A PLAN TO DETAIN BENJAMINE (VERSES NO. 69 - 76)

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Verses 77-79Verses 69-76

      At last the brethren presented themselves to the AZIZ of Egypt (JOSEPH) once again and said:ِ We did fulfill our promise, and got the agreement of our father for bringing our younger brother to you. Joseph received them with pleasure, and invited them to his dinner, and accommodated them two by two, when Benjamine became the odd one.

      Benjamine's eyes overflowed with tears, and when Joseph asked him why so? He said:ِ ``If my brother Joseph was alive he would have his dinner with me, and it was his custom to dine with me.'' Joseph said to Benjamine, you may come and have dinner with me if you don't mind! By all means I want to, said Benjamine because you are exactly same as my brother Joseph, in all physical and spiritual aspects! Joseph who was touched by certain emotions of joy, mingled with grief, said to his brother:ِ ``Then come and take dinner with me, and I will consider and adopt you as my own brother.''

      And so did Joseph create a chance of privacy with Benjamine and in their private chat, he said to him:ِ

      ``I am Joseph, your own brother! Do not worry of what they have been doing.''

      Joseph said to him who he really was, and what had happened in that long period of his absence. Then he asked Benjamine if he liked to remain with him there in Egypt? He said to his brother Joseph:ِ ``Of course I do, but our brothers will not let you to detain me here, because they have made a solemn covenant with father to take me back to him in any price.''

      Joseph emphasised to keep his identity secret for the time being, and also to take things easy if something strange and abnormal was done with respect to him, for he had some plans to be executed in order to with hold Benjamine. The plan has been explained in the next verses:ِ

      ``When he furnished them with their provisions, he put a drinking cup in his brother's pack. Then a crier cried; O, cameleers! You are thieves!''

      Joseph put that plan the detail of which is given in the following verses, into execution by the leave of Allah and with a three-fold purposes:ِ

      1- To touch the brethren with a temporary awe in order to wake up their minds and drowsy conscience.

      2- To make them ashamed of their past behaviour and to return to God in repentance.

      3- It would also give him an excuse and authority to retain Benjamine and to bring their aged father into Egypt. After-all; if, Joseph wanted to judge the theft, according to the Pharaoh's Law, he had to beat his innocent brother severely, and then put him in the prison; and this punishment was very unjust. This is why the verse (NO.76) states that:ِ

      ``By the king's law Joseph could not seize and detain his brother.''

      Joseph was an apostle and man of God, and could not have carried out that sort of a plan without Allah's permission, or otherwise, in order to withhold his brother. Therefore the search of the baggage and investigations, went on under his direct control and supervision:ِ

      ``Then he began with the search of their sacks, before his brother's sack, and at last he took it out of his brother's baggage!!''

      When the drinking-cup was found in the baggage of Benjamine, the brethren were struck with astonishment! They were indeed perplexed, but even then, they did not hide their inner hatred and grudge for Joseph and Benjamine; and called both of them thieves! They could not think that Joseph could be before them in another guise, or at least they were not ashamed of Joseph's Lord who is always and every where present.

      They all rushed to reproach Benjamine, asking him, why did he so disgrace the house of Israel by committing that theft?

      In answer to them Benjamine said:ِ ``The same hand that put your money back in your packs, has now put the cup in mine!'' He said so, but the brethren did not understand what did he mean by saying that.

 

 

 

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