يُوسُف : ٨٤

  • وَتَوَلَّىٰ And he turned away
  • عَنۡهُمۡ from them
  • وَقَالَ and said
  • يَٰٓأَسَفَىٰ Alas my grief
  • عَلَىٰ over
  • يُوسُفَ Yusuf!
  • وَٱبۡيَضَّتۡ And became white
  • عَيۡنَاهُ his eyes
  • مِنَ from
  • ٱلۡحُزۡنِ the grief
  • فَهُوَ and he (was)
  • كَظِيمٞ a suppressor
And he turned away from them and said, "Oh, my sorrow over Joseph," and his eyes became white1 from grief, for he was [of that] a suppressor.
Footnotes
1

i.e., he lost his sight.

[615] He did not express the extent of his grief or his anger at what he suspected his sons had done but was patient, depending only upon Allāh for help.

And he turned away from them, no longer addressing them, and said, 'Alas, my grief for Joseph!' (yaa asafaa: the [final] alif [of asafaa] has taken the place of the [possessive] yaa' of genitive annexation [sc. yaa asafee], in other words [it means] yaa huznee ['O my sorrow']). And his eyes turned white, their dark colour was effaced and became white on account of his tears, with grief, for him, such that he was [filled] with suppressed agony, anguished and grief-stricken, but not manifesting his grief.