سورة يوسف، الآية ٣٥
ثُمَّ بَدَا لَهُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ مَا رَأَوُا۟ ٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ لَيَسْجُنُنَّهُۥ حَتَّىٰ حِينٍ ٣٥
thumma badā lahum min baʿdi mā ra-awū l-āyāti layasjununnahu ḥattā ḥīnin
Then it appeared to them after they had seen the signs595 that he [i.e., al-ʿAzeez] should surely imprison him for a time.596
[595] Proofs of his innocence.
[596] Until the scandal be forgotten.
Verse 35 of Surah Yusuf (12:35), a Meccan surah, is in juz 12, on page 239 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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Then the view of the minister and his people, after they had seen evidence of his innocence, was that they should put him in prison for an unknown period, so that the scandal was not exposed.
Then it occurred to them after they saw the signs [of his innocence] that they should imprison him for some time13.
[13] so that the scandal be forgotten.
Then it occurred to them, after they had seen the proofs (of his innocence), to imprison him for a time.
And it seemed good to them (the men-folk) after they had seen the signs (of his innocence) to imprison him for a time.
Then it occurred to the men, after they had seen the signs, (that it was best) to imprison him for a time.
Then it occurred to them after they had seen the signs that they should imprison him till a time.
Thereafter it seemed good to them even after they had seen the signs, that indeed they should definitely imprison him for (Literally: till a while (had passed) a while (of time).
