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] 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.
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 ...
People of a township in Surah Ya-Sin [60] People of Yathrib [ 31 ] or Medina [ 72 ] [ 79 ] Qawm Lūṭ ( Arabic : قَوْم لُوْط , Folk of Lot, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah) [ 8 ]
The Opening, the Opening of the Divine Writ, The Essence of the Divine Writ, The Surah of Praise, The Foundation of the Qur'an, and The Seven Oft-Repeated [Verses] [6] 7 (1) Makkah: 5: 48: Whole Surah [6] The fundamental principles of the Qur'an in a condensed form. [6] It reads: “(1) In the name of God (Allah), the Compassionate and Merciful ...
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 ...
Yusuf (Arabic: يوسف ٱبن يعقوب ٱبن إسحاق ٱبن إبراهيم, romanized: Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb ibn ʾIs-ḥāq ibn ʾIbrāhīm, lit. ' Joseph, son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham ') is a prophet and messenger of God mentioned in the Qur'an [1]: 34 and corresponds to Joseph, a person from the Hebrew and Christian Bible who was said to have lived in Egypt before the New ...
Jacob's next significant mention in the Quran is in the narrative of the surah Yusuf. Joseph's story in the Quran opens with a dream that Joseph had one night, after which he ran to his father Jacob, saying: "Behold! Joseph said to his father: "O my father! I did see eleven planets and the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrate themselves to me!"
Modern scholarship has long posited an origin for the sabab al-nuzūl based largely on its function within exegesis. William Montgomery Watt, for example, stressed the narratological significance of these types of reports: "The Quranic allusions had to be elaborated into complete stories and the background filled in if the main ideas were to be impressed on the minds of simple men."