Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

and He is the most merciful of the merciful.
93 Take this shirt of mine,
and cast it upon my father’s face;
he will regain his sight,
and bring me all your folks.’
94 As the caravan set off, their father said,
‘I sense the scent of Joseph,
if you will not consider me a dotard.’
95 They said, ‘By God,
you persist in your inveterate error.’
96 When the bearer of good news arrived,
he cast it 1 on his face,
and he regained his sight.
He said, ‘Did I not tell you,
“I know from Allah what you do not know?” ’
97 They said, ‘Father!
Plead [with Allah] for forgiveness of our sins!
We have indeed been erring.’
98 He said,
‘I shall plead with my Lord to forgive you;
indeed He is the All-forgiving, the All-merciful.’
99 When they entered into the presence of Joseph,
he set his parents close to himself,
and said, ‘Welcome to Egypt,
in safety, God willing!’
100 And he seated his parents high upon the throne,
and they fell down prostrate before him.
He said, ‘Father!
This is the fulfillment of my dream of long ago,

1 That is, the shirt of Joseph (‘a).

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Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation, Islamic College for Advance Studies Press (ICAS), London (Distributed by The Centre for Translation of the Holy Qur’ān, Qom, Iran), Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 16 Jan. 2025: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=369