Egyptian women cut their hands in iFilm’s ‘Prophet Joseph’

Egyptian women cut their hands in iFilm English TV’s historical series ‘Prophet Joseph’.

Joseph is bought as a slave by an Egyptian high official, whose wife—Zulaykhā—makes an unsuccessful attempt to seduce him, and is ridiculed by her peers for her failure to do so.

She invites them to a banquet, hands them knives, and presents Joseph before them. Upon seeing him, the women cut their hands with the knives they are holding.

The women were stunned by Joseph’s beauty. The women, dazzled by Joseph’s beauty, thought that they were using knives to cut something like fruit, but accidentally cut their hands.

Don't miss the seventeenth episode of the 45-part series on iFilm TV tonight at 23:00 GMT and you can watch it now via the channel’s website.

Made by the late Farajollah Salahshour, the series is the Iranian version of the very beloved story of Prophet Joseph, the son of Prophet Jacob who guided the Israelites to pray to the One and Only God.

“God annunciates to him about the next prophet, who will be from his own generation. One night, his son, Joseph, dreams about the sun, the moon and eleven stars which kneel in front of him. He tells Jacob, who advises him not to tell his brothers about the dream,” comes as a synopsis of the series by iFilm English website.

Prophet Joseph is dear to Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. For centuries, the story of his life has been told over and over in many different ways and in many different languages.

Notable on the cast list are Mostafa Zamani, Jafar Dehqan, Mahmoud Pakniyyat, Jahanbakhsh Soltani, Elham Hamidi, and Rahim Norouzi.

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