Surah 12 Yusuf — Ayah 90
قَالُوٓا۟ أَءِنَّكَ لَأَنتَ يُوسُفُ ۖ قَالَ أَنَا۠ يُوسُفُ وَهَٰذَآ أَخِى ۖ قَدْ مَنَّ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْنَآ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ مَن يَتَّقِ وَيَصْبِرْ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ
එයට ඔවුන් (තිගැස්සී) “ඇත්තෙන්ම ඔබ යූසුෆ් වශයෙන් සිටින්නෙහිද?”යි විමසූහ. එයට ඔහු “මමයි යූසුෆ්. මොහු මගේ සහෝදරයාය. නියත වශයෙන්ම අල්ලාහ් අප කෙරෙහි ඉමහත් වරප්රසාදයන් පහළ කර ඇත්තේය. මන්දයත් නියත වශයෙන්ම කවුරුන් පරිශූද්ධවන්තයෙකු වශයෙන් සිටිමින් (දුක් ගැහැටද) විඳ දරා ගන්නෝද, (එවැනි) හොඳ දැය කරන්නන්ගේ ඵලවිපාක නියත වශයෙන්ම අල්ලාහ් අපතේ හරින්නේ නැත” යයි පැවසුවේය.
qālū a-innaka la-anta yūsufu qāla anā yūsufu wahādhā akhī qad manna l-lahu ʿalaynā innahu man yattaqi wayaṣbir fa-inna l-laha lā yuḍīʿu ajra l-muḥ'sinīna
Word by word
- قَالُوٓا۟ qālū They said
- أَءِنَّكَ a-innaka Are you indeed
- لَأَنتَ la-anta surely you
- يُوسُفُ ۖ yūsufu Yusuf
- قَالَ qāla He said
- أَنَا۠ anā I am
- يُوسُفُ yūsufu Yusuf
- وَهَـٰذَآ wahādhā and this
- أَخِى ۖ akhī (is) my brother
- قَدْ qad Indeed
- مَنَّ manna Allah has been gracious
- ٱللَّهُ l-lahu Allah has been gracious
- عَلَيْنَآ ۖ ʿalaynā to us
- إِنَّهُۥ innahu Indeed, he
- مَن man who
- يَتَّقِ yattaqi fears Allah
- وَيَصْبِرْ wayaṣbir and (is) patient
- فَإِنَّ fa-inna then indeed
- ٱللَّهَ l-laha Allah
- لَا lā (does) not
- يُضِيعُ yuḍīʿu let go waste
- أَجْرَ ajra (the) reward
- ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ l-muḥ'sinīna (of) the good-doers
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Yusuf reveals His True Identity to His Brothers and forgives Them
Allah says, when Yusuf's brothers told him about the afflictions and hardship, and shortages in food they suffered from in the aftermath of the drought that struck them, and he remembered his father's grief for losing his two children, he felt compassion, pity and mercy for his father and brothers. He felt this way, especially since he was enjoying kingship, authority and power, so he cried and revealed his true identity to them when he asked them,
(Do you know what you did with Yusuf and his brother, when you were ignorant) meaning, `when you separated between Yusuf and his brother,'
(when you were ignorant) He said, `What made you do this is your ignorance of the tremendous sin you were about to commit.' It appears, and Allah knows best, that Yusuf revealed his identity to his brothers only then by Allah's command, just as he hid his identity from them in the first two meetings, by Allah's command. When the affliction became harder, Allah sent His relief from that affliction, just as He said He does,
(Verily, along with every hardship is relief. Verily, along with every hardship is relief.)94:5-6 This is when they said to Yusuf,
(Are you indeed Yusuf), in amazement, because they had been meeting him for more than two years while unaware of who he really was. Yet, he knew who they were and hid this news from them. Therefore, they asked in astonishment,
(Are you indeed Yusuf He said: "I am Yusuf, and this is my brother...") Yusuf said next,
`(Allah has indeed been gracious to us.) by gathering us together after being separated all this time,'
("Verily, he who has Taqwa, and is patient, then surely, Allah makes not the reward of the gooddoers to be lost." They said: "By Allah! Indeed Allah has preferred you above us.") They affirmed Yusuf's virtue above them, being blessed with beauty, conduct, richness, kingship, authority and, above all, prophethood. They admitted their error and acknowledged that they made a mistake against him,
(He said: "No reproach on you this day.") He said to them, `There will be no blame for you today or admonishment, and I will not remind you after today of your error against me.' He then multiplied his generosity by invoking Allah for them for mercy,
(may Allah forgive you, and He is the Most Merciful of those who show mercy!)