Joseph
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[12:5]
[Jacob] replied: "O my dear son! Do not relate thy dream to thy brothers lest [out of envy] they devise an evil scheme against thee; verily, Satan is man’s open foe!

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* v.5 : See sūrah 11, note 65.
* As in the Biblical account of Joseph’s story, the Qur’ān shows that Jacob did not fail to understand the meaning of his son’s dream-vision of future greatness, with the eleven stars symbolizing his brothers, and the sun and the moon his parents. But whereas the Bible quotes the father as “rebuking” his son (Genesis xxxvii 10) in the obvious assumption that the dream was an outcome of wishful thinking, the Qur’ān makes it clear that Jacob – who was himself a prophet – at once realized its prophetic quality and its deeper implications.