Text of verse 12:14
قَالُوا۟ لَئِنْ أَكَلَهُ ٱلذِّئْبُ وَنَحْنُ عُصْبَةٌ إِنَّآ إِذًا لَّخَٰسِرُونَ ١٤
Transliteration
qālū la-in akalahu l-dhi'bu wanaḥnu ʿuṣ'batun innā idhan lakhāsirūna
Translation
They said, "If a wolf should eat him while we are a [strong] clan, indeed, we would then be losers."
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 14 of Surah Yusuf (12:14), 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 14
Al-Mukhtasar
They said to their father: If a wolf was to eat Joseph when there are so many of us, then, in such a case, we are good for nothing and we are losers because we could not save him from the wolf.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Yusuf
Other translations of verse 14
They said, “If a wolf were to eat him, despite our strong group, then we would surely be losers!”
They said: "If a wolf devours him, while we are a strong group (to guard him), then surely, we are the losers."
They said: If the wolf should devour him when we are (so strong) a band, then surely we should have already perished.
They said: "If the wolf were to devour him while we are (so large) a party, then should we indeed (first) have perished ourselves!"
They said: Surely if the wolf should devour him notwithstanding that we are a (strong) company, we should then certainly be losers.
They said, "Indeed, in case the wolf eats him, and we are a band, (then) surely we are indeed losers!"
Verse 14 word by word
قَالُوا۟
qālū They said ق و ل
لَئِنْ
la-in If
أَكَلَهُ
akalahu eats him أ ك ل
ٱلذِّئْبُ
l-dhi'bu the wolf ذ أ ب
وَنَحْنُ
wanaḥnu while we
عُصْبَةٌ
ʿuṣ'batun (are) a group ع ص ب
إِنَّآ
innā indeed, we
إِذًا
idhan then
لَّخَٰسِرُونَ
lakhāsirūna surely (would be) losers خ س ر
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