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Surah Yusuf, Verse 10

سورة يوسف، الآية ١٠

12:10 Juz 12 Hizb 24 Page 236 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 12:10

قَالَ قَآئِلٌ مِّنْهُمْ لَا تَقْتُلُوا۟ يُوسُفَ وَأَلْقُوهُ فِى غَيَٰبَتِ ٱلْجُبِّ يَلْتَقِطْهُ بَعْضُ ٱلسَّيَّارَةِ إِن كُنتُمْ فَٰعِلِينَ ۝١٠

Transliteration

qāla qāilun min'hum lā taqtulū yūsufa wa-alqūhu fī ghayābati l-jubi yaltaqiṭ'hu baʿḍu l-sayārati in kuntum fāʿilīna

Translation

Said a speaker among them, "Do not kill Joseph but throw him into the bottom of the well; some travelers will pick him up - if you would do [something]."

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Verse 10 of Surah Yusuf (12:10), a Meccan surah, is in juz 12, on page 236 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 10

Al-Mukhtasar

One of the brothers said: Do not kill Yousuf, rather throw him into a well and some passers by may find him and take him, this is a lesser evil if you really want to get rid of him.

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Other translations of verse 10

One of them said, “Do not kill Joseph; but if you must do something, then throw him into the bottom of the well, so that some travelers may pick him up.”

One from among them said: "Kill not Yûsuf (Joseph), but if you must do something, throw him down to the bottom of a well; he will be picked up by some caravan of travellers."

One among them said: Kill not Joseph but, if ye must be doing, fling him into the depth of the pit; some caravan will find him.

Said one of them: "Slay not Joseph, but if ye must do something, throw him down to the bottom of the well: he will be picked up by some caravan of travellers."

A speaker from among them said: Do not slay Yusuf, and cast him down into the bottom of the pit if you must do (it), (so that) some of the travellers may pick him up.

One (Literally: a speaker) of them said, "Do not kill Yusuf, and cast him into the unseen (bottom) of the pit, (and) (some) travellers will pick him out, in case you are performing (that)."

Verse 10 word by word

  1. قَالَ qāla Said ق و ل
  2. قَآئِلٌ qāilun a speaker ق و ل
  3. مِّنْهُمْ min'hum among them
  4. لَا lā (Do) not
  5. تَقْتُلُوا۟ taqtulū kill ق ت ل
  6. يُوسُفَ yūsufa Yusuf
  7. وَأَلْقُوهُ wa-alqūhu but throw him ل ق ي
  8. فِى fī in
  9. غَيَٰبَتِ ghayābati the bottom غ ي ب
  10. ٱلْجُبِّ l-jubi (of) the well ج ب ب
  11. يَلْتَقِطْهُ yaltaqiṭ'hu will pick him ل ق ط
  12. بَعْضُ baʿḍu some ب ع ض
  13. ٱلسَّيَّارَةِ l-sayārati [the] caravan س ي ر
  14. إِن in if
  15. كُنتُمْ kuntum you are ك و ن
  16. فَٰعِلِينَ fāʿilīna doing ف ع ل

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