Verse. 1668

١٢ - يُوسُف

12 - Yusuf

قَالُوْا نَفْقِدُ صُوَاعَ الْمَلِكِ وَلِمَنْ جَاۗءَ بِہٖ حِمْلُ بَعِيْرٍ وَّاَنَا بِہٖ زَعِيْمٌ۝۷۲
Qaloo nafqidu suwaAAa almaliki waliman jaa bihi himlu baAAeerin waana bihi zaAAeemun

English

Ahmed Ali

"We cannot find the master's goblet. Whoever comes up with it will be given a camel-load of grain; I vouch for it."

72

Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (they said: we have lost) we are looking for (the king's cup) in which he drinks and also uses for measurement. this cup is made of gold and i am being accused of stealing it, (and he who bringeth it shall have a camel load, and i (said joseph) am answerable for it) i guarantee a camel load for him. all this was said by the youth whom joseph had sent after his brothers.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : they said, ‘we are missing the king’s goblet, [his] cup. and he who brings it shall have a camel’s load, of food [supplies], and i will guarantee that’, the [camel’s] load.