Surah Yūsuf (Joseph) in English

1. وراودته التي هو في بيتها عن نفسه وغلقت الأبواب وقالت هيت لك قال معاذ الله إنه ربي أحسن مثواي إنه لا يفلح الظالمون

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   The woman in whose house he was, solicited him. She closed the doors and said, ‘Come!!’ He said, ‘God forbid! Indeed He is my Lord; He has given me a good abode. Indeed the wrongdoers are not felicitous.’

   wa-rāwadathu llatī huwa fī baytihā ʿan nafsihī wa-ghallaqati l-ʾabwāba wa-qālat hayta laka qāla maʿādha llāhi ʾinnahū rabbī ʾaḥsana mathwāya ʾinnahū lā yufliḥu ẓ-ẓālimūna

2. ولقد همت به وهم بها لولا أن رأى برهان ربه كذلك لنصرف عنه السوء والفحشاء إنه من عبادنا المخلصين

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   She certainly made for him; and he would have made for her [too] had he not beheld the proof of his Lord. So it was, that We might turn away from him all evil and indecency. He was indeed one of Our dedicated servants.

   wa-la-qad hammat bihī wa-hamma bihā law-lā ʾan raʾā burhāna rabbihī ka-dhālika li-naṣrifa ʿanhu s-sūʾa wa-l-faḥshāʾa ʾinnahū min ʿibādinā l-mukhlaṣīna

3. واستبقا الباب وقدت قميصه من دبر وألفيا سيدها لدى الباب قالت ما جزاء من أراد بأهلك سوءا إلا أن يسجن أو عذاب أليم

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   They raced to the door, and she tore his shirt from behind, and they ran into her husband at the door. She said, ‘What is to be the requital of him who has evil intentions for your wife except imprisonment or a painful punishment?’

   wa-stabaqā l-bāba wa-qaddat qamīṣahū min duburin wa-ʾalfayā s-sayyidahā ladā l-bābi qālat mā jazāʾu man ʾarāda bi-ʾahlika sūʾan ʾillā ʾan yusjana ʾaw ʿadhābun ʾalīmun

4. قال هي راودتني عن نفسي وشهد شاهد من أهلها إن كان قميصه قد من قبل فصدقت وهو من الكاذبين

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   He said, ‘It was she who solicited me.’ A witness of her own household testified [thus]: ‘If his shirt is torn from the front, she tells the truth and he lies.

   qāla hiya rāwadatnī ʿan nafsī wa-shahida shāhidun min ʾahlihā ʾin kāna qamīṣuhū qudda min qubulin fa-ṣadaqat wa-huwa mina l-kādhibīna

5. وإن كان قميصه قد من دبر فكذبت وهو من الصادقين

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   But if his shirt is torn from behind, then she lies and he tells the truth.’

   wa-ʾin kāna qamīṣuhū qudda min duburin fa-kadhabat wa-huwa mina ṣ-ṣādiqīna

6. فلما رأى قميصه قد من دبر قال إنه من كيدكن إن كيدكن عظيم

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   So when he saw that his shirt was torn from behind, he said, ‘This is [a case] of you women’s guile! Your guile is indeed great!

   fa-lammā raʾā qamīṣahū qudda min duburin qāla ʾinnahū min kaydikunna ʾinna kaydakunna ʿaẓīmun

7. يوسف أعرض عن هذا واستغفري لذنبك إنك كنت من الخاطئين

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   Joseph, let this matter alone, and you, woman, plead for forgiveness for your sin, for you have indeed been erring.’

   yūsufu ʾaʿriḍ ʿan hādhā wa-staghfirī li-dhanbiki ʾinnaki kunti mina l-khāṭiʾīna

8. وقال نسوة في المدينة امرأت العزيز تراود فتاها عن نفسه قد شغفها حبا إنا لنراها في ضلال مبين

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   Some of the townswomen said, ‘The chieftain’s wife has solicited her slave boy! He has captivated her love. Indeed we see her to be in manifest error.’

   wa-qāla niswatun fī l-madīnati mraʾatu l-ʿazīzi turāwidu fatāhā ʿan nafsihī qad shaghafahā ḥubban ʾinnā la-narāhā fī ḍalālin mubīnin