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12. Yusuf (Yusuf, 111 verses)
12.1. Alif. Lām. Rā. These are the Revelations of the Book clear in itself and clearly showing the truth.
12.2. We send it down as a qur'ān (discourse) in Arabic so that you may reflect (on both its meaning and wording) and understand.
12.3. We are about to relate to you (O Messenger) the best of narratives (of the past) by Our revealing to you this Qur'ān. Before this, indeed you were unaware of it.
12.4. When Joseph said to his father: "O my father! I saw in a dream eleven stars, as well as the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrating themselves before me. "
12.5. He (Jacob) said: "O my son! Do not relate your dream to your brothers, lest (out of envy) they devise a scheme against you. For Satan is a manifest enemy to humankind  (and can incite them to do such a thing).
12.6. "So will your Lord choose you and impart to you some knowledge of the inner meaning of all happenings (including dreams), and complete His favor upon you and upon the family of Jacob, as He completed it formerly upon your forefathers, Abraham and Isaac. Surely, your Lord is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
12.7. Assuredly, in (this account of) Joseph and his brothers, there are many signs (messages) for seekers of truth.
12.8. When they (the brothers addressing one another) said: "Joseph and his brother are indeed more loved by our father than we are, even though we are a powerful band (of greater use to him). Surely, our father is manifestly mistaken. "
12.9. (One of them said:) "Kill Joseph, or cast him out in some distant land, so that your father's attention should turn only to you, and after that you may again become righteous people. "
12.10. Another of them, putting forward his view, said: "Do not kill Joseph, but rather, cast him into the depth of the well (that you know of), that some caravan may pick him up – (do that) if you are seriously intending to take action. "
12.11. They said (having agreed on this) to their father: "Our father! Why will you not trust Joseph with us, while we are his sincere well-wishers?
12.12. "Let him go out with us tomorrow, that he may enjoy himself and play; surely we will take good care of him. "
12.13. He (Jacob) said: "Indeed, it grieves me that you should take him with you, and I fear lest a wolf should devour him while you are inattentive of him. "
12.14. They said: "If a wolf should devour him when we are so strong a company, then we should surely be lost!"
12.15. And so they went away with him, and decided to put Joseph in the depth of the well (which they did). We revealed to him: "You will most certainly remind them of this deed of theirs while they are unaware (neither knowing nor understanding all that has transpired). "
12.16. And at nightfall, they returned to their father, weeping.
12.17. They said: "Our father! We went off racing with one another and left Joseph behind by our things, then a wolf devoured him. But we know that you will not believe us, even though we speak the truth. "
12.18. They had brought his shirt back with false blood on it. Jacob said: "Rather, your (evil-commanding) souls have tempted you to do something evil. So (the proper recourse for me is), a becoming patience (a patience that endures without complaint). God it is Whose help is sought against (the situation) that you have described. "
12.19. And there came a caravan, and they sent forth one among them to fetch water. He let down his bucket (into the well). "Good luck!" he exclaimed: "(There is) a youth here!" So they hid and preserved him as merchandise to sell. God had full knowledge of what they were doing.
12.20. And they sold him for a paltry price – a few silver coins – so little did they value him!
12.21. The man who bought him in Egypt said to his wife: "Give him honorable, good lodging. It may be that he will prove useful to us, or we may adopt him as a son. " Thus, did We establish Joseph in the land (Egypt), that We would impart to him knowledge and understanding of the inner meaning of events, including dreams. God always prevails in whatever be His will, but most people do not know (that it is so).
12.22. When Joseph reached his full manhood, We granted him authority with sound, wise judgment, and special knowledge. Thus, do We reward those devoted to doing good as if seeing God.
12.23. And the woman in whose house he was living sought to enjoy herself by him. She bolted the doors and said, "Come, please!" He said: "God forbid! My lord (your husband) has given me honorable, good lodging. Assuredly, wrongdoers never prosper. "
12.24. Certainly, she was burning with desire for him; and he would have desired her had it not been that he had already seen the argument and proof of his Lord (concerning chastity and good conduct, and so was anxious only about how to escape her). We did it in that way (We showed to him Our argument and proof) so that We might avert from him an evil and indecency. For he was one of Our servants endowed with perfect sincerity and purity of intention in faith and practicing the Religion.
12.25. So they raced to the door, and she tore his shirt from the back, and they met her master (husband) by the door. She cried: "What should be the recompense for him who purposes evil against your household – except imprisonment or a grievous punishment?"
12.26. He (Joseph) said: "She it was who sought to enjoy herself by me. " And one of those present, a member of her household, said: "If his shirt has been torn from the front, she is telling the truth, and he is a liar.
12.27. "But if it is torn from the back, then she is lying, and he is truthful. "
12.28. So when he (her husband) saw that his shirt was torn from the back, he (turned to his wife and) said: "This is from the guile of you women; for sure your guile is great. "
12.29. (To Joseph) he said "Do not mention this (to anyone). " (To his wife) he said: "Ask forgiveness for your sin; for surely you have committed a sin. "
12.30. Women (gossiping) in the city said: "The minister's wife has sought to enjoy herself by her slave-boy. Certainly it (her desire for him) has pierced her heart with love. We see that she has plainly lost her wits and her way. "
12.31. When she heard of their sly whispers, she sent for them, and prepared for them a place of reclining for a sumptuous meal. She gave to each one of them a knife and said (to Joseph): "Come out before them!" When they saw him, they were so stricken with admiration of him that they cut their hands, exclaiming: "God save us! This is no human mortal; he is but a noble angel!"
12.32. She said: "This is the one about whom you have been taunting me. And, indeed, I did seek to enjoy myself by him, but he was resolute in his chastity. Yet, if he continues to refuse what I command him, he shall certainly be imprisoned, and shall certainly find himself among the humbled!"
12.33. He (imploring God) said: "My Lord! Prison is dearer to me than what they bid me to. If You do not avert their guile from me, I might incline towards them and become one of the ignorant (those who succumb to such temptations). "
12.34. So his Lord answered him and averted from him their guile. Surely He it is Who is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
12.35. It occurred to them (the noblemen and his household), even after they had seen the signs (of Joseph's innocence), that they should imprison him for a time.
12.36. And there entered the prison with him two young men. One of them said (to Joseph one day): "I dreamed that I was pressing grapes for wine. " The other said: "I dreamed that I was carrying bread upon my head, of which birds were eating. " "Inform us of their meaning. For sure, we see that you are of those endowed with the best qualities. "
12.37. He said: "The meal which you are fed (daily) will not come to you but I will have informed you of their meaning before it comes to you. This is of the knowledge that my Lord has taught me. Surely I have left behind me the way of a people who do not have faith in God (as they ought to have faith), and who do not believe in the Hereafter.
12.38. "I have followed the way of my fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is not for us to associate anything with God as partner. This (His teaching and calling us to belief in Him, without associating any partners with Him) is from God's grace and bounty on us and on all people, but most people do not give thanks (in return, by believing firmly in His Oneness and worshipping Him alone).
12.39. "O my two fellow-prisoners! Are many diverse lords more reasonable and better (to attribute creation to and believe in and obey), or God, the One, the All-Overwhelming (holding absolute sway over all that exists)?
12.40. "What you worship apart from Him is nothing but names that you and your forefathers made up for them. (In the absolute sense) judgment and authority rest with none but God alone: He has commanded that you worship none but Him alone. This is the upright, ever-true Religion, but most people do not know (and they act from their ignorance).
12.41. "(As for your dreams:) O my fellow-prisoners! One of you will, again, give his lord (the king) wine to drink. As to the other, he will be hanged, and birds will peck at his head. The matter about which you inquired has already been decided. "
12.42. He said to the one of the two whom he deemed would be delivered: "Mention me in the presence of your lord. " But Satan caused him to forget to mention him to his lord, and so he (Joseph) remained in prison some more years.
12.43. And the king said one day: "I saw in a dream seven fat cows being devoured by seven lean ones, and seven green ears of grain and another (seven) dry. O you courtiers! Enlighten me about my dream, if you know how to interpret dreams. "
12.44. They said: "Jumbles of dream images. And we are not knowledgeable in the interpretation of dream images. "
12.45. Now after all that time, of the two (prisoners), the one who had been delivered, remembered (what Joseph had asked him to remember), and he said: "I will inform you of its meaning, so send me forth!"
12.46. (Coming to Joseph in the prison, he said): "Joseph, O man of truth! Enlighten us about seven fat cows being devoured by seven lean ones, and seven green ears of grain, and another (seven) dry – so that I can return to the people (of the court). And it may be that (after I have told them your interpretation of the dreams), they will come to know (what manner of man you are, and the injustice done to you). "
12.47. He said: "You shall sow for seven years as usual, but that which you have harvested, leave it in the ear, all save a little which you eat.
12.48. "Then will come after that seven hard years, which will consume what you have laid up for them; all but a little, you should keep in store (to use as seed stock).
12.49. "And, thereafter, will come a year in which the people will be relieved (with abundance in place of scarcity), and in which they will press (fruit for drink and oil, and milk from their cattle). "
12.50. (Informed of the meaning of his dream,) the king said, "Bring him to me!" When the messenger (of the king) came to him, Joseph said: "Go back to your lord and ask him to find out the facts of the case about the women who cut their hands. For sure, my Lord has full knowledge of their guile (and my innocence). "
 
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