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| 5. He said, `O my dear son, relate not thy dream to thy brothers, lest they contrive a plot against thee, for Satan is to man an open enemy. 6. `And thus, as thou hast seen, thy Lord shall choose thee and teach thee the interpretations of things divine and perfect HIS favour upon thee and upon the family of Jacob as HE perfected it upon thy two forefathers - Abraham and Isaac. Verily, thy Lord is All-Knowing, Wise.' 7. Surely, in Joseph and his brethren there are Signs for the inquirers; 8. When they said to each other, `Verily, Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than we are, although we are a strong party. Surely, our father is in manifest error; 9. So contrive to kill Joseph or cast him out to some distant land, so that your father's favour may become exclusively yours, and you can thereafter repent and become a righteous people.' 10. One of them said, `Kill not Joseph, but if you must do something, cast him into the bottom of a deep well; some of the travelers will pick him up. 11. They said, `O our father, why dost thou not trust us with respect to Joseph, when we are certainly his sincere well-wishers ? 12. `Send him with us tomorrow that he may enjoy himself and play, and we shall surely keep guard over him.' 13. He said, `It grieves me that you should take him away, and I fear lest the wolf should devour him while you are heedless of him.' 14. They said, `Surely, if the wolf should devour him while we are a strong party , then we shall indeed be great losers.' |
