Take my shirt and put it on my father's face; his eyesight will be restored; and bring your entire family to me."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (go with this shirt of mine) and his shirt was from paradise (and lay it on my father's face, he will become (again) a seer) he will regain his sight; (and come to me with all your folk) they were about seventy people.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : he [joseph] asked them about his father; and they told him that his eyesight had gone. and so he said: go with this shirt of mine — and this was the shirt of abraham, the one he wore when he was thrown into the fire; he [joseph] had it around his neck when he was at the bottom of the well. it [the shirt] had come from paradise: gabriel commanded him [joseph] to send it off [to jacob] saying that the scent of paradise lingers in it, and whenever it is cast upon a sufferer, it heals him — and lay it on my father’s face, and he will recover his sight; and bring me all your folk’.
