الٓرٰ ۫

تِلْكَ

اٰیٰتُ

الْكِتٰبِ

الْمُبِیْنِ

۟۫

Alif Lām Rā. These are verses of the enlightening Book.

We have sent it down, as an Arabic Qur’an, so that you may understand.

By revealing this Qur’an to you, we hereby narrate to you the best narrative, while before this you were among those unaware (of it).

(It happened) when Yūsuf said to his father, “My father, I saw (in dream) eleven stars and the Sun and the Moon; I saw them all fallen prostrate before me.’’

He said, “My son, do not relate your dream to your brothers, lest they should devise a plan against you. Surely, Satan is an open enemy for mankind.

And it will be in this way that your Lord will choose you and teach you the correct interpretation of events, and will perfect His bounty upon you and upon the House of Ya‘qūb, as He has perfected it earlier upon your fore-fathers, Ibrāhīm and IsHāq. Surely, your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing.”

Surely, in (the story of) Yūsuf and his brothers, there are signs for those who ask.

(It happened) when they said, “Yūsuf and his brother are dearer to our father than we are, while we are a whole group. Surely, our father is in clear error.

Let us kill Yūsuf, or throw him at some place on earth, and thus your father’s full attention will be devoted for you alone, and after doing that, you may become a righteous people.’’

One of them said, “Do not kill Yūsuf; rather, cast him into the bottom of a pit, so that some wayfarers may pick him up, if you are going to do something anyway.’’