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Surah Yusuf, Verse 14

سورة يوسف، الآية ١٤

12:14 Juz 12 Hizb 24 Page 236 of the mushaf Meccan surah

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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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.

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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.

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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

  1. قَالُوا۟ qālū They said ق و ل
  2. لَئِنْ la-in If
  3. أَكَلَهُ akalahu eats him أ ك ل
  4. ٱلذِّئْبُ l-dhi'bu the wolf ذ أ ب
  5. وَنَحْنُ wanaḥnu while we
  6. عُصْبَةٌ ʿuṣ'batun (are) a group ع ص ب
  7. إِنَّآ innā indeed, we
  8. إِذًا idhan then
  9. لَّخَٰسِرُونَ lakhāsirūna surely (would be) losers خ س ر

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