قَالَ يَٰبُنَيَّ لَا تَقۡصُصۡ رُءۡيَاكَ عَلَىٰٓ إِخۡوَتِكَ فَيَكِيدُواْ لَكَ كَيۡدًاۖ إِنَّ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنَ لِلۡإِنسَٰنِ عَدُوّٞ مُّبِينٞ ٥
He said, "O my son, do not relate your vision to your brothers or they will contrive against you a plan. Indeed Satan, to man, is a manifest enemy.
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قَالَ He said qāla يَٰبُنَيَّ O my son yābunayya لَا (Do) not lā تَقۡصُصۡ relate taqṣuṣ رُءۡيَاكَ your vision ru'yāka عَلَىٰٓ to ʿalā إِخۡوَتِكَ your brothers ikh'watika فَيَكِيدُواْ lest they plan fayakīdū لَكَ against you laka كَيۡدًاۖ a plot kaydan إِنَّ Indeed inna ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنَ the Shaitaan l-shayṭāna لِلۡإِنسَٰنِ (is) to man lil'insāni عَدُوّٞ an enemy ʿaduwwun مُّبِينٞ open mubīnun Tafsir Jacob said to his son, Joseph: O my son, do not mention your dream to your brothers because they will understand it and become jealous of you. They will then plot against you because of their envy. Satan is a clear enemy to man’.
Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran
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