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Surah Yusuf, Verse 61

سورة يوسف، الآية ٦١

12:61 Juz 13 Hizb 25 Page 242 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 12:61

قَالُوا۟ سَنُرَٰوِدُ عَنْهُ أَبَاهُ وَإِنَّا لَفَٰعِلُونَ ۝٦١

Transliteration

qālū sanurāwidu ʿanhu abāhu wa-innā lafāʿilūna

Translation

They said, "We will attempt to dissuade his father from [keeping] him, and indeed, we will do [it]."

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Verse 61 of Surah Yusuf (12:61), a Meccan surah, is in juz 13, on page 242 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 61

Al-Mukhtasar

His brothers replied to him, saying that they would ask for him from their father, and would work hard to bring him, doing what Joseph instructed them without fail.

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Other translations of verse 61

They said, “We will persuade his father to send him24, and we will surely do our best.”

Notes

[24] They knew its difficulty, but they still made a promise.

They said: "We shall try to get permission (for him) from his father, and verily, we shall do it."

They said: We will try to win him from his father: that we will surely do.

They said: "We shall certainly seek to get our wish about him from his father: Indeed we shall do it."

They said: We will strive to make his father yield in respect of him, and we are sure to do (it).

They said, "We will soon solicit him of his father, and surely we will indeed be performing (that)."

Verse 61 word by word

  1. قَالُوا۟ qālū They said ق و ل
  2. سَنُرَٰوِدُ sanurāwidu We will try to get permission ر و د
  3. عَنْهُ ʿanhu for him
  4. أَبَاهُ abāhu (from) his father أ ب و
  5. وَإِنَّا wa-innā and indeed we
  6. لَفَٰعِلُونَ lafāʿilūna surely will do ف ع ل

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