Text of verse 12:89
قَالَ هَلْ عَلِمْتُم مَّا فَعَلْتُم بِيُوسُفَ وَأَخِيهِ إِذْ أَنتُمْ جَٰهِلُونَ ٨٩
Transliteration
qāla hal ʿalim'tum mā faʿaltum biyūsufa wa-akhīhi idh antum jāhilūna
Translation
He said, "Do you know what you did with Joseph and his brother when you were ignorant?"
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Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
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Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
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Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
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馬堅
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Verse 89 of Surah Yusuf (12:89), a Meccan surah, is in juz 13, on page 246 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 89
Al-Mukhtasar
When he heard their words he felt compassion towards them, and let them know who he was, asking them if they knew what they did to Joseph and his full brother when they were ignorant of the consequences of what they did to them.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Yusuf
Other translations of verse 89
He said, “Do you know what you did to Joseph and his brother when you were ignorant35 ?”
Notes [35] He provided them with a face-saving excuse by saying that they were ignorant for what they did.
He said: "Do you know what you did with Yûsuf (Joseph) and his brother, when you were ignorant?"
He said: Know ye what ye did unto Joseph and his brother in your ignorance?
He said: "Know ye how ye dealt with Joseph and his brother, not knowing (what ye were doing)?"
He said: Do you know how you treated Yusuf and his brother when you were ignorant?
He said, "Do you know what you committed (Literally: what you perfomed with) with Yusuf (Joseph) and his brother as you were ignorant?"
Verse 89 word by word
قَالَ
qāla He said ق و ل
هَلْ
hal Do
عَلِمْتُم
ʿalim'tum you know ع ل م
مَّا
mā what
فَعَلْتُم
faʿaltum you did ف ع ل
بِيُوسُفَ
biyūsufa with Yusuf
وَأَخِيهِ
wa-akhīhi and his brother أ خ و
إِذْ
idh when
أَنتُمْ
antum you were
جَٰهِلُونَ
jāhilūna ignorant ج ه ل
Verses related to verse 89
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
An-Nahl 16:119
ثُمَّ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لِلَّذِينَ عَمِلُوا۟ ٱلسُّوٓءَ بِجَهَٰلَةٍ ثُمَّ تَابُوا۟ مِنۢ بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ وَأَصْلَحُوٓا۟ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهَا لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
Then, indeed your Lord, to those who have done wrong out of ignorance and then repent after that and correct themselves - indeed, your Lord, thereafter, is Forgiving and Merciful.
Ash-Sharh 94:5–6
فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا …
For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease [i.e., relief]. …
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