Surah Yūsuf (Joseph) in English

1. قالوا أضغاث أحلام وما نحن بتأويل الأحلام بعالمين

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   They said, ‘[These are] confused nightmares, and we do not know the interpretation of nightmares.’

   qālū ʾaḍghāthu ʾaḥlāmin wa-mā naḥnu bi-taʾwīli l-ʾaḥlāmi bi-ʿālimīna

2. وقال الذي نجا منهما وادكر بعد أمة أنا أنبئكم بتأويله فأرسلون

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   Said the one of the two who had been delivered, remembering [Joseph] after a long time: ‘I will inform you of its interpretation; so let me go [to meet Joseph in the prison].’

   wa-qāla lladhī najā minhumā wa-ddakara baʿda ʾummatin ʾana ʾunabbiʾukum bi-taʾwīlihī fa-ʾarsilūni

3. يوسف أيها الصديق أفتنا في سبع بقرات سمان يأكلهن سبع عجاف وسبع سنبلات خضر وأخر يابسات لعلي أرجع إلى الناس لعلهم يعلمون

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   ‘Joseph,’ [he said], ‘O truthful one, give us your opinion concerning seven fat cows who are eaten by seven lean ones, and seven green ears and [seven] others dry, that I may return to the people so that they may know [the truth of the matter].’

   yūsufu ʾayyuhā ṣ-ṣiddīqu ʾaftinā fī sabʿi baqarātin simānin yaʾkuluhunna sabʿun ʿijāfun wa-sabʿi sunbulātin khuḍrin wa-ʾukhara yābisātin laʿallī ʾarjiʿu ʾilā n-nāsi laʿallahum yaʿlamūna

4. قال تزرعون سبع سنين دأبا فما حصدتم فذروه في سنبله إلا قليلا مما تأكلون

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   He said, ‘You will sow for seven consecutive years. Then leave in the ear whatever [grain] you harvest, except a little that you eat.

   qāla tazraʿūna sabʿa sinīna daʾaban fa-mā ḥaṣadtum fa-dharūhu fī sunbulihī ʾillā qalīlan mimmā taʾkulūna

5. ثم يأتي من بعد ذلك سبع شداد يأكلن ما قدمتم لهن إلا قليلا مما تحصنون

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   Then after that there will come seven hard years which will eat up whatever you have set aside for them—all except a little which you preserve [for seed].

   thumma yaʾtī min baʿdi dhālika sabʿun shidādun yaʾkulna mā qaddamtum lahunna ʾillā qalīlan mimmā tuḥṣinūna

6. ثم يأتي من بعد ذلك عام فيه يغاث الناس وفيه يعصرون

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   Then after that there will come a year wherein the people will be granted relief and provided with rains therein.

   thumma yaʾtī min baʿdi dhālika ʿāmun fīhi yughāthu n-nāsu wa-fīhi yaʿṣirūna

7. وقال الملك ائتوني به فلما جاءه الرسول قال ارجع إلى ربك فاسأله ما بال النسوة اللاتي قطعن أيديهن إن ربي بكيدهن عليم

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   The king said, ‘Bring him to me!’ When the messenger came to him, he said, ‘Go back to your master, and ask him about the affair of women who cut their hands. My Lord is indeed well aware of their stratagems.’

   wa-qāla l-maliku ʾtūnī bihī fa-lammā jāʾahu r-rasūlu qāla rjiʿ ʾilā rabbika fa-sʾalhu mā bālu n-niswati llātī qaṭṭaʿna ʾaydiyahunna ʾinna rabbī bi-kaydihinna ʿalīmun

8. قال ما خطبكن إذ راودتن يوسف عن نفسه قلن حاش لله ما علمنا عليه من سوء قالت امرأت العزيز الآن حصحص الحق أنا راودته عن نفسه وإنه لمن الصادقين

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   The king said, ‘What was your business, women, when you solicited Joseph?’ They said, ‘Heaven be praised! We know of no evil in him.’ The prince’s wife said, ‘Now the truth has come to light! It was I who solicited him, and he is indeed telling the truth.’

   qāla mā khaṭbukunna ʾidh rāwadtunna yūsufa ʿan nafsihī qulna ḥāsha li-llāhi mā ʿalimnā ʿalayhi min sūʾin qālati mraʾatu l-ʿazīzi l-ʾāna ḥaṣḥaṣa l-ḥaqqu ʾana rāwadtuhū ʿan nafsihī wa-ʾinnahū la-mina ṣ-ṣādiqīna

9. ذلك ليعلم أني لم أخنه بالغيب وأن الله لا يهدي كيد الخائنين

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   [Joseph said], [‘I initiated] this [inquiry], that he may know that I did not betray him in his absence, and that Allah does not further the schemes of the treacherous.’

   dhālika li-yaʿlama ʾannī lam ʾakhunhu bi-l-ghaybi wa-ʾanna llāha lā yahdī kayda l-khāʾinīna