Text of verse 12:97
قَالُوا۟ يَٰٓأَبَانَا ٱسْتَغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا خَٰطِـِٔينَ ٩٧
Transliteration
qālū yāabānā is'taghfir lanā dhunūbanā innā kunnā khāṭiīna
Translation
They said, "O our father, ask for us forgiveness of our sins; indeed, we have been sinners."
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Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
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Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
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馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
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三田了一
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Verse 97 of Surah Yusuf (12:97), a Meccan surah, is in juz 13, on page 247 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 97
Al-Mukhtasar
The sons apologised to their father Jacob (peace be upon him) for what they had done to Joseph and his brother, and they asked their father to ask Allah to forgive the sins they had committed in the past, saying that they had been sinners and wrongdoers in what they did to Joseph and his full brother.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Yusuf
Other translations of verse 97
They said, “O our father, pray to Allah to forgive us our sins; we were certainly mistaken.”
They said: "O our father! Ask Forgiveness (from Allâh) for our sins, indeed we have been sinners."
They said: O our father! Ask forgiveness of our sins for us, for lo! we were sinful.
They said: "O our father! ask for us forgiveness for our sins, for we were truly at fault."
They said: O our father! ask forgiveness of our faults for us, surely we were sinners.
They said, "O our father, ask forgiveness of our guilty (deeds) for us; surely we have been sinners."
Verse 97 word by word
قَالُوا۟
qālū They said ق و ل
يَٰٓأَبَانَا
yāabānā O our father أ ب و
ٱسْتَغْفِرْ
is'taghfir Ask forgiveness غ ف ر
لَنَا
lanā for us
ذُنُوبَنَآ
dhunūbanā (of) our sins ذ ن ب
إِنَّا
innā Indeed, we
كُنَّا
kunnā have been ك و ن
خَٰطِـِٔينَ
khāṭiīna sinners خ ط أ
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