Ayah
Word by Word
قَالَ
He said
لَنۡ
Never
أُرۡسِلَهُۥ
will I send him
مَعَكُمۡ
with you
حَتَّىٰ
until
تُؤۡتُونِ
you give to me
مَوۡثِقٗا
a promise
مِّنَ
by
ٱللَّهِ
Allah
لَتَأۡتُنَّنِي
that surely you will bring him to me
بِهِۦٓ
that surely you will bring him to me
إِلَّآ
unless
أَن
that
يُحَاطَ
you are surrounded
بِكُمۡۖ
you are surrounded
فَلَمَّآ
And when
ءَاتَوۡهُ
they had given him
مَوۡثِقَهُمۡ
their promise
قَالَ
he said
ٱللَّهُ
Allah
عَلَىٰ
over
مَا
what
نَقُولُ
we say
وَكِيلٞ
(is) a Guardian
قَالَ
He said
لَنۡ
Never
أُرۡسِلَهُۥ
will I send him
مَعَكُمۡ
with you
حَتَّىٰ
until
تُؤۡتُونِ
you give to me
مَوۡثِقٗا
a promise
مِّنَ
by
ٱللَّهِ
Allah
لَتَأۡتُنَّنِي
that surely you will bring him to me
بِهِۦٓ
that surely you will bring him to me
إِلَّآ
unless
أَن
that
يُحَاطَ
you are surrounded
بِكُمۡۖ
you are surrounded
فَلَمَّآ
And when
ءَاتَوۡهُ
they had given him
مَوۡثِقَهُمۡ
their promise
قَالَ
he said
ٱللَّهُ
Allah
عَلَىٰ
over
مَا
what
نَقُولُ
we say
وَكِيلٞ
(is) a Guardian
Translation
(Jacob) said: "Never will I send him with you until ye swear a solemn oath to me, in Allah's name, that ye will be sure to bring him back to me unless ye are yourselves hemmed in (and made powerless). And when they had sworn their solemn oath, he said: "Over all that we say, be Allah the witness and guardian!"
Tafsir
He said, 'I will not send him with you until you give me a [solemn] pledge, a covenant, in the name of God, by your swearing an oath, that assuredly you will bring him back to me, unless you are besieged', such that you die, or are overwhelmed and thus unable to bring him back. They agreed to this. And when they gave him their [solemn] pledge, to this effect, he said, 'God shall be Guardian, Witness, over what we say', we and you. Thus he sent him with them.
"They find Their Money returned to Their Bags
Allah says
وَلَمَّا فَتَحُواۡ مَتَاعَهُمۡ وَجَدُواۡ بِضَاعَتَهُمۡ رُدَّتۡ إِلَيۡهِمۡ
And when they opened their bags, they found their money had been returned to them.
Allah says, when Yusuf's brothers opened their bags, they found their merchandise inside them, for Yusuf had ordered his servants to return it to their bags. When they found their merchandise in their bags,
قَالُواۡ يَا أَبَانَا مَا نَبۡغِي
They said:""O our father! What (more) can we desire..."",
what more can we ask for,
هَـذِهِ بِضَاعَتُنَا رُدَّتۡ إِلَيۡنَا
This, our money has been returned to us;
Qatadah commented (that they said),
""What more can we ask for, our merchandise was returned to us and the Aziz has given us the sufficient load we wanted.""
They said next,
وَنَمِيرُ أَهۡلَنَا
so we shall get (more) food for our family,
`if you send our brother with us the next time we go to buy food for our family,'
وَنَحۡفَظُ أَخَانَا وَنَزۡدَادُ كَيۡلَ بَعِيرٍ
and we shall guard our brother and add one more measure of a camel's load.
since Yusuf, peace be upon him, gave each man a camel's load of corn.
ذَلِكَ كَيۡلٌ يَسِيرٌ
This quantity is easy (for the king to give).
They said these words to make their case more appealing, saying that taking their brother with them is worth this gain
قَالَ لَنۡ أُرۡسِلَهُ مَعَكُمۡ حَتَّى تُوۡتُونِ مَوۡثِقًا مِّنَ اللّهِ
He (Yaqub (Jacob)) said:""I will not send him with you until you swear a solemn oath to me in Allah's Name...""),
until you swear by Allah with the strongest oath,
لَتَأۡتُنَّنِي بِهِ إِلاَّ أَن يُحَاطَ بِكُمۡ
that you will bring him back to me unless you are yourselves surrounded (by enemies),
unless you were all overwhelmed and were unable to rescue him,
فَلَمَّا اتَوۡهُ مَوۡثِقَهُمۡ
And when they had sworn their solemn oath,
he affirmed it further, saying,
قَالَ اللّهُ عَلَى مَا نَقُولُ وَكِيلٌ
he said:""Allah is the Witness to what we have said.""
Ibn Ishaq commented,
""Yaqub did that because he had no choice but to send them to bring necessary food supplies for their survival. So he sent Binyamin with them."
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