12:41 Yusuf (Joseph)

يا صاحبيَّ في السجن، إليكما تفسيرَ رؤياكما: أما الذي رأى أنه يعصر العنب في رؤياه فإنه يخرج من السجن ويكون ساقي الخمر للملك، وأما الآخر الذي رأى أنه يحمل على رأسه خبزًا فإنه يُصْلب ويُتْرك، وتأكل الطير من رأسه، قُضي الأمر الذي فيه تستفتيان وفُرغ منه.

{ يَا صَاحِبَيِ السِّجْنِ أَمَّا أَحَدُكُمَا } وهو الذي رأى أنه يعصر خمرا، فإنه يخرج من السجن { فَيَسْقِي رَبَّهُ خَمْرًا } أي: يسقي سيده الذي كان يخدمه خمرا، وذلك مستلزم لخروجه من السجن، { وَأَمَّا الْآخَرُ } وهو: الذي رأى أنه يحمل فوق رأسه خبزا تأكل الطير منه. { فَيُصْلَبُ فَتَأْكُلُ الطَّيْرُ مِنْ رَأْسِهِ } فإنه عبر [عن] الخبز الذي تأكله الطير، بلحم رأسه وشحمه، وما فيه من المخ، وأنه لا يقبر ويستر عن الطيور، بل يصلب ويجعل في محل، تتمكن الطيور من أكله، ثم أخبرهما بأن هذا التأويل الذي تأوله لهما، أنه لا بد من وقوعه فقال: { قُضِيَ الْأَمْرُ الَّذِي فِيهِ تَسْتَفْتِيَانِ } أي: تسألان عن تعبيره وتفسيره.

" يقول لهما " يا صاحبي السجن أما أحدكما فيسقي ربه خمرا " وهو الذي رأى أنه يعصر خمرا ولكنه لم يعينه لئلا يحزن ذاك ولهذا أبهمه في قوله " وأما الآخر فيصلب فتأكل الطير من رأسه " وهو في نفس الأمر الذي رأى أنه يحمل فوق رأسه خبزا ثم أعلمهما أن هذا قد فرغ منه وهو واقع لا محالة لأن الرؤيا على رجل طائر ما لم تعبر فإذا عبرت وقعت وقال الثوري عن عمارة بن القعقاع عن إبراهيم بن عبد الله قال: لما قالا ما قالا وأخبرهما قالا ما رأينا شيئا فقال " قضي الأمر الذي فيه تستفتيان " ورواه محمد بن فضيل عن عبارة عن إبراهيم عن علقمة عن ابن مسعود به وكذا فسره مجاهد وعبد الرحمن بن زيد بن أسلم وغيرهم وحاصله أن من تحلم بباطل وفسره فإنه يلزم بتأويله والله تعالى أعلم وقد ورد في الحديث الشريف الذي رواه الإمام أحمد عن معاوية بن حيدة عن النبي صلي الله عليه وسلم قال الرؤيا على رجل طائر ما لم تعبر فإذا عبرت وقعت وفي مسند أبي يعلى من طريق يزيد الرقاشي عن أنس مرفوعا الرؤيا لأول عابر.

O fellow-prisoners! As for one of you that is the cup-bearer he will depart after three days and he shall serve his lord his master wine to drink as usual; and as for the other he will depart after three days and he will be crucified so that the birds will eat from his head this is the interpretation of both your dreams. They said ‘We never dreamed a thing!’; he said decided concluded is the matter regarding which you sought opinion’ about which you enquired whether you spoke truthfully or were lying.

After having made his call to truth, Sayyidna Yusuf (علیہ السلام) turned to the dreams mentioned by two of his prison mates declaring that one of the two of them will get his release, return to his job and keep serving wine to his master. As for the other, the crime against him will stand proved and he will be crucified and birds will eat from his head.

An Example of Prophetic Compassion

Ibn Kathir has said: Though the dreams of both these prisoners were separate, and fixed was the interpretation of each, and also fixed was the fate that the royal cup-bearer will be acquitted and return to his job and the cook will be crucified. But, because of his prophetic compassion and clemency, he did not specifically mention as to who among the two will be hanged so that the person concerned may be spared from becoming obsessed by the very thought of it right from that time. Instead of that, he made a general statement saying that one of them will be re-leased and the other will be crucified.

At the end, he told them that the interpretation of their dreams given by him was not arrived at by conjecture. It was Divine decree which cannot be averted. Commentators who have called the dreams de-scribed by these people as false and made-up, they have also said: When Sayyidna Yusuf (علیہ السلام) interpreted their dreams, they came up with the re-mark that they had just not seen any dream. They had simply made it up. Thereupon, Sayyidna Yusuf (علیہ السلام) said: قُضِيَ الْأَمْرُ‌ الَّذِي فِيهِ تَسْتَفْتِيَانِ (Destined is the matter you are asking about). In other words, it would mean: Whether you saw this dream, or did not, now the event will come to be as described - the purpose of which is that this is the punishment of the sin, of making up a false dream, committed by you, a punishment which has been identified in the interpretation of the dream.