Y: "'Ask at the town where we have been and the caravan in which we
returned, and (you will find) we are indeed telling the truth.'"

P: Ask the township where we were, and the caravan with which we
travelled hither. Lo! we speak the truth.

S: And inquire in the town in which we were and the caravan with which
we proceeded, and most surely we are truthful.

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Y: Jacob said: "Nay, but ye have yourselves contrived a story (good
enough) for you. So patience is most fitting (for me). Maybe Allah will
bring them (back) all to me (in the end). For He is indeed full of
knowledge and wisdom."

P: (And when they came unto their father and had spoken thus to him) he
said: Nay, but your minds have beguiled you into something. (My course
is) comely patience! It may be that Allah will bring them all unto me.
Lo! He, only He, is the Knower, the Wise.

S: He (Yaqoub) said: Nay, your souls have made a matter light for you,
so patience is good; maybe Allah will bring them all together to me;
surely He is the Knowing, the Wise.

012.084
Y: And he turned away from them, and said: "How great is my grief for
Joseph!" And his eyes became white with sorrow, and he fell into silent
melancholy.

P: And he turned away from them and said: Alas, my grief for Joseph! And
his eyes were whitened with the sorrow that he was suppressing.

S: And he turned away from them, and said: O my sorrow for Yusuf! and
his eyes became white on account of the grief, and he was a repressor
(of grief).

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Y: They said: "By Allah! (never) wilt thou cease to remember Joseph
until thou reach the last extremity of illness, or until thou die!"

P: They said: By Allah, thou wilt never cease remembering Joseph till
thy health is ruined or thou art of those who perish!

S: They said: By Allah! you will not cease to remember Yusuf until you
are a prey to constant disease or (until) you are of those who perish.

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Y: He said: "I only complain of my distraction and anguish to Allah, and
I know from Allah that which ye know not..."

P: He said: I expose my distress and anguish only unto Allah, and I know
from Allah that which ye know not.

S: He said: I only complain of my grief and sorrow to Allah, and I know
from Allah what you do not know.

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Y: "O my sons! go ye and enquire about Joseph and his brother, and never
give up hope of Allah's Soothing Mercy: truly no one despairs of
Allah's Soothing Mercy, except those who have no f