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Surah Yusuf, Verse 85

سورة يوسف، الآية ٨٥

12:85 Juz 13 Hizb 25 Page 245 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 12:85

قَالُوا۟ تَٱللَّهِ تَفْتَؤُا۟ تَذْكُرُ يُوسُفَ حَتَّىٰ تَكُونَ حَرَضًا أَوْ تَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْهَٰلِكِينَ ۝٨٥

Transliteration

qālū tal-lahi tafta-u tadhkuru yūsufa ḥattā takūna ḥaraḍan aw takūna mina l-hālikīna

Translation

They said, "By Allāh, you will not cease remembering Joseph until you become fatally ill or become of those who perish."

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Verse 85 of Surah Yusuf (12:85), a Meccan surah, is in juz 13, on page 245 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 85

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The brothers of Joseph said to the father, swearing by Allah, that he would not stop remembering Joseph and grieving over him until he became very ill or actually died.

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Other translations of verse 85

They said, “By Allah, you will not cease to remember Joseph until your health is ruined or you die.”

They said: "By Allâh! You will never cease remembering Yûsuf (Joseph) until you become weak with old age, or until you be of the dead."

They said: By Allah, thou wilt never cease remembering Joseph till thy health is ruined or thou art of those who perish!

They said: "By Allah! (never) wilt thou cease to remember Joseph until thou reach the last extremity of illness, or until thou die!"

They said: By Allah! you will not cease to remember Yusuf until you are a prey to constant disease or (until) you are of those who perish.

They said, "By Allah you will keep on remembering Yusuf (Joseph) till you are decrepit, or among the perishing."

Verse 85 word by word

  1. قَالُوا۟ qālū They said ق و ل
  2. تَٱللَّهِ tal-lahi By Allah
  3. تَفْتَؤُا۟ tafta-u you will not cease ف ت أ
  4. تَذْكُرُ tadhkuru remembering ذ ك ر
  5. يُوسُفَ yūsufa Yusuf
  6. حَتَّىٰ ḥattā until
  7. تَكُونَ takūna you become ك و ن
  8. حَرَضًا ḥaraḍan fatally ill ح ر ض
  9. أَوْ aw or
  10. تَكُونَ takūna become ك و ن
  11. مِنَ mina of
  12. ٱلْهَٰلِكِينَ l-hālikīna those who perish ه ل ك

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