The one who raised his parents upon the throne is our master Yusuf, and the phrase points via a hidden allusion—if I do not say a clear one—to the saying of the Exalted in Surah Maryam concerning His prophet Idris: [“And We raised him to a high station.”] ¹

The father of Yusuf and his brothers prostrated to him. And does a prophet prostrate except to one who is more exalted than him? And there is none more exalted than the prophet except Allah, according to the belief of all religious sects. In the event we were to say that the prostration of his parents and his brothers to him was by way of obedience and esteem, for example, the truth replies to us with the invalidity of this statement from two aspects: