Ibnul-Qayyim رحمه
الله said: I heard Sheikh ul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه
الله say:
((The patience of
Yoosuf عليه السلام against compliance to the wife of
Al-‘Azeez in her matter was more complete than his patience over his being
thrown into the well by his brothers and his being sold off as well as their
separating him from his father. For these affairs passed him whilst he had no
choice in them, he was not secure from them; the servant is in no position in
them except to have patience. As for his patience from committing sin; then
that was practicing a patience of choice and waging a war upon the Nafs
(inner-self/soul).
In particular with the
presence of the reasons that would add strength to that: for she had
allegations which were appropriate – since he was a youth, and so the prime of
youth to that is strong, and he was single – he had nothing that could
substitute that and so repel his desire, and he was a stranger – and a stranger
does not feel shy in the land in which he is a stranger in the same way that he
would feel shy being amongst his own companions and those that know him as well
as his family. He was likewise under ownership – and so for the one who is
owned his obstruction is not like the obstruction of the one who is free, and
the woman was beautiful – and possessing high lineage as well as her being in
authority over him, and so any watcher is absent, and she is calling him to
herself – and covetous upon that with extreme desire, and with that she
promises him if he does not conform to that with: imprisonment and debasement.
Yet
with all these pretensions he was patient out of choice and preference with
that which is with Allaah, and where is that in comparison to his patience in
the well in which he had no security from?))
Shaykh
ul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله
Jaami'
al-aadaab vol 1 p.368
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