This book is about the Sufi Interpretation of Joseph Story in the
Quran. The interpretation theme is focused on the Path of the Heart
from Being to Annihilation and then to Enduring. Quran is the
ultimate miracle of Islam, because of it is exquisite meanings and
cognizance, and because of the wisdom and guidance and healing for
the believers. One aspect of this supremacy of the Quran is its
multi-layer systems of interpretation; on the outward form the
meanings of most verses are direct and easily understood by the
public, yet with little thoughtful contemplation one could dig for
many fascinating meanings which were not readily understood from
the first reading. But there are even deeper layers of
interpretations which are only accessible to the mystics. It has
been reported that the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said
that the Quran has an outward form and an inner form, and its inner
form has yet an inner form, and so on to seven inner levels. The
fundamental key to get to understand these inner levels of
interpretation is based on the mystic Sufi view that everything in
the cosmos is reflected in the human, and vice versa; thus we can
say that the cosmos is a macro-human and the human is a
micro-cosmos. Thus Ibn Arabi explains that Allah created the world
in the image of the Human Being and the Human Being is on the Image
of God. Hence the manifest world, like the Perfect Human Being, is
according to the Image of the Real Himself although without the
Perfect Human Being it could not participate in this perfection.
But there are also other levels of correspondences, for example
between the various prophets and saints or evils and enemies of God
on the one hand and the human intellectual faculties on the other
hand. In this regard, the famous story of the prophet Joseph and
his father Jacob, and his other brothers, in Chapter 12 in the
Quran, is a good example of how the Sufis apply their metaphysical
views on the interpretation of Quran. According to this account,
Joseph corresponds to the Heart who wants to guide the Body or the
Human to salvation, and thus he is favored by his father Jacob, the
Reason, who turns always to the Heart and to the Rational Force
(the brother of Joseph) with love and care and gives them more
attention than their brethren (the five phenomenal senses: Hearing,
Sight, Smell, Taste and Touch, and the five inward senses:
Imagination, Rational, Illusion, Remembrance and Memory, in
addition to Anger and Lust) who only care about themselves and run
after their own fantasies. To this end, these twelve forces -
except the force of Memory, which does not envy the Heart - see
that the Heart has accounted for all the attention of Reason and
took their chances, so they planned to get rid of their brother.
And so the story develops in the same way as it happened in real
life with prophet Joseph and his father and brothers, ... until he
meets the Soul (Zuleika) who fancies him and loves him
passionately, but being on the wrong faith she wanted only to drag
him to fulfill her earthly desires. But God's care and mercy
preceded to the Heart and He saved him from drowning in the sea of
deadly desires, ... so he preferred to stay in seclusion ... where
he stayed in the prison for some years. When he entered in
solitude, entered with him two friends: the power of spiritual love
and the fancy power of the Soul, ... The first later returned to
his lord and the latter was stopped ... when the Soul was about to
elevate into higher level of true faith and her natural love and
desire will turn into spiritual love so she will follow the Heart
in his path to God rather than attracting him to her fantasies...
which will pave the way for the state annihilation in God, which is
the perfection state of the Heart, ... thus he was inaugurated on
the treasures of the earth... and so another phase of the story
begins, the phase of enduring life that starts when the Heart is
fully realized in his Lor
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