Surah 12. Yusuf, Ayah 62
| وَقَالَ لِفِتْيَانِهِ اجْعَلُوا بِضَاعَتَهُمْ فِي رِحَالِهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَعْرِفُونَهَا إِذَا انْقَلَبُوا إِلَىٰ أَهْلِهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- qaala li- fityaan -hi ijcalo bid.aacah -hum fe rih.aal -him lacalla -hum yacrifon -haa 'idhaa inqalabo 'ilaa 'ahl -him lacalla -hum yarjicon |
| Pickthall | : | He said unto his young men: Place their merchandise in their saddlebags, so that they may know it when they go back to their folk, and so will come again. |
| Asad | : | And [Joseph] said to his servants: "Place their merchandise60 in their camel-packs, so that they may find it there when they come home, and hence be the more eager to return."61 |
| Malik | : | Yusuf told his servants to put his brother's money into their saddlebags secretly so that they should know about it only when they reach their family, so that they may come back again." |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And (Joseph) told his servants to put their stock in trade (with which they had bartered) into their saddlebags so they should know it only when they returned to their people in order that they might come back. 1722 1723 |
Note - 60I.e., the goods which they had bartered for wheat (Ibn
Kathir): a very plausible explanation in view of the fact
that barter was the most common form of trade in those
ancient times.
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Note - 61Lit., "so that they may perceive them when they come back
to their family, [and] that they may return".
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Note - 1722Bidha'at: stock in trade; capital with which business is
carried on; money-when it is used as capital for trade.
It is better here to suppose that they were bartering
goods for grain. Cf. xii. 19.
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Note - 1723It was most important for Joseph's plan that they should
come back. If they came back at all, they could not come
without Benjamin after what he had told them. As an
additional incentive to their coming back, he returns the
price of the grain in such a way that they should find it
in their saddle-bags when they reach home.
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I.e., the goods which they had bartered for wheat (Ibn Kathir): a very plausible explanation in view of the fact that barter was the most common form of trade in those ancient times. |
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Bidha'at: stock in trade; capital with which business is carried on; money-when it is used as capital for trade. It is better here to suppose that they were bartering goods for grain. Cf. xii. 19. |
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It was most important for Joseph's plan that they should come back. If they came back at all, they could not come without Benjamin after what he had told them. As an additional incentive to their coming back, he returns the price of the grain in such a way that they should find it in their saddle-bags when they reach home. |
