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Yusuf and Zulaikha (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) is a title given to many tellings in the Muslim world of the story of the relationship between the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife. Developed primarily from the account in Sura 12 of the Qur'an, a distinct story of Yusuf and Zulaikha seems to have developed in ...
] The text narrates the story of Yusuf , son of Jacob, who is a prophet in Islam, and recounts his life and mission. Unlike the accounts of other Islamic prophets, [4] different elements and aspects of which are related in different surahs, the life-history of Yusuf, is narrated in this surah only, in full and in chronological order.
Whole Surah [6] Unity of the human race and the mutual obligations of men and women towards one another. (v. 1) [6] Rights of women. [6] Questions related to family life (including marriage and inheritance). [6] Peace and war. [6] Relations of believers with unbelievers. [6] Striving in the Cause of Allah . (v. 95–97) [8] 4-6 5: Al-Ma'idah
The story of Yusuf and Zulaykha, wife of Joseph's master the Aziz, is one of the most extensive depictions of women in the Quran. [2] She appears in Surah 12 as part of Joseph's chronological narrative shortly after he is sold into slavery in Egypt. In this narrative Zulaykha attempts to seduce Joseph, at first outright and then by using guile ...
Potiphar's wife, as well as Potiphar himself, are not explicitly named in the Quran, though it alludes to a governor (Arabic: العزيز al-azīz) and his wife. The book narrates her treatment of Yusuf as follows: And she, in whose house he was, sought to seduce him. She closed the doors and said, "Come to me!" He (Joseph) responded, "God forbid!
The book is sometimes called the Tafsir Surat Yusuf (The Commentary on the Surah of Joseph), or Ahsan al-Qisas, meaning the "best" or "most beautiful" of all stories, an allusion to the Surah which the book is ostensibly focused on. "Ahsan al-Qisas" comes from the well-known name for Surat Yusuf in general, derived from the third verse of that ...
A Washington, D.C. man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death and then texted a photograph of her dead body to other family members last Friday.
The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary is an English translation of the Qur'an by the British Indian Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953) during the British Raj.It has become among the most widely known English translations of the Qur'an, due in part to its prodigious use of footnotes, and its distribution and subsidization by Saudi Arabian beneficiaries during the late 20th century.