Surah Yūsuf (Joseph) in English

1. قال هل آمنكم عليه إلا كما أمنتكم على أخيه من قبل فالله خير حافظا وهو أرحم الراحمين

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   He said, ‘Should I not trust you with him just as I trusted you with his brother before? Yet Allah is the best of protectors, and He is the most merciful of merciful ones.’

   qāla hal ʾāmanukum ʿalayhi ʾillā ka-mā ʾamintukum ʿalā ʾakhīhi min qablu fa-llāhu khayrun ḥāfiẓan wa-huwa ʾarḥamu r-rāḥimīna

2. ولما فتحوا متاعهم وجدوا بضاعتهم ردت إليهم قالوا يا أبانا ما نبغي هذه بضاعتنا ردت إلينا ونمير أهلنا ونحفظ أخانا ونزداد كيل بعير ذلك كيل يسير

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   And when they opened their baggage, they found their money restored to them. They said, ‘Father, what [more] do we want?! This is our money, restored to us! We will get provisions for our family and take care of our brother, and add another camel-load of rations. These are meagre rations.’

   wa-lammā fataḥū matāʿahum wajadū biḍāʿatahum ruddat ʾilayhim qālū yā-ʾabānā mā nabghī hādhihī biḍāʿatunā ruddat ʾilaynā wa-namīru ʾahlanā wa-naḥfaẓu ʾakhānā wa-nazdādu kayla baʿīrin dhālika kaylun yasīrun

3. قال لن أرسله معكم حتى تؤتون موثقا من الله لتأتنني به إلا أن يحاط بكم فلما آتوه موثقهم قال الله على ما نقول وكيل

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   He said, ‘I will not let him go with you until you give me a [solemn] pledge by Allah that you will surely bring him back to me, unless you are made to perish.’ When they had given him their [solemn] pledge, he said, ‘Allah is witness over what we say.’

   qāla lan ʾursilahū maʿakum ḥattā tuʾtūni mawthiqan mina llāhi la-taʾtunnanī bihī ʾillā ʾan yuḥāṭa bikum fa-lammā ʾātawhu mawthiqahum qāla llāhu ʿalā mā naqūlu wakīlun

4. وقال يا بني لا تدخلوا من باب واحد وادخلوا من أبواب متفرقة وما أغني عنكم من الله من شيء إن الحكم إلا لله عليه توكلت وعليه فليتوكل المتوكلون

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   And he said, ‘My sons, do not enter by one gate, but enter by separate gates, though I cannot avail you anything against Allah. Sovereignty belongs only to Allah. In Him I have put my trust; and in Him let all the trusting put their trust.’

   wa-qāla yā-baniyya lā tadkhulū min bābin wāḥidin wa-dkhulū min ʾabwābin mutafarriqatin wa-mā ʾughnī ʿankum mina llāhi min shayʾin ʾini l-ḥukmu ʾillā li-llāhi ʿalayhi tawakkaltu wa-ʿalayhi fa-l-yatawakkali l-mutawakkilūna

5. ولما دخلوا من حيث أمرهم أبوهم ما كان يغني عنهم من الله من شيء إلا حاجة في نفس يعقوب قضاها وإنه لذو علم لما علمناه ولكن أكثر الناس لا يعلمون

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   When they entered whence their father had bidden them, it did not avail them anything against Allah, but only fulfilled a wish in Jacob’s heart. Indeed, he had the knowledge of what We had taught him, but most people do not know.

   wa-lammā dakhalū min ḥaythu ʾamarahum ʾabūhum mā kāna yughnī ʿanhum mina llāhi min shayʾin ʾillā ḥājatan fī nafsi yaʿqūba qaḍāhā wa-ʾinnahū la-dhū ʿilmin li-mā ʿallamnāhu wa-lākinna ʾakthara n-nāsi lā yaʿlamūna

6. ولما دخلوا على يوسف آوى إليه أخاه قال إني أنا أخوك فلا تبتئس بما كانوا يعملون

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   When they entered into the presence of Joseph, he set his brother close to himself, and said, ‘Indeed I am your brother, so do not sorrow for what they used to do.’

   wa-lammā dakhalū ʿalā yūsufa ʾāwā ʾilayhi ʾakhāhu qāla ʾinnī ʾana ʾakhūka fa-lā tabtaʾis bi-mā kānū yaʿmalūna