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future and what would happen to
Binyamin. Ask the people of the city
where we stayed, and the people of
the caravan with which we traveled.
We have spoken the truth’.
”
It was a sad journey home. When
the brothers reached
Nabi
Ya’qub
[a] without Binyamin, they told their
ailing father that his son had com-
mitted a theft and that the king’s
minister had enslaved him as pun-
ishment.
Nabi
Ya’qub [a] was stunned by the
story. He knew his dear Binyamin
too well to believe that he could
have stolen anything. He flatly
refused to believe them, thinking
that they had plotted to get rid of
their youngest brother just as they
had plotted against Yusuf. So he
cried out, “
No! You have been
tempted to do evil yet again. But I
will be patient. Perhaps Allah will
