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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Yusuf 12:81

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ٱرْجِعُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰٓ أَبِيكُمْ فَقُولُوا۟ يَـٰٓأَبَانَآ إِنَّ ٱبْنَكَ سَرَقَ وَمَا شَهِدْنَآ إِلَّا بِمَا عَلِمْنَا وَمَا كُنَّا لِلْغَيْبِ حَـٰفِظِينَ

Return to your father and say, 'O our father, indeed your son has stolen, and we did not testify except to what we knew. And we were not witnesses of the unseen.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

ارجعوا أنتم إلى أبيكم، وأخبروه بما جرى، وقولوا له: إن ابنك «بنيامين» قد سرق، وما شهدنا بذلك إلا بعد أن تَيَقَّنَّا، فقد رأينا المكيال في رحله، وما كان عندنا علم الغيب أنه سيسرق حين عاهدناك على ردِّه.

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