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.