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19 Jamadilawal 1446H

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

Pray Time

Tafseer Ibn Kathir of YUSUF [65]



وَلَمَّا فَتَحُواْ مَتَاعَهُمْ وَجَدُواْ بِضَاعَتَهُمْ رُدَّتْ إِلَيْهِمْ قَالُواْ يَا أَبَانَا مَا نَبْغِي هَـذِهِ بِضَاعَتُنَا رُدَّتْ إِلَيْنَا وَنَمِيرُ أَهْلَنَا وَنَحْفَظُ أَخَانَا وَنَزْدَادُ كَيْلَ بَعِيرٍ ذَلِكَ كَيْلٌ يَسِيرٌ
And when they opened their baggage, they found their merchandise returned to them. They said, "O our father, what [more] could we desire? This is our merchandise returned to us. And we will obtain supplies for our family and protect our brother and obtain an increase of a camel's load; that is an easy measurement."
وَلَمَّا فَتَحُواْ مَتَـعَهُمْ وَجَدُواْ بِضَـعَتَهُمْ رُدَّتْ إِلَيْهِمْ قَالُواْ يأَبَانَا مَا نَبْغِى هَـذِهِ بِضَـعَتُنَا رُدَّتْ إِلَيْنَا وَنَمِيرُ أَهْلَنَا وَنَحْفَظُ أَخَانَا وَنَزْدَادُ كَيْلَ بَعِيرٍ ذلِكَ كَيْلٌ يَسِيرٌ - قَالَ لَنْ أُرْسِلَهُ مَعَكُمْ حَتَّى تُؤْتُونِ مَوْثِقًا مِّنَ اللَّهِ لَتَأْتُنَّنِى بِهِ إِلاَّ أَن يُحَاطَ بِكُمْ فَلَمَّآ ءَاتَوْهُ مَوْثِقَهُمْ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَلَى مَا نَقُولُ وَكِيلٌ
65. And when they opened their bags, they found their money had been returned to them. They said: ”O our father! What (more) can we desire This, our money has been returned to us; so we shall get (more) food for our family, and we shall guard our brother and add one more measure of a camel's load. This quantity is easy (for the king to give).'' 66. He Ya`qub said: ”I will not send him with you until you swear a solemn oath to me in Allah's Name, that you will bring him back to me unless you are yourselves surrounded (by enemies),'' And when they had sworn their solemn oath, he said: ”Allah is the Witness to what we have said.'' Allah says, when Yusuf's brothers opened their bags, they found their merchandise inside them, for Yusuf had ordered his servants to return it to their bags. When they found their merchandise in their bags,
قَالُواْ يأَبَانَا مَا نَبْغِى
(They said: ”O our father! What (more) can we desire...''), what more can we ask for,
هَـذِهِ بِضَـعَتُنَا رُدَّتْ إِلَيْنَا
(This, our money has been returned to us;) Qatadah commented (that they said), ”What more can we ask for, our merchandise was returned to us and the `Aziz has given us the sufficient load we wanted'' They said next,
وَنَمِيرُ أَهْلَنَا
(so we shall get (more) food for our family,), `if you send our brother with us the next time we go to buy food for our family,'
وَنَحْفَظُ أَخَانَا وَنَزْدَادُ كَيْلَ بَعِيرٍ
(and we shall guard our brother and add one more measure of a camel's load.) since Yusuf, peace be upon him, gave each man a camel's load of corn.
ذلِكَ كَيْلٌ يَسِيرٌ
(This quantity is easy (for the king to give).) They said these words to make their case more appealing, saying that taking their brother with them is worth this gain,
قَالَ لَنْ أُرْسِلَهُ مَعَكُمْ حَتَّى تُؤْتُونِ مَوْثِقًا مِّنَ اللَّهِ
(He ﴿Ya`qub (Jacob)﴾ said: ”I will not send him with you until you swear a solemn oath to me in Allah's Name...''), until you swear by Allah with the strongest oath,
لَتَأْتُنَّنِى بِهِ إِلاَّ أَن يُحَاطَ بِكُمْ
(that you will bring him back to me unless you are yourselves surrounded (by enemies)), unless you were all overwhelmed and were unable to rescue him,
فَلَمَّآ ءَاتَوْهُ مَوْثِقَهُمْ
(And when they had sworn their solemn oath), he affirmed it further, saying,
اللَّهُ عَلَى مَا نَقُولُ وَكِيلٌ
(Allah is the Witness to what we have said.) Ibn Ishaq commented, ”Ya`qub did that because he had no choice but to send them to bring necessary food supplies for their survival. So he sent Binyamin with them.''
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