سورة يوسف، الآية ٧٣
قَالُوا۟ تَٱللَّهِ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتُم مَّا جِئْنَا لِنُفْسِدَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا كُنَّا سَٰرِقِينَ ٧٣
qālū tal-lahi laqad ʿalim'tum mā ji'nā linuf'sida fī l-arḍi wamā kunnā sāriqīna
They said, "By Allāh, you have certainly known that we did not come to cause corruption in the land, and we have not been thieves."
Verse 73 of Surah Yusuf (12:73), a Meccan surah, is in juz 13, on page 244 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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The brothers of Joseph swore by Allah that those accusing them knew they were free of blame and innocent of this, as they could see from their situation, and that they had not come to the land of Egypt to cause corruption in it, and that they had never been thieves.
They said, “By Allah, you know well that we did not come to spread corruption in the land, nor are we thieves.”
They said: "By Allâh! Indeed you know that we came not to make mischief in the land, and we are no thieves!"
They said: By Allah, well ye know we came not to do evil in the land, and are no thieves.
(The brothers) said: "By Allah! well ye know that we came not to make mischief in the land, and we are no thieves!"
They said: By Allah! you know for certain that we have not come to make mischief in the land, and we are not thieves.
They said, "By (The Arabic here is at-llahi, which is a stronger oath than the usual we-llahi) Allah, indeed you already know that in no way have we come to corrupt in the land and in no way are we thieves."
