The Quran

سورة یُوسُف

Surah Yûsuf 12:62

Joseph · Verse 62 of 111

وَقَالَ لِفِتْيَانِهِ اجْعَلُوا بِضَاعَتَهُمْ فِي رِحَالِهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَعْرِفُونَهَا إِذَا انْقَلَبُوا إِلَىٰ أَهْلِهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

And he said to his servants, `Put their cash (they paid for the corn) in their saddle-bags,´ (and to himself,) `that they may recognize it (as benevolence) when they return to their family and perhaps they may come back (with his brother on this account).´

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And (Joseph) told his servants to put their stock-in-trade (with which they had bartered) into their saddle-bags, so they should know it only when they returned to their people, in order that they might come back.

Ahmed Ali

Then he ordered his servants: "Put their money back in their packs: They may find it on reaching home, and perhaps come again."

12 more translations

Ali Unal

He (Joseph) said to his servants: "Put back their merchandise (with which they had bartered) into their saddlebags, so that they may find it there when they have returned home, and hence will (be more eager to) return."

Daryabadi

And he said to his pages: place their goods in their packs, haply they will recognize them when they reach back to their household: haply they will return.

Faridul Haque

He said to his slaves, "Place their means back into their sacks, perhaps they may recognise it when they return to their homes, perhaps they may come again."

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And he said to his servants: Put their money into their bags that they may recognize it when they go back to their family, so that they may come back.

Maulvi Sher Ali

And he said to his servants, `Put their money back into their saddle-bags that they may recognize it when they return to their family; haply, they may come back.'

Muhammad Asad

And [Joseph] said to his servants: "Place their merchandise in their camel-packs, so that they may find it there when they come home, and hence be the more eager to return.

Muhammad Musin Khan

And [Yusuf (Joseph)] told his servants to put their money (with which they had bought the corn) into their bags, so that they might know it when they go back to their people, in order that they might come back.

Muhammad Pickthall

He said unto his young men: Place their merchandise in their saddlebags, so that they may know it when they go back to their folk, and so will come again.

Muhammad Sarwar

Then Joseph told his people to put his brothers' money back into their bags so that perhaps they would recognize it, when at home, and come back to Egypt once again.

Muhammed ali Shakir

And he said to his servants: Put their money into their bags that they may recognize it when they go back to their family, so that they may come back.

Rashad Khalifa

He then instructed his assistants: "Put their goods back in their bags. When they find them upon their return to their family, they may come back sooner."

Shabbir Ahmed

Joseph said to his servants, “Load their barter (the price of wheat) back in their saddlebags, so that they may find it when they go home, and hence be more eager to return.”