“They came to their father at night, crying.” Surah Yusuf 16 TAFSEER They came back at night, but they were not supposed to stay out that late. Nobody picnics in the darkness. They are supposed to come back at maghrib / when the light is finishing. They purposely delayed to add to the plot and …
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Surah Yusuf #15
So, when they went away with him and were determined to put him in the bottom of a pit, (they did accordingly). And we revealed to him (Yusuf), “You will (one day) remind them of this deed of theirs, and they will not recognize (you).” TAFSEER “So when they took him away…” Allah does not …
Surah Yusuf #14
They said: “If a wolf devours him, while we are ‘Usbah (a strong group) (to guard him), then surely, we are the losers.” TAFSEER Usbah means a large group of ten or more, and they were exactly ten. In English, the only word like this is ‘gang’, but this has a negative meaning. How could a …
Surah Yusuf #13
He said, “It makes me sad that you should take him, and I fear that some wolf might eat him up when you are heedless of him.” Surah Yusuf #13 TAFSEER He said (and this is an emphasis here again), “Surely it will make me very sad that you should take him away.” This shows …