8 Preface إِذ قالوا لَيوسُفُ وَأَخوهُ أَحَبُّ إِلىٰ أَبينا مِنّا وَنَحنُ عُصبَةٌ إِنَّ أَبانا لَفي ضَلالٍ مُبينٍYusuf AliThey said: “Truly Joseph and his brother are loved more by our father than we: But we are a goodly body!1 really our father is obviously wandering (in his mind)!The ten brothers envied and hated their innocent younger brothers, Joseph and Benjamin. Jacob had the wisdom to see that his young and innocent sons wanted protection and to perceive Joseph’s spiritual greatness. But his wisdom, to them, was folly or madness or imbecility, because it touched their self-love, as truth often does. And they relied on the brute strength of numbers?the ten hefty brethren against old Jacob, the lad Joseph, and the boy Benjamin!