My Faith Islam 10 Qasas, Seerah & Tarikh -> abstract
The following is the story of Prophet Yusuf [a] (Joseph), the
youngest of the twelve sons of the patriarch Prophet Ya’qub [a] (Jacob). The
story is called the most beautiful of stories for many reasons: I) it is the
most detailed of any in the Qur’an ; 2) it is full of human vicissitudes, and
has therefore deservedly appealed to men and women of all classes; 3) it paints
in vivid colours, with their spiritual implications, the most varied aspects of
life - the patriarch’s old age and the confidence between him and his little
best-beloved son, the elder brothers’ jealousy of this little son, their plot
and their father’s grief, the sale of the father’s darling into slavery for a
miserable little price, carnal love contrasted with purity and chastity, false
charges, prison, the interpretation of dreams, low life and high life,
innocence raised to honour, the sweet ‘revenge’ of forgiveness and benevolence,
high matters of state and administration, huility in exaltation, filial love,
and the beauty of piety and truth. The story is similar to but not identical
with the Biblical story, but the atmosphere is wholly different. The Biblical
story is like a folk-tale in which morality has no place. Its tendency is to
exalt the clever and financiallyminded Jew against the Egyptian, and to explain
certain ethnic and tribal peculiarities in later Jewish history. Joseph is
shown as buying up all the cattle and the land of the poor Egyptians for the
State under the stress of famine conditions, and making the Israelites ‘rulers’
over Pharoah’s cattle. The Quranic story, on the other hand, is less a
narrative than a highly spiritual sermon or allegory explaining the seeming
contradictions in life, the enduring nature of virtue in a world full of flux
and change, and the marvellous working of Allah’s eternal purpose in His Plan
as unfolded to us on the wide canvas of history.
chapters of this course 12 chapters
QASAS / LESSON 1 Yusuf [a], The Special Child(1 h )
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A Wonderful dream of Yusuf (a)
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Yusuf in the bottom of the well
QASAS / LESSON 2 Egypt: The Wonderful Fortune(1 h )
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Yusuf in a palace in Egypt
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Yusuf and Zulaykhah
QASAS / LESSON 3 The True Meaning of Dreams(1 h )
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The dream of two prisoner
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Interpritation of king's dream
QASAS / LESSON 4 The Great Famine(1 h )
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Yusuf's brother in Egypt
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Binyamin now in Egypt
QASAS / LESSON 5 Joy: The Dream Comes True(1 h )
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when Yusuf [a] and Prophet Ya’qub [a] were reunited
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What happened next
SIRAT / LESSON 1 The Birth of the Prophet [s](30 min)
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The Arabs & The prophet Muhammad's birth
SIRAT / LESSON 2 Nursed in the Desert(30 min)
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In the hut of Halimah
SIRAT / LESSON 3 A Visit to Yathrib(30 min)
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Death of Aminah
SIRAT / LESSON 4 Early Career & Marriage(30 min)
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Getting marriage with Khadija
SIRAT / LESSON 5 The First Revelation(30 min)
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In the cave of Hera
TARIKH / LESSON 1 Sayyidatuna Khadijah [r](30 min)
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The most beloved wife of the prophet
TARIKH / LESSON 2 Sayyiduna ‘Bilal [r](30 min)
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The first Mu’adhdhin of Islam
