Weeping at Nightfall

And they came to their father in the early part of the night, weeping. They were crying. They said: our father, we went racing with one another and left Yūsuf with our belongings, and a wolf devoured him — but you will never believe us, even when we speak the truth.

Once, an old woman came before one of the Muslim judges in a case, and she was crying and crying and crying. The judge ruled against her. A friend of the judge said to him: she was crying so much, she must have been telling the truth — why did you not believe her? He said: did you not read in the Qur'an that the brothers of Yūsuf came to their father at night, crying? Crying is not a sign of innocence. Crying is not a sign of truth. You can cry while you are lying. Here the brothers of Yūsuf came home crying — and they were the ones who had committed the crime.