Surah Yūsuf (Joseph) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. الر تلك آيات الكتاب المبين

   1

   Aif, Lam, Ra. These are the signs of the Manifest Book.

   a-l-r (ʾalif lām rā) tilka ʾāyātu l-kitābi l-mubīni

2. إنا أنزلناه قرآنا عربيا لعلكم تعقلون

   2

   Indeed We have sent it down as an Arabic Quran so that you may exercise your reason.

   ʾinnā ʾanzalnāhu qurʾānan ʿarabiyyan laʿallakum taʿqilūna

3. نحن نقص عليك أحسن القصص بما أوحينا إليك هذا القرآن وإن كنت من قبله لمن الغافلين

   3

   We will recount to you the best of narratives in what We have revealed to you of this Quran, and indeed prior to it you were among those who are unaware [of it].

   naḥnu naquṣṣu ʿalayka ʾaḥsana l-qaṣaṣi bi-mā ʾawḥaynā ʾilayka hādhā l-qurʾāna wa-ʾin kunta min qablihī la-mina l-ghāfilīna

4. إذ قال يوسف لأبيه يا أبت إني رأيت أحد عشر كوكبا والشمس والقمر رأيتهم لي ساجدين

   4

   When Joseph said to his father, ‘Father! I saw eleven planets, and the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrating themselves before me,’

   ʾidh qāla yūsufu li-ʾabīhi yā-ʾabati ʾinnī raʾaytu ʾaḥada ʿashara kawkaban wa-sh-shamsa wa-l-qamara raʾaytuhum lī sājidīna