In this poem, poet has depicted the eastern ideology of life with help of Yussouf's characters yussouf is painted as a saint. The poem is a dramatical form. There are dialogues between the characters for example yussouf and Ibrahim.
The poem starts with Ibrahim coming to doors of Yussouf's at mid night. He does not his name but introduced his self as criminal escape from the law aand asked for the shelter. Youssouf welcome him and comfort him by saying that it is not his own tent. It is God's house. So, the guest can use it freely. This shows how 'selfless youssouf is. He comes a criminal and behave with him kindly without any fear or dislike.
There is a fine metaphor in this second stanza in which day and night are thought to be the roof over the houses. This metaphor surf well to the grand image of youssouf in the poem.
The third stanza revival how youssouf took great care of his guest. While he gave some gold to the guest for his journey and also arranged for a swift horse. The stanza ends with the seminal thought of the poem for example: nobleness enkindle nobleness as indicated in third stanza. The fourth stanza revival how youssouf's nobleness in the heart of Ibrahim. Ibrahim in this stanza revival his true identity confessing his crime. He tells youssouf that he is killer of Yussouf's son. This he has confessed in order to "repay" youssouf kindness as to selflessly confessing the crime. Youssouf nobleness transform a criminal into a self conquered man.
The last stanza is the representation of Yussouf's spiritual gifts well. Youssouf come to know that his guest is no one else but his son's killer he does not become instead he offer all the more saying that Ibrahim transformation is Yussouf's victory in accenting Ibrahim as youssouf says along with the death of the criminal in Ibrahim his own desire to avenge has died. So, in fact with a changed heart Ibrahim has made youssouf free from negative thoughts of grief or revenge.
The entire poem presents the simple way of saint. It celebrate the joy of nobleness and inspires as for saintly virtues of forgiveness nobleness selfless.