And thus will your Lord choose you and teach you the interpretation of sayings and make His favor complete to you and to the children of Yaqoub, as He made it complete before to your fathers, Ibrahim and Ishaq; surely your Lord is Knowing, Wise.
Arabic
وكذلك يجتبيك ربك ويعلمك من تأويل الأحاديث ويتم نعمته عليك وعلى آل يعقوب كما أتمها على أبويك من قبل إبراهيم وإسحاق ۚ إن ربك عليم حكيم
When they said: Certainly Yusuf and his brother are dearer to our father than we, though we are a (stronger) company; most surely our father is in manifest error:
Arabic
إذ قالوا ليوسف وأخوه أحب إلى أبينا منا ونحن عصبة إن أبانا لفي ضلال مبين
A speaker from among them said: Do not slay Yusuf, and cast him down into the bottom of the pit if you must do (it), (so that) some of the travellers may pick him up.
Arabic
قال قائل منهم لا تقتلوا يوسف وألقوه في غيابت الجب يلتقطه بعض السيارة إن كنتم فاعلين
So when they had gone off with him and agreed that they should put him down at the bottom of the pit, and We revealed to him: You will most certainly inform them of this their affair while they do not perceive.
Arabic
فلما ذهبوا به وأجمعوا أن يجعلوه في غيابت الجب ۚ وأوحينا إليه لتنبئنهم بأمرهم هذا وهم لا يشعرون
And they came to their father at nightfall, weeping.
Arabic
وجاءوا أباهم عشاء يبكون
Arabic, with marks
وَجَاءُوا أَبَاهُمْ عِشَاءً يَبْكُونَ
Word by word
وَجَآءُوٓ أَبَاهُمْ عِشَآءً يَبْكُونَ
Shakir
They said: O our father! surely we went off racing and left Yusuf by our goods, so the wolf devoured him, and you will not believe us though we are truthful.
Arabic
قالوا يا أبانا إنا ذهبنا نستبق وتركنا يوسف عند متاعنا فأكله الذئب ۖ وما أنت بمؤمن لنا ولو كنا صادقين
And they brought his shirt with false blood upon it. He said: Nay, your souls have made the matter light for you, but patience is good and Allah is He Whose help is sought for against what you describe.
Arabic
وجاءوا على قميصه بدم كذب ۚ قال بل سولت لكم أنفسكم أمرا ۖ فصبر جميل ۖ والله المستعان على ما تصفون
And there came travellers and they sent their water - drawer and he let down his bucket. He said: O good news! this is a youth; and they concealed him as an article of merchandise, and Allah knew what they did.
Arabic
وجاءت سيارة فأرسلوا واردهم فأدلى دلوه ۖ قال يا بشرى هذا غلام ۚ وأسروه بضاعة ۚ والله عليم بما يعملون
And the Egyptian who bought him said to his wife: Give him an honorable abode, maybe he will be useful to us, or we may adopt him as a son. And thus did We establish Yusuf in the land and that We might teach him the interpretation of sayings; and Allah is the master of His affair, but most people do not know.
Arabic
وقال الذي اشتراه من مصر لامرأته أكرمي مثواه عسى أن ينفعنا أو نتخذه ولدا ۚ وكذلك مكنا ليوسف في الأرض ولنعلمه من تأويل الأحاديث ۚ والله غالب على أمره ولكن أكثر الناس لا يعلمون
And she in whose house he was sought to make himself yield (to her), and she made fast the doors and said: Come forward. He said: I seek Allah's refuge, surely my Lord made good my abode: Surely the unjust do not prosper.
Arabic
وراودته التي هو في بيتها عن نفسه وغلقت الأبواب وقالت هيت لك ۚ قال معاذ الله ۖ إنه ربي أحسن مثواي ۖ إنه لا يفلح الظالمون
And certainly she made for him, and he would have made for her, were it not that he had seen the manifest evidence of his Lord; thus (it was) that We might turn away from him evil and indecency, surely he was one of Our sincere servants.
Arabic
ولقد همت به ۖ وهم بها لولا أن رأى برهان ربه ۚ كذلك لنصرف عنه السوء والفحشاء ۚ إنه من عبادنا المخلصين
And they both hastened to the door, and she rent his shirt from behind and they met her husband at the door. She said: What is the punishment of him who intends evil to your wife except imprisonment or a painful chastisement?
Arabic
واستبقا الباب وقدت قميصه من دبر وألفيا سيدها لدى الباب ۚ قالت ما جزاء من أراد بأهلك سوءا إلا أن يسجن أو عذاب أليم
He said: She sought to make me yield (to her); and a witness of her own family bore witness: If his shirt is rent from front, she speaks the truth and he is one of the liars:
Arabic
قال هي راودتني عن نفسي ۚ وشهد شاهد من أهلها إن كان قميصه قد من قبل فصدقت وهو من الكاذبين
And women in the city said: The chiefs wife seeks her slave to yield himself (to her), surely he has affected her deeply with (his) love; most surely we see her in manifest error.
Arabic
۞ وقال نسوة في المدينة امرأت العزيز تراود فتاها عن نفسه ۖ قد شغفها حبا ۖ إنا لنراها في ضلال مبين
So when she heard of their sly talk she sent for them and prepared for them a repast, and gave each of them a knife, and said (to Yusuf): Come forth to them. So when they saw him, they deemed him great, and cut their hands (in amazement), and said: Remote is Allah (from imperfection); this is not a mortal; this is but a noble angel.
Arabic
فلما سمعت بمكرهن أرسلت إليهن وأعتدت لهن متكأ وآتت كل واحدة منهن سكينا وقالت اخرج عليهن ۖ فلما رأينه أكبرنه وقطعن أيديهن وقلن حاش لله ما هذا بشرا إن هذا إلا ملك كريم
She said: This is he with respect to whom you blamed me, and certainly I sought his yielding himself (to me), but he abstained, and if he does not do what I bid him, he shall certainly be imprisoned, and he shall certainly be of those who are in a state of ignominy.
Arabic
قالت فذلكن الذي لمتنني فيه ۖ ولقد راودته عن نفسه فاستعصم ۖ ولئن لم يفعل ما آمره ليسجنن وليكونا من الصاغرين
He said: My Lord! the prison house is dearer to me than that to which they invite me; and if Thou turn not away their device from me, I will yearn towards them and become (one) of the ignorant.
Arabic
قال رب السجن أحب إلي مما يدعونني إليه ۖ وإلا تصرف عني كيدهن أصب إليهن وأكن من الجاهلين
And two youths entered the prison with him. One of them said: I saw myself pressing wine. And the other said: I saw myself carrying bread on my head, of which birds ate. Inform us of its interpretation; surely we see you to be of the doers of good.
Arabic
ودخل معه السجن فتيان ۖ قال أحدهما إني أراني أعصر خمرا ۖ وقال الآخر إني أراني أحمل فوق رأسي خبزا تأكل الطير منه ۖ نبئنا بتأويله ۖ إنا نراك من المحسنين
He said: There shall not come to you the food with which you are fed, but I will inform you both of its interpretation before it comes to you; this is of what my Lord has taught me; surely I have forsaken the religion of a people who do not believe in Allah, and they are deniers of the hereafter:
Arabic
قال لا يأتيكما طعام ترزقانه إلا نبأتكما بتأويله قبل أن يأتيكما ۚ ذلكما مما علمني ربي ۚ إني تركت ملة قوم لا يؤمنون بالله وهم بالآخرة هم كافرون
And I follow the religion of my fathers, Ibrahim and Ishaq and Yaqoub; it beseems us not that we should associate aught with Allah; this is by Allah's grace upon us and on mankind, but most people do not give thanks:
Arabic
واتبعت ملة آبائي إبراهيم وإسحاق ويعقوب ۚ ما كان لنا أن نشرك بالله من شيء ۚ ذلك من فضل الله علينا وعلى الناس ولكن أكثر الناس لا يشكرون
You do not serve besides Him but names which you have named, you and your fathers; Allah has not sent down any authority for them; judgment is only Allah's; He has commanded that you shall not serve aught but Him; this is the right religion but most people do not know:
Arabic
ما تعبدون من دونه إلا أسماء سميتموها أنتم وآباؤكم ما أنزل الله بها من سلطان ۚ إن الحكم إلا لله ۚ أمر ألا تعبدوا إلا إياه ۚ ذلك الدين القيم ولكن أكثر الناس لا يعلمون
O my two mates of the prison! as for one of you, he shall give his lord to drink wine; and as for the other, he shall be crucified, so that the birds shall eat from his head, the matter is decreed concerning which you inquired.
Arabic
يا صاحبي السجن أما أحدكما فيسقي ربه خمرا ۖ وأما الآخر فيصلب فتأكل الطير من رأسه ۚ قضي الأمر الذي فيه تستفتيان
And he said to him whom he knew would be delivered of the two: Remember me with your lord; but the Shaitan caused him to forget mentioning (it) to his lord, so he remained in the prison a few years.
Arabic
وقال للذي ظن أنه ناج منهما اذكرني عند ربك فأنساه الشيطان ذكر ربه فلبث في السجن بضع سنين
And the king said: Surely I see seven fat kine which seven lean ones devoured; and seven green ears and (seven) others dry: O chiefs! explain to me my dream, if you can interpret the dream.
Arabic
وقال الملك إني أرى سبع بقرات سمان يأكلهن سبع عجاف وسبع سنبلات خضر وأخر يابسات ۖ يا أيها الملأ أفتوني في رؤياي إن كنتم للرؤيا تعبرون
Yusuf! O truthful one! explain to us seven fat kine which seven lean ones devoured, and seven green ears and (seven) others dry, that I may go back to the people so that they may know.
Arabic
يوسف أيها الصديق أفتنا في سبع بقرات سمان يأكلهن سبع عجاف وسبع سنبلات خضر وأخر يابسات لعلي أرجع إلى الناس لعلهم يعلمون
Then there shall come after that seven years of hardship which shall eat away all that you have beforehand laid up in store for them, except a little of what you shall have preserved:
Arabic
ثم يأتي من بعد ذلك سبع شداد يأكلن ما قدمتم لهن إلا قليلا مما تحصنون
And the king said: Bring him to me. So when the messenger came to him, he said: Go back to your lord and ask him, what is the case of the women who cut their hands; surely my Lord knows their guile.
Arabic
وقال الملك ائتوني به ۖ فلما جاءه الرسول قال ارجع إلى ربك فاسأله ما بال النسوة اللاتي قطعن أيديهن ۚ إن ربي بكيدهن عليم
He said: How was your affair when you sought Yusuf to yield himself (to you)? They said: Remote is Allah (from imperfection), we knew of no evil on his part. The chief's wife said: Now has the truth become established: I sought him to yield himself (to me), and he is most surely of the truthful ones.
Arabic
قال ما خطبكن إذ راودتن يوسف عن نفسه ۚ قلن حاش لله ما علمنا عليه من سوء ۚ قالت امرأت العزيز الآن حصحص الحق أنا راودته عن نفسه وإنه لمن الصادقين
And I do not declare myself free, most surely (man's) self is wont to command (him to do) evil, except such as my Lord has had mercy on, surely my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.
Arabic
۞ وما أبرئ نفسي ۚ إن النفس لأمارة بالسوء إلا ما رحم ربي ۚ إن ربي غفور رحيم
And the king said: Bring him to me, I will choose him for myself. So when he had spoken with him, he said: Surely you are in our presence today an honorable, a faithful one.
Arabic
وقال الملك ائتوني به أستخلصه لنفسي ۖ فلما كلمه قال إنك اليوم لدينا مكين أمين
And thus did We give to Yusuf power in the land - - he had mastery in it wherever he liked; We send down Our mercy on whom We please, and We do not waste the reward of those who do good.
Arabic
وكذلك مكنا ليوسف في الأرض يتبوأ منها حيث يشاء ۚ نصيب برحمتنا من نشاء ۖ ولا نضيع أجر المحسنين
And when he furnished them with their provision, he said: Bring to me a brother of yours from your father; do you not see that I give full measure and that I am the best of hosts?
Arabic
ولما جهزهم بجهازهم قال ائتوني بأخ لكم من أبيكم ۚ ألا ترون أني أوفي الكيل وأنا خير المنزلين
So when they returned to their father, they said: O our father, the measure is withheld from us, therefore send with us our brother, (so that) we may get the measure, and we will most surely guard him.
Arabic
فلما رجعوا إلى أبيهم قالوا يا أبانا منع منا الكيل فأرسل معنا أخانا نكتل وإنا له لحافظون
He said: I cannot trust in you with respect to him, except as I trusted in you with respect to his brother before; but Allah is the best Keeper, and He is the most Merciful of the merciful ones.
Arabic
قال هل آمنكم عليه إلا كما أمنتكم على أخيه من قبل ۖ فالله خير حافظا ۖ وهو أرحم الراحمين
And when they opened their goods, they found their money returned to them. They said: O our father! what (more) can we desire? This is our property returned to us, and we will bring corn for our family and guard our brother, and will have in addition the measure of a camel (load); this is an easy measure.
Arabic
ولما فتحوا متاعهم وجدوا بضاعتهم ردت إليهم ۖ قالوا يا أبانا ما نبغي ۖ هذه بضاعتنا ردت إلينا ۖ ونمير أهلنا ونحفظ أخانا ونزداد كيل بعير ۖ ذلك كيل يسير
He said: I will by no means send him with you until you give me a firm covenant in Allah's name that you will most certainly bring him back to me, unless you are completely surrounded. And when they gave him their covenant, he said: Allah is the One in Whom trust is placed as regards what we say.
Arabic
قال لن أرسله معكم حتى تؤتون موثقا من الله لتأتنني به إلا أن يحاط بكم ۖ فلما آتوه موثقهم قال الله على ما نقول وكيل
And he said: O my sons! do not (all) enter by one gate and enter by different gates and I cannot avail you aught against Allah; judgment is only Allah's; on Him do I rely, and on Him let those who are reliant rely.
Arabic
وقال يا بني لا تدخلوا من باب واحد وادخلوا من أبواب متفرقة ۖ وما أغني عنكم من الله من شيء ۖ إن الحكم إلا لله ۖ عليه توكلت ۖ وعليه فليتوكل المتوكلون
And when they had entered as their father had bidden them, it did not avail them aught against Allah, but (it was only) a desire in the soul of Yaqoub which he satisfied; and surely he was possessed of knowledge because We had given him knowledge, but most people do not know.
Arabic
ولما دخلوا من حيث أمرهم أبوهم ما كان يغني عنهم من الله من شيء إلا حاجة في نفس يعقوب قضاها ۚ وإنه لذو علم لما علمناه ولكن أكثر الناس لا يعلمون
So when he furnished them with their provisions, (someone) placed the drinking cup in his brother's bag. Then a crier cried out: O caravan! you are most surely thieves.
Arabic
فلما جهزهم بجهازهم جعل السقاية في رحل أخيه ثم أذن مؤذن أيتها العير إنكم لسارقون
They said: The requital of this is that the person in whose bag it is found shall himself be (held for) the satisfaction thereof; thus do we punish the wrongdoers.
Arabic
قالوا جزاؤه من وجد في رحله فهو جزاؤه ۚ كذلك نجزي الظالمين
So he began with their sacks before the sack of his brother, then he brought it out from his brother's sack. Thus did We plan for the sake of Yusuf; it was not (lawful) that he should take his brother under the king's law unless Allah pleased; We raise the degrees of whomsoever We please, and above every one possessed of knowledge is the All - knowing one.
Arabic
فبدأ بأوعيتهم قبل وعاء أخيه ثم استخرجها من وعاء أخيه ۚ كذلك كدنا ليوسف ۖ ما كان ليأخذ أخاه في دين الملك إلا أن يشاء الله ۚ نرفع درجات من نشاء ۗ وفوق كل ذي علم عليم
They said: If he steal, a brother of his did indeed steal before; but Yusuf kept it secret in his heart and did not disclose it to them. He said: You are in an evil condition and Allah knows best what you state.
Arabic
۞ قالوا إن يسرق فقد سرق أخ له من قبل ۚ فأسرها يوسف في نفسه ولم يبدها لهم ۚ قال أنتم شر مكانا ۖ والله أعلم بما تصفون
Then when they despaired of him, they retired, conferring privately together. The eldest of them said: Do you not know that your father took from you a covenant in Allah's name, and how you fell short of your duty with respect to Yusuf before? Therefore I will by no means depart from this land until my father permits me or Allah decides for me, and He is the best of the judges:
Arabic
فلما استيأسوا منه خلصوا نجيا ۖ قال كبيرهم ألم تعلموا أن أباكم قد أخذ عليكم موثقا من الله ومن قبل ما فرطتم في يوسف ۖ فلن أبرح الأرض حتى يأذن لي أبي أو يحكم الله لي ۖ وهو خير الحاكمين
Go back to your father and say: O our father! surely your son committed theft, and we do not bear witness except to what we have known, and we could not keep watch over the unseen:
Arabic
ارجعوا إلى أبيكم فقولوا يا أبانا إن ابنك سرق وما شهدنا إلا بما علمنا وما كنا للغيب حافظين
He (Yaqoub) said: Nay, your souls have made a matter light for you, so patience is good; maybe Allah will bring them all together to me; surely He is the Knowing, the Wise.
Arabic
قال بل سولت لكم أنفسكم أمرا ۖ فصبر جميل ۖ عسى الله أن يأتيني بهم جميعا ۚ إنه هو العليم الحكيم
O my sons! Go and inquire respecting Yusuf and his brother, and despair not of Allah's mercy; surely none despairs of Allah's mercy except the unbelieving people.
Arabic
يا بني اذهبوا فتحسسوا من يوسف وأخيه ولا تيأسوا من روح الله ۖ إنه لا ييأس من روح الله إلا القوم الكافرون
So when they came in to him, they said: O chief! distress has afflicted us and our family and we have brought scanty money, so give us full measure and be charitable to us; surely Allah rewards the charitable.
Arabic
فلما دخلوا عليه قالوا يا أيها العزيز مسنا وأهلنا الضر وجئنا ببضاعة مزجاة فأوف لنا الكيل وتصدق علينا ۖ إن الله يجزي المتصدقين
They said: Are you indeed Yusuf? He said: I am Yusuf and this is my brother; Allah has indeed been gracious to us; surely he who guards (against evil) and is patient (is rewarded) for surely Allah does not waste the reward of those who do good.
Arabic
قالوا أإنك لأنت يوسف ۖ قال أنا يوسف وهذا أخي ۖ قد من الله علينا ۖ إنه من يتق ويصبر فإن الله لا يضيع أجر المحسنين
So when the bearer of good news came he cast it on his face, so forthwith he regained his sight. He said: Did I not say to you that I know from Allah what you do not know?
Arabic
فلما أن جاء البشير ألقاه على وجهه فارتد بصيرا ۖ قال ألم أقل لكم إني أعلم من الله ما لا تعلمون
And he raised his parents upon the throne and they fell down in prostration before him, and he said: O my father! this is the significance of my vision of old; my Lord has indeed made it to be true; and He was indeed kind to me when He brought me forth from the prison and brought you from the desert after the Shaitan had sown dissensions between me and my brothers, surely my Lord is benignant to whom He pleases; surely He is the Knowing, the Wise.
Arabic
ورفع أبويه على العرش وخروا له سجدا ۖ وقال يا أبت هذا تأويل رؤياي من قبل قد جعلها ربي حقا ۖ وقد أحسن بي إذ أخرجني من السجن وجاء بكم من البدو من بعد أن نزغ الشيطان بيني وبين إخوتي ۚ إن ربي لطيف لما يشاء ۚ إنه هو العليم الحكيم
My Lord! Thou hast given me of the kingdom and taught me of the interpretation of sayings: Originator of the heavens and the earth! Thou art my guardian in this world and the hereafter; make me die a muslim and join me with the good.
Arabic
۞ رب قد آتيتني من الملك وعلمتني من تأويل الأحاديث ۚ فاطر السماوات والأرض أنت وليي في الدنيا والآخرة ۖ توفني مسلما وألحقني بالصالحين
This is of the announcements relating to the unseen (which) We reveal to you, and you were not with them when they resolved upon their affair, and they were devising plans.
Arabic
ذلك من أنباء الغيب نوحيه إليك ۖ وما كنت لديهم إذ أجمعوا أمرهم وهم يمكرون
Do they then feel secure that there may come to them an extensive chastisement from Allah or (that) the hour may come to them suddenly while they do not perceive?
Arabic
أفأمنوا أن تأتيهم غاشية من عذاب الله أو تأتيهم الساعة بغتة وهم لا يشعرون
And We have not sent before you but men from (among) the people of the towns, to whom We sent revelations. Have they not then travelled in the land and seen what was the end of those before them? And certainly the abode of the hereafter is best for those who guard (against evil); do you not then understand?
Arabic
وما أرسلنا من قبلك إلا رجالا نوحي إليهم من أهل القرى ۗ أفلم يسيروا في الأرض فينظروا كيف كان عاقبة الذين من قبلهم ۗ ولدار الآخرة خير للذين اتقوا ۗ أفلا تعقلون
Until when the apostles despaired and the people became sure that they were indeed told a lie, Our help came to them and whom We pleased was delivered; and Our punishment is not averted from the guilty people.
Arabic
حتى إذا استيأس الرسل وظنوا أنهم قد كذبوا جاءهم نصرنا فنجي من نشاء ۖ ولا يرد بأسنا عن القوم المجرمين
In their histories there is certainly a lesson for men of understanding. It is not a narrative which could be forged, but a verification of what is before it and a distinct explanation of all things and a guide and a mercy to a people who believe.
Arabic
لقد كان في قصصهم عبرة لأولي الألباب ۗ ما كان حديثا يفترى ولكن تصديق الذي بين يديه وتفصيل كل شيء وهدى ورحمة لقوم يؤمنون