JOSEPH, THE TREASURER OF EGYPT (VERSES NO. 54 - 57)

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Verses 58-62Verses 54-57

      Now we come to the point of Joseph's beautiful story when he was completely acquitted of all charges and accusations and all were sure of his honesty and innocence. People knew that the cause of his imprisonment was merely his piety and virtue. By now it had been known that he possessed great faculties and extraordinary knowledge and high skill in management. So the king of Egypt brought him out of the Jail and gave him the highest rank of honour and esteem, and trusted him the most!:ِ

      ``And the king said:ِ Bring him to me that I may elect him for myself''. Then when Joseph spoke to the king, he said to Joseph:ِ ``To-day you are honoured and trusted with us.''

      Joesph then asked the king to assign him in charge of the resources and treasures of the whole land of Egypt. To justify his request, Joseph claimed to have been a very well preserver of sustenances, and also having a wide variety of knowledge. In fact Joseph was not praising himself by saying that; he rather introduced himself to make it easy for the king in order to put the right man in the right position. Later on he proved to be right in his claim by organizing reserves in years of plenty against the years of famine to come. During his management he always undertook the hardest and the most unpopular tasks himself, and did not put it upon the shoulders of the other staff.

      The king accepted his requests by all means, and gave him the plenary authority that he wanted:ِ

      ``And so did We establish Joseph in the land with power and authority to make his office wherever he willed.'' Let us now consider the wonderful and mysterious hand of God working powerfully on his plans:ِ A believer and faithful boy whose brethren cast him into a well to get rid of him; is raised up, and upper, and becomes the most trusted dignitary of the king of the greatest empires of the world of the day. He gradually won the position of the Aziz of Egypt, and eventually became the governor of Egypt without any rival! And yet his reward is promised to be given him in the life to come.

      True that some people will receive their rewards for good-deeds in this present mortal life, but this is not general and for all. Some people may indeed deserve a great reward for what they do in this short life, but they don't get it. God through his justice and Mercy will not waste the reward of the good-doer. He will give them their due in full measure in the life to come:ِ

      ``We waste not the reward of the good-doers. The reward of the Hereafter is far better for those who believed and were pious.''

 

 

 

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