Verse. 1607

١٢ - يُوسُف

12 - Yusuf

قَالُوْا يٰۗاَبَانَا مَالَكَ لَا تَاْمَنَّا عَلٰي يُوْسُفَ وَاِنَّا لَہٗ لَنٰصِحُوْنَ۝۱۱
Qaloo ya abana ma laka la tamanna AAala yoosufa wainna lahu lanasihoona

English

Ahmed Ali

(Then going to their father) they said: "O father, why don't you trust us with Joseph? We are in fact his well-wishers.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : then they went to their father, (they said) to their father: (o our father! why wilt thou not trust us with joseph, when lo! we are good friends to him) we will protect him?

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : they said, ‘o father, what is wrong with you that you do not trust us with joseph? we are indeed his well-wishers, we are indeed only looking out for his best interests.