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Surah Yusuf, Verse 13

سورة يوسف، الآية ١٣

12:13 Juz 12 Hizb 24 Page 236 of the mushaf Meccan surah

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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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.

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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.

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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

  1. قَالَ qāla He said ق و ل
  2. إِنِّى innī Indeed, [I]
  3. لَيَحْزُنُنِىٓ layaḥzununī it surely saddens me ح ز ن
  4. أَن an that
  5. تَذْهَبُوا۟ tadhhabū you should take him ذ ه ب
  6. بِهِۦ bihi you should take him
  7. وَأَخَافُ wa-akhāfu and I fear خ و ف
  8. أَن an that
  9. يَأْكُلَهُ yakulahu would eat him أ ك ل
  10. ٱلذِّئْبُ l-dhi'bu a wolf ذ أ ب
  11. وَأَنتُمْ wa-antum while you
  12. عَنْهُ ʿanhu of him
  13. غَٰفِلُونَ ghāfilūna (are) unaware غ ف ل

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