Text of verse 12:13
قَالَ إِنِّى لَيَحْزُنُنِىٓ أَن تَذْهَبُوا۟ بِهِۦ وَأَخَافُ أَن يَأْكُلَهُ ٱلذِّئْبُ وَأَنتُمْ عَنْهُ غَٰفِلُونَ ١٣
Transliteration
qāla innī layaḥzununī an tadhhabū bihi wa-akhāfu an yakulahu l-dhi'bu wa-antum ʿanhu ghāfilūna
Translation
[Jacob] said, "Indeed, it saddens me that you should take him, and I fear that a wolf would eat him while you are of him unaware."
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Salomo Keyzer
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Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
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Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
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Verse 13 of Surah Yusuf (12:13), 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.
Tafsir of verse 13
Al-Mukhtasar
Jacob said to his sons: I am saddened by your taking him because I cannot bear to be away from him. I also fear that a wolf may eat him when you are not paying attention to him, absorbed in your enjoyment and play.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Yusuf
Other translations of verse 13
He said, “It truly saddens me that you should take him away, and I fear that a wolf may eat him when you are negligent of him.”
He [Ya‘qûb (Jacob)] said: "Truly, it saddens me that you should take him away. I fear lest a wolf should devour him, while you are careless of him."
He said: Lo! in truth it saddens me that ye should take him with you, and I fear less the wolf devour him while ye are heedless of him.
(Jacob) said: "Really it saddens me that ye should take him away: I fear lest the wolf should devour him while ye attend not to him."
He said: Surely it grieves me that you should take him off, and I fear lest the wolf devour him while you are heedless of him.
He said, "Surely it grieves me indeed that you should go with him, and I fear that the wolf may eat him (while) you are heedless of him."
Verse 13 word by word
قَالَ
qāla He said ق و ل
إِنِّى
innī Indeed, [I]
لَيَحْزُنُنِىٓ
layaḥzununī it surely saddens me ح ز ن
أَن
an that
تَذْهَبُوا۟
tadhhabū you should take him ذ ه ب
بِهِۦ
bihi you should take him
وَأَخَافُ
wa-akhāfu and I fear خ و ف
أَن
an that
يَأْكُلَهُ
yakulahu would eat him أ ك ل
ٱلذِّئْبُ
l-dhi'bu a wolf ذ أ ب
وَأَنتُمْ
wa-antum while you
عَنْهُ
ʿanhu of him
غَٰفِلُونَ
ghāfilūna (are) unaware غ ف ل
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