“They said: ‘By Allah! You will never cease to remember Yusuf until you are ill or (until) you are of the perished ones.” Tafseer As we said last time, tallahi, wallahi, wa billahi are all ways you can give an oath to Allah, and you use each one in a different context, which is a …
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Surah Yusuf #83
“He (Ya‘qub) said: ‘No, but your (guilty) selves have made a matter fair for you, so patience is good. Maybe Allah will bring them to me all together; verily He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.” Tafseer; Ya‘qub is excused for saying the exact same phrase he used for Yusuf. I know my son.He is the …
Surah Yusuf #81
“Go back to your father and say: ‘O’ father! Verily your son has committed theft, and we did not bear witness except to what we knew, and we were not guardians of the Unseen’.” Tafseer In this ayah as well we find pearls of wisdom come from the tongue of this ‘big’ brother. This shows …
Surah Yusuf #82
“And ask at the town in which we were and the caravan with which we travelled hither, and verily we are indeed truthful.” Tafseer In the next ayah, Allah radically shifts to a totally new scene. Now the setting is different, and the characters are different as well. Allah ended the previous ayah with the …
Surah Yusuf #80
“So when they despaired of (moving) him, they conferred in private. The eldest of them said: ‘Don’t you know that your father has taken a solemn covenant from you in Allah’s name, and before that you failed to perform your duty with Yusuf? Therefore, I will never leave this land until my father permits me, …