Vertaling van de betekenissen Surah Joesoef - Engelse vertaling - Abdoellah Hassan Yaqoeb. - Pagina nummer 244 - The Heilige Qur'an Encyclopedie

Vers: 70

فَلَمَّا جَهَّزَهُم بِجَهَازِهِمۡ جَعَلَ ٱلسِّقَايَةَ فِي رَحۡلِ أَخِيهِ ثُمَّ أَذَّنَ مُؤَذِّنٌ أَيَّتُهَا ٱلۡعِيرُ إِنَّكُمۡ لَسَٰرِقُونَ

70. So when he had furnished them with their 'needed' supplies, (someone) placed the (gold measuring) bowl in his brother’s bag. Then a caller called out: "O caravan, Indeed, you are thieves."

Vers: 71

قَالُواْ وَأَقۡبَلُواْ عَلَيۡهِم مَّاذَا تَفۡقِدُونَ

71. (The brothers) said, while turning on them: "What is that you have lost?"

Vers: 72

قَالُواْ نَفۡقِدُ صُوَاعَ ٱلۡمَلِكِ وَلِمَن جَآءَ بِهِۦ حِمۡلُ بَعِيرٖ وَأَنَا۠ بِهِۦ زَعِيمٞ

72. (The King’s servants) said: "We miss the king’s (gold measuring) bowl and he who will bring it will have a camel-load (of grain as reward), and I am responsible for it."

Vers: 73

قَالُواْ تَٱللَّهِ لَقَدۡ عَلِمۡتُم مَّا جِئۡنَا لِنُفۡسِدَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا كُنَّا سَٰرِقِينَ

73. (The brothers) said: "By Allāh, you know for certain that we have not come to make mischief in the land, and we are not thieves."

Vers: 74

قَالُواْ فَمَا جَزَٰٓؤُهُۥٓ إِن كُنتُمۡ كَٰذِبِينَ

74. (The king’s servants) asked: "But what shall be the penalty of him, if you are (proved to be) liars?"

Vers: 75

قَالُواْ جَزَٰٓؤُهُۥ مَن وُجِدَ فِي رَحۡلِهِۦ فَهُوَ جَزَٰٓؤُهُۥۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نَجۡزِي ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

75. (The brothers) said: "The penalty of this is (the enslavement of) the person in whose bag the cup is found17; thus do we recompense the evildoers."

17. I.e., be placed in servitude to the one from whom he had stolen.

Vers: 76

فَبَدَأَ بِأَوۡعِيَتِهِمۡ قَبۡلَ وِعَآءِ أَخِيهِ ثُمَّ ٱسۡتَخۡرَجَهَا مِن وِعَآءِ أَخِيهِۚ كَذَٰلِكَ كِدۡنَا لِيُوسُفَۖ مَا كَانَ لِيَأۡخُذَ أَخَاهُ فِي دِينِ ٱلۡمَلِكِ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُۚ نَرۡفَعُ دَرَجَٰتٖ مَّن نَّشَآءُۗ وَفَوۡقَ كُلِّ ذِي عِلۡمٍ عَلِيمٞ

76. So he began with their bags before the bag of his brother (Benjamin), then he brought it out from his brother’s bag. Thus did We plan for Joseph; it was not (lawful) that he should take his brother under the king’s law unless Allāh willed. We raise in degrees whomever We will. And over every knowledgeable person is one more knowing18

18. Until the knowledge ends with Allāh, the All-Knowing.

Vers: 77

۞ قَالُوٓاْ إِن يَسۡرِقۡ فَقَدۡ سَرَقَ أَخٞ لَّهُۥ مِن قَبۡلُۚ فَأَسَرَّهَا يُوسُفُ فِي نَفۡسِهِۦ وَلَمۡ يُبۡدِهَا لَهُمۡۚ قَالَ أَنتُمۡ شَرّٞ مَّكَانٗاۖ وَٱللَّهُ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَا تَصِفُونَ

77. (Joseph's) brothers said: "If he steals, then a brother of his did steal before19." But Joseph kept it to himself and did not reveal it to them. He said (within himself): "You are in a worse position. And Allāh knows best of what you are describing (of slander)."

19. I.e, Joseph — he stole a golden idol from his maternal grandfather and smashed it, lest it be taken for worship.

Vers: 78

قَالُواْ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلۡعَزِيزُ إِنَّ لَهُۥٓ أَبٗا شَيۡخٗا كَبِيرٗا فَخُذۡ أَحَدَنَا مَكَانَهُۥٓۖ إِنَّا نَرَىٰكَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُحۡسِنِينَ

78. (The brothers) said: "O noble minister, he has a father, a very old man, so take one of us in his place. Indeed, we see that you are one of the good-doers."