Timeline for Why did the women in Sura 12.30-31 cut their hands when they saw how "beautiful" Joseph was?
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| Sep 29, 2016 at 9:31 | comment | added | Noor | The historical film series "Prophet Joseph", gives you a good inside into the whole story. The scene about the banqueting you can find in part 17. previous.ifilmtv.com/English/Serie/197/#.V-zfQSTo5QI | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 0:39 | comment | added | Butterfly and Bones | Thank you!! I think you're right because my translation did not include those details that you had! Thanks for clarifying that for me! Makes much more sense now! | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 0:37 | vote | accept | Butterfly and Bones | ||
| Sep 23, 2016 at 0:37 | comment | added | user19208 | it can be an allegory that they "hurt" themselves exalting to his beauty. Many explain it as you said: they were exalting to his beauty and hurt themselves with their knife. Note that the Quran does precise that the woman handed to them knives. | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 0:30 | history | edited | user19208 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2016 at 0:29 | comment | added | Butterfly and Bones | Okay! Great! I understand the banquet part now -- so they can see for themselves how tempting he is. But I'm still a bit lost about the knives/cutting. Is it like "pinch me if this is real" sort of thing or is it that they were so distracted by his beauty that they weren't paying attention to what/how they were eating with their knives? | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 0:27 | history | answered | user19208 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |