سورة یُوسُف
Surah Yûsuf 12:13
Joseph · Verse 13 of 111
قَالَ إِنِّي لَيَحْزُنُنِي أَنْ تَذْهَبُوا بِهِ وَأَخَافُ أَنْ يَأْكُلَهُ الذِّئْبُ وَأَنْتُمْ عَنْهُ غَافِلُونَ
Abdul Mannan Omar
He said, `It worries me that you should take him away. Moreover, I fear lest a wolf should devour him while you are heedless of him.´
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
(Jacob) said: "Really it saddens me that ye should take him away: I fear lest the wolf should devour him while ye attend not to him.
Ahmed Ali
He said: "I am afraid of sending him with you lest a wolf should devour him when you are unmindful."
12 more translations
Ali Unal
He (Jacob) said: "Indeed, it grieves me that you should take him with you, and I fear lest a wolf should devour him while you are inattentive of him."
Daryabadi
He said: verily it grieveth me that ye should take him away, and I fear lest a wolf may devour him, While ye are negligent of him.
Faridul Haque
He said, "I will indeed be saddened by your taking him away, and I fear that the wolf may devour him, whilst you are unaware of him." (* Prophet Yaqub knew of what was about to happen.)
Maulana Muhammad Ali
He said: Indeed it grieves me that you should take him away and I fear lest the wolf devour him, while you are heedless of him.
Maulvi Sher Ali
He said, `It grieves me that you should take him away, and I fear lest the wolf should devour him while you are heedless of him.'
Muhammad Asad
[Jacob] answered: "Behold, it grieves me indeed [to think] that you might take him with you, for I dread lest the wolf devour him at a moment when you are heedless of him!"
Muhammad Musin Khan
He [Ya'qub (Jacob)] said: "Truly, it saddens me that you should take him away. I fear lest a wolf should devour him, while you are careless of him."
Muhammad Pickthall
He said: Lo! in truth it saddens me that ye should take him with you, and I fear less the wolf devour him while ye are heedless of him.
Muhammad Sarwar
Jacob replied, "I shall be grieved if you take him with you; I fear that some wild-beast will harm him in your absence."
Muhammed ali Shakir
He said: Surely it grieves me that you should take him off, and I fear lest the wolf devour him while you are heedless of him.
Rashad Khalifa
He said, "I worry lest you go away with him, then the wolf may devour him while you are not watching him."
Shabbir Ahmed
Jacob said, "I worry that you take him with you to the wild and some wolf devours him when you are distracted.”
Commentary 12:13 Unlike in the Bibles narration, Jacob immediately doubted the sincerity of the brothers of Joseph. As a prophet of Allâh, Jacob sensed evil plot by his…
قَالَ إِنِّي لَيَحْزُنُنِي أَن تَذْهَبُوا بِهِ وَأَخَافُ أَن يَأْكُلَهُ الذِّئْبُ وَأَنتُمْ عَنْهُ غَافِلُونَ
12:13 Unlike in the Bibles narration, Jacob immediately doubted the sincerity of the brothers of Joseph. As a prophet of Allâh, Jacob sensed evil plot by his children against their half-brother Joseph. When at nightfall they returned to him weeping and asserted that a wolf had devoured Joseph, he at once said, “This is not true, but you yourselves have made a (malicious) thing seem fair to you.” (12:18). His advanced knowledge is also evident from his expression of hope in verse 83 of this chapter. He was never convinced that Joseph was truly dead, although his other sons always wanted him to believe so.