˹Remember˺ when Joseph said to his father, “O my dear father! Indeed I dreamt of eleven stars, and the sun, and the moon—I saw them prostrating to me!”1
Yusuf (as)'s incredible story begins with him, as a little boy, seeing a strange dream in which he sees eleven stars, and the sun and the moon, all prostrating to him. The dream makes no sense to him at the time, but his father Yaqub (as) understands that the dream foretells greatness for his young son.
Allah had a plan for Yusuf (as) right from the start, but it took years and years for it to come to fruition. None of the hardships that Yusuf (...
I wish to focus on one lesson from Prophet Yusuf (as)'s story in the Qur'an, though it was hard choosing just one. Yusuf (as)'s incredible story begins with him, as a little boy, recounting a strange dream to his father. In that dream he sees eleven stars, and the sun and the moon, all prostrating to him. The dream makes no sense to him at the time, but his father Yaqub (as) understands that the dream foretells greatness for his young son. This s...
The original context of this ayat in itself is a powerful concept that, Alhamdulillah, we Muslims embrace especially through our daily struggles.
In Primary school, we had weekly general knowledge quizzes in the school hall. It was a big thing for a 10 year old back then. I had to memorise facts like Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Mind you, this was in the 1970s so maybe many of the facts I lear...