The Prophet Yusuf (peace be upon him)/Joseph had a prophecy in the form of a dream, in which he sees the sun, moon, and eleven stars bowing to him. This dream prophesised that his father (sun), mother (moon), eleven brothers (eleven stars) would bow to him.
Both, the Bible and the Quran mention Prophet Joseph’s dream, but the Biblical account contains an error which leaves the prophecy unfulfilled.

“(Remember) when Yusuf (Joseph) said to his father: “O my
father! Verily, I saw (in a dream) eleven stars and the sun
and the moon, I saw them prostrating themselves to me.”
[Quran 12:4]
“Then he (Joseph) had another dream, and he told it to his
brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this
time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
[Genesis 37:9]

The Quran mentions this dream at the beginning of Chapter named
“Joseph”, and shows how it was fulfilled at the end of the story.
The Bible, however, mentions the dream, but never shows that
it was a fulfilled prophecy. The reason why the Bible is not
able to fulfill this dream is due to an error, where the mother
of Jospeh supposedly died when she bore Benyameen/Benjamin.

“And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the
midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have another
son.” As she breathed her last–for she was dying–she named
her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin. So Rachel
died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
[Genesis 35:17-19]

Rachel is the mother of Joseph and Benjamin; she died two
chapters before Joseph had his dream.
The Quran never says that she died, the proof for that is at
the end of the story where Yusef raises both of his parents
on his throne:
“And he raised his parents to the throne and they fell down
before him prostrate. And he said: “O my father! This is the
interpretation of my dream aforetime! My Lord has made it come
true! He was indeed good to me, when He took me out of the prison,
and brought you (all here) out of the bedouin-life, after Shaitan
(Satan) had sown enmity between me and my brothers. Certainly, my
Lord is the Most Courteous and Kind unto whom He will. Truly He!
Only He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.”[Quran 12:100]

Bible writers make a mistake when they claim that Joseph’s mother
died before the adventures of Joseph happened. The Quran ends this
kind of falsehood which might have been injected to the Bible
intentionally or unintentionally, and corrects the Bible:
1) Jospeh’s dream was a perfect prophecy.
2) His mother never died after giving birth to Benyameen.
3) The dream was fulfilled when his father (The Sun) and
his mother (the Moon) and his eleven brothers (stars)
bowed down to him.

Therefore, the Quran compliments and corrects the Bible
errors. Joseph’s dream is nothing but one of many other
examples of how the Quran corrects the Bible.

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