Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
So I will never leave this land
until my father permits me,
or Allah passes a judgement for me,
and He is the best of judges.
Go back to your father,
and say, “Father!
Your son has indeed committed theft,
and we testified only to what we knew,1
and we could not have forestalled the unseen.
Ask [the people of] the town we were in,
and the caravan with which we came.
We indeed speak the truth.” ’
83 He 2 said, ‘Rather
your souls have made a matter seem decorous to you.
Yet patience is graceful.
Maybe Allah will bring them all [back] to me.
Indeed He is the All-knowing, the All-wise.’
84 And he turned away from them and said,
‘Alas for Joseph!’
His eyes had turned white with grief,
and he choked with suppressed agony.
85 They said, ‘By Allah!
You will go on remembering Joseph
until you wreck your health
or perish.’
86 He said,
‘I complain of my anguish and grief only
1 That is, concerning the penalty for theft according to the custom of the Canaanites.
2 That is, Jacob (‘a), after hearing what his sons had told him.
