Verse. 4167

٤٠ - غَافِر

40 - Ghafir

وَلَقَدْ جَاۗءَكُمْ يُوْسُفُ مِنْ قَبْلُ بِالْبَيِّنٰتِ فَمَازِلْتُمْ فِيْ شَكٍّ مِّمَّا جَاۗءَكُمْ بِہٖ۝۰ۭ حَتّٰۗي اِذَا ہَلَكَ قُلْتُمْ لَنْ يَّبْعَثَ اللہُ مِنْۢ بَعْدِہٖ رَسُوْلًا۝۰ۭ كَذٰلِكَ يُضِلُّ اللہُ مَنْ ہُوَ مُسْرِفٌ مُّرْتَابُۨ۝۳۴ۚۖ
Walaqad jaakum yoosufu min qablu bialbayyinati fama ziltum fee shakkin mimma jaakum bihi hatta itha halaka qultum lan yabAAatha Allahu min baAAdihi rasoolan kathalika yudillu Allahu man huwa musrifun murtabun

English

Ahmed Ali

Joseph had indeed come to you before with clear proofs, but you did not cease to doubt what he had brought until he died, when you said: 'God will not send a prophet after him.' That is how God leads the waster, the sceptic astray.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and verily joseph brought you) it is ezekiel who said this (of old) before moses (clear proofs) commands, prohibitions, the interpretation of dreams and the tearing off of his shirt, (yet ye ceased not to be in doubt concerning what he) joseph (brought you till, when he died, ye said: allah will not send any messenger after him) after his death. (thus allah deceiveth) misguides from his religion (him who is a prodigal) an idolater, (a doubter) because of his idolatry.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and verily joseph brought you, before, in other words, before moses — according to one opinion, this joseph is the son of jacob, having been given life until the time of moses; according to another opinion this is joseph son of abraham son of joseph son of jacob — clear signs, manifest miracles, but you continued to be in doubt concerning what he had brought you until, when he died, you said, without any evidence [to support such a claim]: “god will never send any messenger after him” — in other words, you will never cease to disbelieve in joseph and others [that may come after him]. so, that is, just as you have been led astray, god leads astray one who is a prodigal, an idolater, a skeptic’, a doubter of that which the clear signs have certified.