Joseph
12. Yūsuf
يوسف
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12:8
إِذْ
قَالُوا
لَيُوسُفُ
وَأَخُوهُ
أَحَبُّ
إِلَى
أَبِينَا
مِنَّا
وَنَحْنُ
عُصْبَةٌ
إِنَّ
أَبَانَا
لَفِي
ضَلَالٍ
مُّبِينٍ
ʾidh qālū la-yūsufu wa-ʾakhūhu ʾaḥabbu ʾilā ʾabīnā minnā wa-naḥnu ʿuṣbatun ʾinna ʾabānā la-fī ḍalālin mubīnin-i
They said: "Truly Joseph and his brother are loved more by our father than we: But we are a goodly body! really our father is obviously wandering (in his mind)!
— Abdullah Yusufali
When they said, ‘Surely Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than [the rest of] us, though we are a hardy band. Our father is indeed in manifest error.’