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Regarding the story of Yoosuf, we know ath Yoosuf's brother plotted to throw him down a well and the they wnt to their father, playing all innocent, as Allaah says:
The following is a light "tafseer":
They came back at night, but they were not supposed to stay out that late. Nobody picnics in the darkness. They are supposed to come back at maghrib / when the light is finishing. They purposely delayed to add to the plot and to pretend that they were searching and did not know what to do. They came at night much later than they should have come. They came back to their father crying.
In order to carry out their cruel act, they plot together a story, and in order to embellish the story, they show these false emotions. We all know human nature; it is easy to show these false emotions when you have an evil heart. Emotions are not the basis of pronouncing judgment on anything. Simply because someone is crying or emotional does not mean that they are innocent or scot-free. This is something that we all know from human experience, but yet unfortunately we still fall into this.
There is a famous incident of Shurayh Al-Qadhi, the most famous judge of Islamic history who was a tabi’i. He was a very wise judge and many stories are mentioned about him. It was mentioned that once a woman was accused of something and came to him sobbing hysterically. When women cry, men get very worried because it is human nature that the manliness of a man comes out to calm her down and help her. She was sobbing and crying, and Shurayh was dead emotionless. His own students were embarrassed and ashamed. Shurayh was dead silent. When the woman left, they said, “Ya shaykh, you could have at least shown some sympathy. Maybe dhulm was done? She was sobbing and weeping. Why not sympathy?” Shurayh said, “Verily the brothers of Yusuf were also sobbing and crying and they were dhalamah and fasaqah. I don’t care how much people are crying or not. We base our ruling on facts and not on emotion.”
SubhanAllah in that particular case, it turned out that the woman was lying and the sobs and tears were fake. This shows that a Muslim and wise man does not judge based on emotions.
source: http://muslimmatters.org/2011/05/13/the-best-of-stories-pearls-from-surah-yusuf-part-4/
“They came to their father at night, crying.” [12:16]
The following is a light "tafseer":
They came back at night, but they were not supposed to stay out that late. Nobody picnics in the darkness. They are supposed to come back at maghrib / when the light is finishing. They purposely delayed to add to the plot and to pretend that they were searching and did not know what to do. They came at night much later than they should have come. They came back to their father crying.
In order to carry out their cruel act, they plot together a story, and in order to embellish the story, they show these false emotions. We all know human nature; it is easy to show these false emotions when you have an evil heart. Emotions are not the basis of pronouncing judgment on anything. Simply because someone is crying or emotional does not mean that they are innocent or scot-free. This is something that we all know from human experience, but yet unfortunately we still fall into this.
There is a famous incident of Shurayh Al-Qadhi, the most famous judge of Islamic history who was a tabi’i. He was a very wise judge and many stories are mentioned about him. It was mentioned that once a woman was accused of something and came to him sobbing hysterically. When women cry, men get very worried because it is human nature that the manliness of a man comes out to calm her down and help her. She was sobbing and crying, and Shurayh was dead emotionless. His own students were embarrassed and ashamed. Shurayh was dead silent. When the woman left, they said, “Ya shaykh, you could have at least shown some sympathy. Maybe dhulm was done? She was sobbing and weeping. Why not sympathy?” Shurayh said, “Verily the brothers of Yusuf were also sobbing and crying and they were dhalamah and fasaqah. I don’t care how much people are crying or not. We base our ruling on facts and not on emotion.”
SubhanAllah in that particular case, it turned out that the woman was lying and the sobs and tears were fake. This shows that a Muslim and wise man does not judge based on emotions.
source: http://muslimmatters.org/2011/05/13/the-best-of-stories-pearls-from-surah-yusuf-part-4/