83 Preface قالَ بَل سَوَّلَت لَكُم أَنفُسُكُم أَمرًا ۖ فَصَبرٌ جَميلٌ ۖ عَسَى اللَّهُ أَن يَأتِيَني بِهِم جَميعًا ۚ إِنَّهُ هُوَ العَليمُ الحَكيمُYusuf AliJacob said: “Nay, but ye have yourselves contrived a story (good enough) for you.1 So patience is most fitting (for me). Maybe God will bring them (back) all to me (in the end).2 For He is indeed full of knowledge and wisdom.”Jacob was absolutely stunned by the story. He knew his darling little Benjamin too well to believe that he had committed theft. He flatly refused to believe it, and called it a cock-and-bull story, which indeed it was, though not in the sense in which he reproached the nine brothers. With the eye of faith he saw clearly the innocence of Benjamin, though he did not see every detail of what had happened.With the eye of faith he clung to even a larger hope. Perhaps all three of his lost sons would come back?###Joseph, Benjamin, and Judah. His faith in God was unswerving, although alas! the present facts altogether unnerved him. (R).