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Surah 12.  Yusuf

In the name of ALLAH, the Benevolent, the Merciful

1.  Alif.  Lam.  Ra.  These are verses of The Book that makes plain.

2.  Lo!  We have revealed it, a Lecture in Arabic, that you may understand.

3.  We narrate to you the best of narratives in that We have inspired in you this Quran, though before you wast of the heedless.

4.  When Joseph said to his father:  O my father!  Lo!  I saw in a dream eleven planets and the sun and the moon, I saw them prostrating themselves to me.

5.  He said:  O my dear son!  Tell not your brethren of your vision.  lest they plot a plot against you.  Lo!  Satan is for man an open foe.

6.  Thus your Lord will prefer you and will teach you the interpretation of events, and will perfect his grace upon you and upon the family of Jacob as he perfected it upon your forefathers, Abraham and Isaac.  Lo!  your Lord is Knower, Wise.

 


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