Qala sawfa astaghfiru lakum rabbee innahu huwa alghafooru alrraheemu
English
Ahmed Ali
"I will ask my Lord to forgive you," he replied, "for He is forgiving and kind."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (he said) to them: (i shall ask forgiveness for you of my lord) i will pray to allah for you on the night of friday, at the end of dawn. (he is the forgiving, the merciful) towards those who repent.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : he said, ‘assuredly i shall ask forgiveness for you of my lord. lo! he is the forgiving, the merciful’: he [jacob] put off this [plea of forgiveness] until [the last hour] before dawn, in order to be closer to [the likelihood of] it being accepted, or [he put it off] until the eve of friday. they then departed for egypt, where joseph and the senior courtiers came out to meet them.
