Book Name:Tabarukat Ki Barakaat

Cure from the shirt of Yusuf عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَم

The story of Sayyiduna Yusuf and Ya’qoob عَـلَـيْهِمُ السَّلَام has been mentioned by Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ in Surah Yusuf: When the step-brothers of Sayyiduna Yusuf عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام threw him into the well and some business people took him to Misr (Egypt) after taking him out of the well and sold him, Sayyiduna Ya’qoob عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام suffered profound sorrow due to being separated from his son. He عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام wept for many days, and due to his excessive weeping, his eyesight became weak. After many years, when Sayyiduna Yusuf عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام found out, through his brothers, that his father’s eyesight has become very weak, he عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام sent his blessed shirt as a holy relic for his father عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام, and what he said, has been mentioned in the Holy Qur’an, as such.

It is mentioned in Part 13, Surah Yusuf, verse 93:

اِذْهَبُوْا بِقَمِیْصِیْ هٰذَا فَاَلْقُوْهُ عَلٰى وَجْهِ اَبِیْ یَاْتِ بَصِیْرًاۚ-

Translation of Kanz-ul-Iman: Take this shirt of mine and place it on my father’s face; his vision will be restored.

[Kanz-ul-Iman (Translation of Quran)] (Part 13, Surah Yusuf, Ayah 93)

When the brothers of Sayyiduna Yusuf عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَم put the shirt on Sayyiduna Ya’qoob’s عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَم face, then what happened? This has been mentioned a few verses later:

فَلَمَّاۤ اَنْ جَآءَ الْبَشِیْرُ اَلْقٰىهُ عَلٰى وَجْهِهٖ فَارْتَدَّ بَصِیْرًاۚ-

Then when the bearer of glad tidings came (i.e. one brother, Yahuda), he placed the shirt on the face of Ya’qoob, he immediately regained his eyesight.

(Parah. 13, Surah Yusuf, Ayah 96)

It is stated in Tafseer Siraat-ul-Jinaan that the majority of commentators of the Holy Qur’an رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـه state: The giver of good news was the brother of Sayyiduna Yusuf عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام, Yahuda. Yahuda said: I am the one that had given the shirt filled with blood to Sayyiduna Ya’qoob عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَم, I am the one that had said that a wolf had eaten Sayyiduna Yusuf عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَم and I am the one that made him sorrowful. For this reason, I will be the one to take the shirt to him and I will be the one to inform him of the existence of Sayyiduna Yusuf عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَم. Therefore, Yahuda took the shirt and came running 240 miles. When