Surah Yūsuf (Joseph) in English

1. فلما سمعت بمكرهن أرسلت إليهن وأعتدت لهن متكأ وآتت كل واحدة منهن سكينا وقالت اخرج عليهن فلما رأينه أكبرنه وقطعن أيديهن وقلن حاش لله ما هذا بشرا إن هذا إلا ملك كريم

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   When she heard of their machinations, she sent for them and arranged a repast, and gave each of them a knife, and said [to Joseph], ‘Come out before them.’ So when they saw him, they marvelled at him and cut their hands [absent-mindedly], and they said, ‘Good heavens! This is not a human being! This is but a noble angel!’

   fa-lammā samiʿat bi-makrihinna ʾarsalat ʾilayhinna wa-ʾaʿtadat lahunna muttakaʾan wa-ʾātat kulla wāḥidatin minhunna sikkīnan wa-qālati khruj ʿalayhinna fa-lammā raʾaynahū ʾakbarnahū wa-qaṭṭaʿna ʾaydiyahunna wa-qulna ḥāsha li-llāhi mā hādhā basharan ʾin hādhā ʾillā malakun karīmun

2. قالت فذلكن الذي لمتنني فيه ولقد راودته عن نفسه فاستعصم ولئن لم يفعل ما آمره ليسجنن وليكونا من الصاغرين

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   She said, ‘He is the one on whose account you blamed me. Certainly, I did solicit him, but he was continent, and if he does not do what I bid him, surely he shall be imprisoned and humbled.’

   qālat fa-dhālikunna lladhī lumtunnanī fīhi wa-la-qad rāwadtuhū ʿan nafsihī fa-staʿṣama wa-la-ʾin lam yafʿal mā ʾāmuruhū la-yusjananna wa-la-yakūnan mina ṣ-ṣāghirīna

3. قال رب السجن أحب إلي مما يدعونني إليه وإلا تصرف عني كيدهن أصب إليهن وأكن من الجاهلين

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   He said, ‘My Lord! The prison is dearer to me than to what they invite me. If You do not turn away their schemes from me, I will incline towards them and become one of the senseless.’

   qāla rabbi s-sijnu ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya mimmā yadʿūnanī ʾilayhi wa-ʾillā taṣrif ʿannī kaydahunna ʾaṣbu ʾilayhinna wa-ʾakun mina l-jāhilīna

4. فاستجاب له ربه فصرف عنه كيدهن إنه هو السميع العليم

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   So his Lord answered him and turned away their stratagems from him. Indeed, He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing.

   fa-stajāba lahū rabbuhū fa-ṣarafa ʿanhu kaydahunna ʾinnahū huwa s-samīʿu l-ʿalīmu

5. ثم بدا لهم من بعد ما رأوا الآيات ليسجننه حتى حين

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   Then it appeared to them, after they had seen all the signs [of his innocence], that they should confine him for some time.

   thumma badā lahum min baʿdi mā raʾawu l-ʾāyāti la-yasjununnahū ḥattā ḥīnin

6. ودخل معه السجن فتيان قال أحدهما إني أراني أعصر خمرا وقال الآخر إني أراني أحمل فوق رأسي خبزا تأكل الطير منه نبئنا بتأويله إنا نراك من المحسنين

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   There entered the prison two youths along with him. One of them said, ‘I dreamt that I am pressing grapes.’ The other said, ‘I dreamt that I am carrying bread on my head from which the birds are eating.’ ‘Inform us of its interpretation,’ [they said], ‘for indeed we see you to be a virtuous man.’

   wa-dakhala maʿahu s-sijna fatayāni qāla ʾaḥaduhumā ʾinnī ʾarānī ʾaʿṣiru khamran wa-qāla l-ʾākharu ʾinnī ʾarānī ʾaḥmilu fawqa raʾsī khubzan taʾkulu ṭ-ṭayru minhu nabbiʾnā bi-taʾwīlihī ʾinnā narāka mina l-muḥsinīna

7. قال لا يأتيكما طعام ترزقانه إلا نبأتكما بتأويله قبل أن يأتيكما ذلكما مما علمني ربي إني تركت ملة قوم لا يؤمنون بالله وهم بالآخرة هم كافرون

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   He said, ‘Before the meals you are served come to you I will inform you of its interpretation. That is among things my Lord has taught me. Indeed, I renounce the creed of the people who have no faith in Allah and who [also] disbelieve in the Hereafter.

   qāla lā yaʾtīkumā ṭaʿāmun turzaqānihī ʾillā nabbaʾtukumā bi-taʾwīlihī qabla ʾan yaʾtiyakumā dhālikumā mimmā ʿallamanī rabbī ʾinnī taraktu millata qawmin lā yuʾminūna bi-llāhi wa-hum bi-l-ʾākhirati hum kāfirūna