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the Conqueror? Those whom you serve besides Him are nothing but
names which you and your fathers have invented and for which Allah
has revealed no sanction. Judgement rests with Allah only. He has
commanded you to worship none but Him. That is the true faith: yet
most men do not know.
'My two fellow-prisoners, one of you will serve his king with wine.
The other will be crucified, and the birds will peck at his head. This
settles thematter you are enquiring about.'
And he said to the prisoner who he knewwould be freed: 'Remember
me in the presence of your lord.'
But the devil made him forget to mention (Yusuf) to his lord, so that
he stayed in prison for a fewyears.
The king said: 'I saw seven fatted cows which seven lean ones
devoured; and seven green ears of corn and seven others dry. O my
nobles, tell me themeaning of this vision, if you can interpret visions.'
They said: 'They are confused dreams; nor are we skilled in the
interpretation of dreams.'
The one of the two who had been freed remembered after all that
time. He said: 'I shall tell youwhat it means. Giveme leave to go.'
He said: 'Yusuf, man of truth, tell us of the seven fatted cows which
seven lean ones devoured; also of the seven green ears of corn and the
other seven which were dry, so that I go back to the people that,
perchance, theymay understand.'
He (Yusuf) replied: 'You shall sow for seven consecutive years.
Leave in the ear of corn you reap, except a little which you may eat.
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THE QURAN