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Yusuf 62

Ayah 62 of 111 · Meccan

وَقَالَ لِفِتۡيَٰنِهِ ٱجۡعَلُواْ بِضَٰعَتَهُمۡ فِي رِحَالِهِمۡ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَعۡرِفُونَهَآ إِذَا ٱنقَلَبُوٓاْ إِلَىٰٓ أَهۡلِهِمۡ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَرۡجِعُونَ ٦٢

And [Joseph] said to his servants, "Put their merchandise1 into their saddlebags so they might recognize it when they have gone back to their people that perhaps they will [again] return."

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 The goods which they had brought to trade for food supplies.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَقَالَAnd he saidwaqāla
  2. لِفِتۡيَٰنِهِto his servantslifit'yānihi
  3. ٱجۡعَلُواْPutij'ʿalū
  4. بِضَٰعَتَهُمۡtheir merchandisebiḍāʿatahum
  5. فِيinfī
  6. رِحَالِهِمۡtheir saddlebagsriḥālihim
  7. لَعَلَّهُمۡso that theylaʿallahum
  8. يَعۡرِفُونَهَآmay recognize ityaʿrifūnahā
  9. إِذَاwhenidhā
  10. ٱنقَلَبُوٓاْthey go backinqalabū
  11. إِلَىٰٓtoilā
  12. أَهۡلِهِمۡtheir peopleahlihim
  13. لَعَلَّهُمۡso that they maylaʿallahum
  14. يَرۡجِعُونَreturnyarjiʿūna

Tafsir

Joseph told his servants to return the merchandise of these people to them, so that they would realize on their return that they did not do trade with it, which would force them to return again with their brother, to prove their integrity to Joseph, and so that he would receive their merchandise from them.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran