in their affair, when they were so crafty. And yet most men, though thou shouldst be urgent, will not believe. … It was not a tale forged, but a verification of what was before it, and a detailing of everything and a guide and a mercy to a people who believe.


Note: When we compare the Mohammedan version of the story of Joseph, Potiphar and Pharaoh with the Talmud, or the Christian Old Testament, we cannot fail to notice a number of important differences. These differences, naturally, are due to