Artinya Nabi Yusuf tidak dapat menghukumnya kecuali Allah menghendaki melalui wahyu-Nya supaya Nabi Yusuf menghukum saudaranya itu sesuai dengan syariat yang berlaku pada mereka Kami tinggikan derajat orang yang Kami kehendaki melalui ilmu seperti yang Kami lakukan terhadap Yusuf | And it is also obvious that the royal servants checked their packs as a matter of routine for such is the procedure that is generally followed on such occasions |
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Secondly, such a version is meaningless, for there could have been no reason why he had not the power to seize him for theft according to the law of the king | But He did not will it so because He did not like to tarnish the fair name of His Prophet |
, had to continue for some time.
10artinya yang lebih mengetahui daripadanya sehingga rentetannya selesai pada Allah swt | |
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Can there be any kingdom without having a law for taking action against a thief? It is obvious that the plan of placing the cup in Benjamin's pack was thought out and executed by Joseph himself | What difference, then, could it have made, if Prophet Joseph had followed, in his personal case too, the system of law of the king which he himself was enforcing instead of the system of law of Prophet Abraham? " This version is open to two objections |
For instance, drinking, interest, the unIslamic laws of inheritance and marriage and some wrong ways of trade, etc.
5So there is nothing strange in this that the king's law continued to be in vogue during the first nine years or so of Prophet Joseph's reign | It is, therefore, a proof that that Prophet himself was enforcing the un-Islamic law of the king |
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Most certainly this would have made a vast difference because it would have compromised his position as a Prophet, because he was trying to establish the Islamic Way of life, which naturally could have been accomplished gradually in course of time, during which the king's law would have inevitably remained in vogue |
Therefore he made the servants enquire from the brothers an unusual thing about the punishment of a thief and they stated the Law of Prophet Abraham.