“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 …
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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, …
Surah Yusuf #79
“He said: ‘Allah forbid that we take (anyone) other than him with whom we found our property. Indeed (if we did so) we would certainly be of the unjust ones’.” Surah Yusuf #79 Yusuf immediately turned down this proposal, implying that a just person will never punish an innocent man for an offence which had …
Surah Yusuf #78
“They said to Yusuf, ‘O ‘Aziz, he has a father who is a shaykh and kabeer, so why don’t you take one of us instead of him? We see you to be of those who are very righteous and very noble.’” Surah Yusuf #78 We had reached in our story of Surah Yusuf the point …
Surah Yusuf #77
“They said: ‘If he steals, a brother of his had stolen before.’ But Yusuf kept it secret within his heart and did not reveal it to them. He said: ‘You are in a worse situation, and Allah knows best (the truth) of what you state’.” Surah Yusuf #77 TAFSEER “They said, ‘If he is stealing, …