The fight for the Holy Grail in Surat Yusuf in the Quran

Surat Yusuf in the Quran is dedicated to the Prophet and his family. In a previous article, I had introduced the phrase “and I trusted him to be a commodity” in this surah, and I showed that it is related to “selling the secret,” which is a model of pre-Islamic sales. As for this article, I will talk about “Al Sawaa”. Joseph asked his brothers to bring their brother Benjamin with them on their next trip to Egypt. After they brought him in and saw him with their own eyes, and the brothers were preparing for the return journey, Joseph’s followers put the “rays” on Benjamin’s departure, then said the king had been missed, and they accused Benjamin of stealing it so that Joseph would have it with him: “And when they got to Joseph, his brother picked him up, said: I am your brother, do not be discouraged by what they were doing. When he equipped them with his gadgets, he made the watering machine during his brother’s trip, then he made the call to prayer: Oh, Iran, you are thieves. They said and accept what to lose. They said: “We lose the throats of the king, and the one who brought a camel, while I was a leader. They said: By God, you know what we have come to despoil on earth and we have not been thieves. They said, what is the reward if they are liars. They said that his reward is whatever he meets on his journey, because he is his reward. So he started with his vessels before his brother’s bowl, then he took them out of his brother’s bowl. Similarly, we had to Joseph, he would not have brought his brother into the king’s religion if it weren’t because, God willing, we raise the degrees of what we want and especially who is aware of. They said if he steals, his brother has stolen before, and Yusef captured it within himself and did not show it to him. He said: You are a worse place and God knows what you describe “(Surat Yusuf: 65-77).

As we can see, the rays are called “the king’s rays”, which means that it is the king’s cup. But it has another name, which is “Al-Saqaya”, as the verses show. Although there is a disagreement about the Sawaa in Arabic sources, the general tendency is that it is a golden vessel, or a golden cup, to drink: “In the hadith of Ibn Abbas, may God be pleased with them, in the interpretation of his saying: The Sawaa of the King ‘, said: As the steering wheel, and it was Abbas [عم الرسول] As in pre-Islamic times, he gets drunk with it ”(Al-Zubaidi, the bride’s crown).
My thesis in this article is that the original story, the most distant in time, was about the fight between José and Benjamin for this lightning bolt over this golden cup. This is supported by the fact that the conflict in pre-Islamic Mecca also revolved around the function of “watering”, which ran in a leather bowl. This charge was held by Abd al-Dar bin Qusay. But Abdul Manaf bin Qusay questioned it. Based on that, the two parties formed two alliances, each made up of six tribes, to resolve this conflict:
“As for recovery and irrigation, they are still in the life of Qusay to Abd bin Qusai. They then became Abd al-Dar bin Qusay, until the status of Bani Abd Manaf bin Qusay was magnified. They said: We are more important than their children of Abd al-Dar, so they collected money from them and learned about their virtues, and they are: Bani Asad bin Abd al-Uzzi bin Qusay, Bani Zahra bin Kalab and Bani Taym bin Marra bin Kaab, and whoever was inside Mecca from Bani Al-Harith bin Fahr. And they are the people of Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah, and they came to a container in which there was goodness. It is said that they allied and made a pact in the house of Ibn Jadaan. That is why they were called righteous.
Bani Abd al-Dar swore to prevent the good people from growing up and their will: the Banu Makhzum, the Banu Jumah, the Banu Sahem and the Banu Uday bin Kaab. And they met, and the Banu Uday said: Good is only for goddesses. And they brought a bowl of blood and put their hands in it. If the Arabs joined forces, they would dip their hands in salt and ash. The so-called Banu Adi for the tongue of blood and the tongue of blood. Some of them are said to have licked their blood. It is said that the two teams of the good guys and alliances fought, then agreed to do the sacrifice and watering for Bani Abd Manaf. It is said that they did not fight, but the men traveled among themselves until they agreed with these two honorable women ”(Al-Baladhiri, Ansab Al-Ashraf).
The truth is that the mercy was not for Abd al-Dar, as al-Baladhari mentions, but for Abd al-Manaf. The only irrigation was that of Abd al-Dar. These two functions were related to Sanamayn: the two deities installed on Safa and Marwa. In the Saffa, the idol was “beyond the wind”, whose name means: “drinker of wine”. Hence this idol is related to the irrigation function. In the marwah, the idol was “the bird’s restaurant”, whose name means “food and remembrance.” In other words, this idol is related to the seduction function.
During the Jahiliyyah there were two pilgrimages: a one-month summer pilgrimage that occurred in July at the most, and a three-month autumn-winter pilgrimage that occurred between October and December. And on the second pilgrimage, the “bird restaurant” group needed water from Zamzam, that is, the water from the bottom, the spring water. But this water belongs to the idol god “Overwind” and his followers. Therefore, the group “bird restaurant” has no right to use it. So when Abd al-Muttalib tried to re-dig the well of Zamzam that had been blocked, the followers of “Overwind” stopped him. The water is your water, not your water.
To solve this problem, Abd al-Muttalib and the followers of the “bird restaurant” had to pay the price for this water. The price is the sacrifice of Abdullah, as it happened with Abraham when he symbolically sacrificed Isaac in exchange for “Beersheba” water. Therefore, Beersheba is Zamzam, Palestine. Abdullah was symbolically sacrificed. Sacrificial rituals were performed and then he was replaced by an animal, as happened with Isaac. Therefore, for Abdul Muttalib, his group installed the Zamzam water.
However, this did not mean that Zamzam had become the property of the “Birds Restaurant” group. They were allowed to use this water during their Hajj just for drinking, and nothing else. And the water was poured into the trough and the pilgrims drank it. In the summer pilgrimage, the pilgrimage “on the wind”, wine was poured into the watering cap. The Messenger himself drank wine from this drink, according to the hadith of Companion Tavoos: “Then he walked [الرسول] To water, drink wine, drink, then Al-Abbas said: This is [النبيذ] As of today, her hands have been stretched out and she has been emptied, and there is pure drink in the house, so the Prophet (PBUH) refused to drink except from her. Then Abbas returned to that saying, so the Prophet (peace be upon him) refused to drink except from him, until Abbas returned three times, and the Prophet (PBUH) refused to drink except from him. It was watered. He said: The Tawoos used to say: Drinking wine is from the completion of Hajj ”(Al-Azraqi, Makkah News).
In fact, the story of José speaks of this water and this irrigation. That is why he called the Sawaa ‘in sura “The Sawaa of the King”. It is the vessel that determines the owner and owner of the water, and determines the price charged to whoever wants to use this water. Consequently, I can say that the original version that I assume from Surat Yusuf allows us to say that Joseph had a relationship with a god similar to the “bird’s restaurant” and that Benjamin had a relationship with a deity similar to the god of “beyond the wind. – the wine drinker ”. This is backed by the very name Benjamin. It means “son of the south”. And the southern sky is the one that has to do with the lower waters. The center is south of the sky and its symbol is “Gemini”. And Gemini in Arabic means: irrigation, which means that it has a relationship with irrigation: “I have asked so and so and he allowed me, if he gives you water for your land or for your cattle … and it is allowed that his camel give him water. And the watering nut … In the proverb: Everyone who brings a goat receives a call to prayer, that is, for every drinker who returns to water, water is forbidden ”(Lisan Al-Arab). The sign of Gemini practically includes the star of “Sirius Al-Obour Al-Yamania” and the star of “Suhail Al-Yamani”. They are two deified stars associated with the rise of the water below the surface from the depths. Due to this rise, the Nile and similar rivers overflow. As for its adjective (Yamani), it means: South. It is easy to notice that his name corresponds to the name “Bin-Yamen”, which means: Ibn Al-Janoubi. Therefore, all three are Yemenis from the south.
Lest this seem like a delusion or an exaggeration in interpretation, we must point out that the story of Joseph’s imprisonment in the Torah and the Qur’an supports it. When he was incarcerated, the children entered the prison with him:
“Two boys went into jail with him. One of them said that he showed me making wine and the other said that I had seen myself carrying bread on my head so that the birds could eat. We tell ourselves to interpret it. We see you among the benefactors. He said: No food will come to you with which you will be blessed, except your news of interpreting it before he comes to you. That is what my Lord taught me … O prisoner, one of you makes your Lord drink wine, and the other fills you, and you eat the birds off his head.

It seems to me that the Holy Grail in Christianity, with which Christ is said to have drank at the Last Supper, is related to lightning.

As we can see, one of the two prisoners with Joseph will drink his Lord with wine, that is, he will be a “wine drinker” as “beyond the wind”. As for the second, he will kill and eat the bird off his head, which means that he will be a “bird feeder” like Abdullah bin Abdul Muttalib.
Consequently, Surah Yusef represents the Palestinian version of the myth, while Al-Saqaya and Abdullah Al-Zabih represent the Arabian Peninsula. The irrigation, or the king’s sawa, at Surat Yusuf is a miniature manual model for watering Mecca at the end of the pre-Islamic era.
Consequently, in the original story, Benjamin is the owner of the watering table, the lightning bolt. You cannot steal what you have. They put her on a trip because she’s theirs. Joseph gave it back to Benjamin because it belonged to him. He used it on a fixed date and then returned it. However, the editors of the Torah had lost the meaning of the myth, in addition to having nullified many of the mythical stories to shape the conflict between Israel and Judea, which ended with the formation of the Jewish religion as we know it now.
It seems to me that the Holy Grail in Christianity, with which Christ is said to have drank at the Last Supper, is related to lightning. And many English Arthurian stories revolve around him about the attempt to find this legendary cup. It is another version of the fight for the Holy Grail.

* Palestinian poet

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