Joseph and Zulaikha story criticism: Difference Between Male and Female Psychology!
These days, IRIB is broadcasting a movie serial about Joseph (Yusuf), called “Joseph, the Prophet”.
It’s the story of Joseph, a man who is known as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Many have also tried to find him in pharaohs’ dynasties as a real person, but haven’t been much successful. Many have attributed Yuya, the courtier of eighteen dynasty of Egypt to Joseph. Although he has many characteristics of Joseph but there are some impediments which won’t let to conceive him as Joseph.
But it’s not what I wanted to mention. In this story we learn about Zulaikha affections toward Joseph and her efforts to sedu.ce him which fails. After this story being revealed all around the empire, and everyone condemned Zulaikha, she manages a fest with noble women being invited in to justify herself. She gives each an orange and lets the Joseph to reveal himself. Here all the women cut their hands since they can’t prevent looking at him.
I’m not a girl, nor a relationship expert. But I know the different chemistry of affections in two genders of male and female. These are different. Women can’t fall in love instantly and become insane by just seeing a male! It’s not important how beautiful he may be, but that’s not the way a woman falls in love. Maybe she likes his beauty and confirms it in an instant observation, but cant becomes spelled and so much fascinated, falling in love.
This love (by observation) just exists in male gender. We all know many stories about men who are fascinated in a woman instantly by observation and they crash the car, bang to the wall, fall in canal and can’t help themselves. If you’re a male, there’s no usage for more explanation. For example listen to James Blunt great song ‘You’re Beautiful’, which describes a particular falling in love situation: seeing a beautiful woman in street with his man passing by and falling in love with her!
It’s hard to believe for a woman to conceive that many women in this story have fallen in love in this manner (if you’re a man, you can’t understand it, so don’t dispute). These attractions work just for men whom are evolutionary, physiologically and psychologically different.
Then one may conclude this story (Joseph and Zulaikha) has been written by a male or who hasn’t been aware of female psychology! What do you think?
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… Or it could be that he was REALLY REALLY REALLY handsome?
A woman understands the implications of love: hopefully a lifetime comittment to the marriage, and to her kids. She wants to build her nest. She’s not about to fall in love just with a pretty face. A man, on the other hand, thinks with another part of his anatomy, and a pretty face might just do the trick. That’s why I say that if you empower women in ways that they deem appropriate, you will have changed the face of the world. Women, for the most part, just seem to make more sense.
Nissim, you see, women cant trap in trick of beautiness! Thanks
to Soggy:
Necessarily No!
I don’t know people…
Generally I would say you were right (Although us guys aren’t that bad
)… But isn’t the point of Hazrat Yusuf’s beauty that he was amazingly beautiful? As in ethereal beauty?
Really,what is the diference between male and female?
Nonsense, yes a woman can fall in love in an instant, just looking at a man! If it is real love then or passion is an other question.
i came to your story because i am looking for the sufi version of the zuleikha and yusuf story, can you help me to that?
the male can fall instantly in love cause of evolutionary (dna) just cant help himself, is bogus and an excuse of centuries, from beginning of time, being allowed (their right) to behave however they may chose towards female because they are dominent and we are submissive.
no i do not agree that a male is so out of control. and no i do not agree that a female is not as capable of allowing looks to override her thinking brain or emotion.
i think your assumptions perpetuate the free for all male behavior with excuses and keeps females in their place.
i dont think that means that females should adopt males way. but i dont agree they are not capable of behaving just like the males.
Lord, who says those women fell in love with Josef!!!!? I really can’t understand why jumping in to the word LOVE and by passing many other affections. Haven’t you ever encountered or been told about an instant reaction to an extraordinary or outstanding scene? Very well known among people.
In Neuroscience it’s called the “Dissociative Reaction”, it’s very complicated, but simply it’s a disturbance of some of the neurological functions usually by an external stimulus. It has some clinical applications including performing some minor procedures under it’s effect. There is no gender differance in being susceptable to it. Anyway, love is a too faraway understanding, nobody should fall in love to have this reaction.
It was said that Yusuf was so amazingly beautiful, like not something you would commonly see. According to stories, Women cut their hands whilst trying to cut a lemon just by seeing his beauty. Now no one could judge because you couldn’t know how beautiful he must have been. Look at models and celebrities, with only passable looks, Women go crazy for them. Stalking them constantly, obsessing about them. Now imagine if it was someone who was 50 Billion times more beautiful that even stories and movies and versions have never failed to mention just how beautiful he was.
You cant just differentiate Males and Females and comment how Females cannot fall in love instantly like Men do. You said your not a girl so you cant really judge a womans feelings or perspective. Love happens when it does, so Zulaikha happened to fall in love with Yusof in a more obsessive manner.
Dear Sanyana,
No one doubt in Zulaikha’s obsessive-manner love in Joseph and I didnt say there’s doubt!
I said those women in ceremony couldnt fall in love and cut their hands. This does not work for women.
You said celebrity; ok then; which one do you mean? Johnny Depp? Antonio Banderas? Nocolas Cage, Travelta, or Brad Pitt? Which one?
Absolutely ever girl dies for celebrities, but Joseph wasnt a celebrity! You consider a very beautiful man passing you by in street; So based on your opinion, you should fall in love and cut your hand if you have an apple and a knife in your hands. Do you?
Alsolutely not. Thats why I say those women could fall in love and cut their hands when they saw Joseph for the first time. Thats why God didnt know how female psychology is!
Alsolutely not. Thats why I say those women could NOT fall in love and cut their hands when they saw Joseph for the first time. And thats why God didnt know how female psychology is!
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u havent read the background.
u dont know
see abdullah yusuf ali;s commentary,
she was a very good charactered lady and loved Allah
and then what happened was she wished to marry a good man
with a sound character.
then she saw a dream that told her to marry a guy named wazir of egypt. she was shown Yusuf AS.
so she the princess zulaikha. she was european/ asiatic-european or something dont know.
so she took time to fall in love with this man. and it wasnt just his beauty we talk about here.
it was his character.immaculate character. and already all of egypt when he came people even from other areas were talking about this man.
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i agree with you that females don’t fall in love or even like men easly but when we talk about aprophet like juosive we can’t deny that aman like that is n’t under this rules thats some thing speacial and women can’t stand for it’s wonderful beauty & it’s holyness.
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