Surah 12. Yusuf, Ayah 10
| قَالَ قَائِلٌ مِنْهُمْ لَا تَقْتُلُوا يُوسُفَ وَأَلْقُوهُ فِي غَيَابَتِ الْجُبِّ يَلْتَقِطْهُ بَعْضُ السَّيَّارَةِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ فَاعِلِينَ |
| Transliteration | : | qaala qaa'il min -hum laa taqtulo yosuf wa- alqo -hu fe ghayaabah al- jubb yaltaqit. -hu bacd. as- sayyaarah 'in kuntum faacilen |
| Pickthall | : | One among them said: Kill not Joseph but, if ye must be doing, fling him into the depth of the pit; some caravan will find him. |
| Asad | : | Another of them said: "Do not slay Joseph, but rather - if you must do something - cast him into the dark depths of this well, [whence] some caravan may pick him up."15 |
| Malik | : | At this one of them said: "Do not kill Yusuf, but if you must, throw him into some dark well, so that he may be picked up by some passing by caravan." |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Said one of them: "Slay not Joseph but if ye must do something throw him down to the bottom of the well: he will be picked up by some caravan of travellers." 1641 |
Note - 15Sc., "and take him with them to a faraway land" (cf. the
preceding verse). The term jubb - rendered by me as
"well" - is usually applied to a desert well simply cut
through the earth or through rock and not cased with
stone: the implication being that this particular well
did not contain enough water to drown Joseph, but was
deep enough to hide him from sight.
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Note - 1641One of the brethren, perhaps less cruel by nature, or
perhaps more worldly-wise, said: "Why undertake the risk
of blood-guiltiness? Throw him into the well you see
there! Some travellers passing by will pick him up and
remove him to a far country. If not, at least we shall
not have killed him," This was false casuistry, but such
casuistry appeals to sinners of a certain kind of
temperament. The well was apparently a dry well, deep
enough to prevent his coming out, but with no water in
which he could be drowned. It was Allah's Plan to save
him alive, but not to make Joseph indebted to any of his
brethren for his life!
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Sc., "and take him with them to a faraway land" (cf. the preceding verse). The term jubb - rendered by me as "well" - is usually applied to a desert well simply cut through the earth or through rock and not cased with stone: the implication being that this particular well did not contain enough water to drown Joseph, but was deep enough to hide him from sight. |
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One of the brethren, perhaps less cruel by nature, or perhaps more worldly-wise, said: "Why undertake the risk of blood-guiltiness? Throw him into the well you see there! Some travellers passing by will pick him up and remove him to a far country. If not, at least we shall not have killed him," This was false casuistry, but such casuistry appeals to sinners of a certain kind of temperament. The well was apparently a dry well, deep enough to prevent his coming out, but with no water in which he could be drowned. It was Allah's Plan to save him alive, but not to make Joseph indebted to any of his brethren for his life! |
