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Alif.
Lam. Ra. These are verses of the Scripture that makes plain. |
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Lo!
We have revealed it, a Lecture in Arabic, that you may understand. |
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We
narrate unto you (Muhammad)
the best of narratives in that We have inspired in you this Qur-an,
though aforetime you wast of the heedless. |
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When
Joseph {Yusuf}
said unto his father: O my father! Lo! I saw in a dream eleven planets
and the sun and the moon, I saw them prostrating themselves unto me. |
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He
said: O my dear son! Tell not your brethren of your vision, lest they
plot a plot against you. Lo! Satan is for man an open foe. |
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Thus
your Lord will prefer you and will teach you the interpretation of
events, and will perfect his grace upon you and upon the family of
Jacob {Ya'qub}
as he perfected it upon your forefathers, Abraham {Ibrahim}
and Isaac. Lo! your Lord is Knower, Wise. |
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Verily
in Joseph {Yusuf}
and his brethren are signs (of
Allah's Sovereignty) for the
inquiring. |
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When
they said: Verily Joseph {Yusuf}
and his brother are dearer to our father than we are, many though
we be. Lo! our father is in plain aberration. |
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(One
said): Kill Joseph {Yusuf}
or cast him to some (other)
land, so that your father's favor may be all for you, and
(that)
you may afterward be righteous folk. |
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One
among them said: Kill not Joseph {Yusuf}
but, if you must be doing, fling him into the depth of the pit; some
caravan will find him. |
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They
said: O our father! Why will you not trust us with Joseph {Yusuf},
when lo! we are good friends to him? |
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Send
him with us tomorrow that he may enjoy himself and play. And lo! we
shall take good care of him. |
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He
said: Lo! in truth it saddens me that you should take him with you,
and I fear lest the wolf devour him while you are heedless of him. |
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They
said: If the wolf should devour him when we are (so
strong) a band, then surely
we should have already perished. |
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Then,
when they led him off, and were of one mind that they should place
him in the depth of the pit, We inspired in him: You will tell them
of this deed of theirs when they know (you)
not. |
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And
they came weeping to their father in the evening. |
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Saying:
O our father! We went racing one with another, and left Joseph
{Yusuf}
by our things, and the wolf devoured him, and you believ not our sayings
even when we speak the truth. |
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And
they came with false blood on his shirt. He said: Nay, but your minds
have beguiled you into something. (My
course is) comely patience.
And Allah it is whose help is to be sought in that (predicament)
which you describe. |
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And
there came a caravan, and they sent their water-drawer. He let down
his pail (into the pit).
He said: Good luck! Here is a youth. And they hid him as a treasure,
and Allah was Aware {Al-'Alim}
of what they did. |
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And
they sold him for a low price, a number of silver coins; and they
attached no value to him. |
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And
he of Egypt who purchased him said unto his wife: Receive him honorably.
Perchance he may prove useful to us or we may adopt him as a son.
Thus We established Joseph {Yusuf}
in the land that We might teach him the interpretation of events.
And Allah was predominant in his career, but most of mankind know
not. |
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And
when he reached his prime We gave him wisdom and knowledge. Thus We
reward the good. |
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And
she, in whose house he was, asked of him an evil act. She bolted the
doors and said: Come! He said: I seek refuge in Allah! Lo! he is my
lord, who has treated me honorably. Wrong- doers never prosper. |
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She
verily desired him, and he would have desired her if it had not been
that he saw the argument of his lord. Thus it was, that We might ward
off from him evil and lewdness. Lo! he was of Our chosen slaves. |
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And
they raced with one another to the door, and she tore his shirt from
behind, and they met her lord and master at the door. She said: What
shall be his reward, who wishes evil to your folk, save prison or
a painful doom? |
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(Joseph
{Yusuf}) said: She it was who
asked of me an evil act. And in witness of her own folk testified:
If his shirt is torn from before, then she speakes truth and he is
of the liars. |
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And
if his shirt is torn from behind, then she has lied and he is of the
truthful. |
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So
when he saw his shirt torn from behind, he said: Lo! this is of the
guile of you women. Lo! the guile of you is very great. |
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O
Joseph {Yusuf}!
Turn away from this, and thou,
(O woman), ask forgiveness for
your sin. Lo! you are of the sinful. |
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And
women in the city said: The ruler's wife is asking of her slave boy
an ill deed. Indeed he has smitten her to the heart with love. We
behold her in plain aberration. |
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