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Surah Yusuf, Verse 5

سورة يوسف، الآية ٥

12:5 Juz 12 Hizb 24 Page 236 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 12:5

قَالَ يَٰبُنَىَّ لَا تَقْصُصْ رُءْيَاكَ عَلَىٰٓ إِخْوَتِكَ فَيَكِيدُوا۟ لَكَ كَيْدًا إِنَّ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنَ لِلْإِنسَٰنِ عَدُوٌّ مُّبِينٌ ۝٥

Transliteration

qāla yābunayya lā taqṣuṣ ru'yāka ʿalā ikh'watika fayakīdū laka kaydan inna l-shayṭāna lil'insāni ʿaduwwun mubīnun

Translation

He said, "O my son, do not relate your vision to your brothers or they will contrive against you a plan. Indeed Satan, to man, is a manifest enemy.

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Verse 5 of Surah Yusuf (12:5), 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 5

Al-Mukhtasar

Jacob said to his son, Joseph: O my son, do not mention your dream to your brothers because they will understand it and become jealous of you. They will then plot against you because of their envy. Satan is a clear enemy to man’.

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Other translations of verse 5

He said, “O my son, do not relate your vision to your brothers, lest they devise a plot against you, for Satan is a sworn enemy to mankind.

He (the father) said: "O my son! Relate not your vision to your brothers, lest they should arrange a plot against you. Verily! Shaitân (Satan) is to man an open enemy!

He said: O my dear son! Tell not thy brethren of thy vision, lest they plot a plot against thee. Lo! Satan is for man an open foe.

Said (the father): "My (dear) little son! relate not thy vision to thy brothers, lest they concoct a plot against thee: for Satan is to man an avowed enemy!

He said: O my son! do not relate your vision to your brothers, lest they devise a plan against you; surely the Shaitan is an open enemy to man.

He said, "O my son, do not narrate your vision to your brothers, (for) then they may plot against you (some) plotting. Surely Ash-Shaytan (The all-Vicious (one), i.e., the Devil) is to man an evident enemy.

Verse 5 word by word

  1. قَالَ qāla He said ق و ل
  2. يَٰبُنَىَّ yābunayya O my son ب ن ي
  3. لَا lā (Do) not
  4. تَقْصُصْ taqṣuṣ relate ق ص ص
  5. رُءْيَاكَ ru'yāka your vision ر أ ي
  6. عَلَىٰٓ ʿalā to
  7. إِخْوَتِكَ ikh'watika your brothers أ خ و
  8. فَيَكِيدُوا۟ fayakīdū lest they plan ك ي د
  9. لَكَ laka against you
  10. كَيْدًا kaydan a plot ك ي د
  11. إِنَّ inna Indeed
  12. ٱلشَّيْطَٰنَ l-shayṭāna the Shaitaan ش ط ن
  13. لِلْإِنسَٰنِ lil'insāni (is) to man أ ن س
  14. عَدُوٌّ ʿaduwwun an enemy ع د و
  15. مُّبِينٌ mubīnun open ب ي ن

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