Surah 12 Yusuf — Ayah 4
إِذْ قَالَ يُوسُفُ لِأَبِيهِ يَٰٓأَبَتِ إِنِّى رَأَيْتُ أَحَدَ عَشَرَ كَوْكَبًۭا وَٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ رَأَيْتُهُمْ لِى سَٰجِدِينَ
ዩሱፍ ለአባቱ፡- «አባቴ ሆይ! እኔ ዐስራ አንድ ከዋክብትን ፀሐይንና ጨረቃንም (በሕልሜ) አየሁ፡፡ ለእኔ ሰጋጆች ሆነው አየኋቸው» ባለ ጊዜ (አስታውስ)፡፡
idh qāla yūsufu li-abīhi yāabati innī ra-aytu aḥada ʿashara kawkaban wal-shamsa wal-qamara ra-aytuhum lī sājidīna
Word by word
- إِذْ idh When
- قَالَ qāla said
- يُوسُفُ yūsufu Yusuf
- لِأَبِيهِ li-abīhi to his father
- يَـٰٓأَبَتِ yāabati O my father
- إِنِّى innī Indeed, I
- رَأَيْتُ ra-aytu I saw
- أَحَدَ aḥada eleven
- عَشَرَ ʿashara eleven
- كَوْكَبًۭا kawkaban stars
- وَٱلشَّمْسَ wal-shamsa and the sun
- وَٱلْقَمَرَ wal-qamara and the moon
- رَأَيْتُهُمْ ra-aytuhum I saw them
- لِى lī to me
- سَـٰجِدِينَ sājidīna prostrating
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Yusuf's Dream
Allah says, `Mention to your people, O Muhammad, among the stories that you narrate to them, the story of Yusuf.' Prophet Yusuf (Joseph) mentioned his dream to his father, Prophet Ya`qub (Jacob), son of Prophet Ishaq (Isaac), son of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham), peace be upon them all. `Abdullah bin `Abbas stated that the dreams of Prophets are revelations from Allah. Scholars of Tafsir explained that in Yusuf's dream the eleven stars represent his brothers, who were eleven, and the sun and the moon represent his father and mother. This explanation was collected from Ibn `Abbas, Ad-Dahhak, Qatadah, Sufyan Ath-Thawri and `Abdur-Rahman bin Zayd bin Aslam. Yusuf's vision became a reality forty years later, or as some say, eighty years, when Yusuf raised his parents to the throne while his brothers were before him,
(and they fell down before him prostrate. And he said: "O my father! This is the interpretation of my dream aforetime! My Lord has made it come true!")