سورة يوسف، الآية ٩١
قَالُوا۟ تَٱللَّهِ لَقَدْ ءَاثَرَكَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْنَا وَإِن كُنَّا لَخَٰطِـِٔينَ ٩١
qālū tal-lahi laqad ātharaka l-lahu ʿalaynā wa-in kunnā lakhāṭiīna
They said, "By Allāh, certainly has Allāh preferred you over us, and indeed, we have been sinners."
Verse 91 of Surah Yusuf (12:91), 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.
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The brothers apologised to Joseph for their behaviour towards him, and they said that Allah had indeed preferred him over them through the attributes of perfection He had given to him, and that they had committed evil and disobedience in what they had done to him.
They said, “By Allah, Allah has favored you37 over us, and we have surely been sinful.”
[37] Finally, they admitted that he was the ‘favored one’.
They said: "By Allâh! Indeed Allâh has preferred you above us, and we certainly have been sinners."
They said: By Allah, verily Allah hath preferred thee above us, and we were indeed sinful.
They said: "By Allah! indeed has Allah preferred thee above us, and we certainly have been guilty of sin!"
They said: By Allah! now has Allah certainly chosen you over us, and we were certainly sinners.
They said, "By Allah! Indeed, Allah has already preferred you above us, and decidedly we were indeed sinners."
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.
فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا …
For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease [i.e., relief]. …
