Joseph
12. Yūsuf
يوسف
Page #237
12:18
وَجَاءُوا
عَلَى
قَمِيصِهِ
بِدَمٍ
كَذِبٍ
قَالَ
بَلْ
سَوَّلَتْ
لَكُمْ
أَنفُسُكُمْ
أَمْرًا
فَصَبْرٌ
جَمِيلٌ
وَاللَّهُ
الْمُسْتَعَانُ
عَلَى
مَا
تَصِفُونَ
wa-jāʾū ʿalā qamīṣihī bi-damin kadhibin qāla bal sawwalat lakum ʾanfusukum ʾamran fa-ṣabrun jamīlun wa-llāhu l-mustaʿānu ʿalā mā taṣifūna
And they produced sham blood on his shirt. He said, ‘No, your souls have made a matter seem decorous to you. Yet patience is graceful, and Allah is my resort against what you allege.’
— Ali Quli Qarai
They stained his shirt with false blood. He said: "Nay, but your minds have made up a tale (that may pass) with you, (for me) patience is most fitting: Against that which ye assert, it is Allah (alone) Whose help can be sought"..
