Surah Yusuf (يوسف) • Joseph

Quran 12:10

12:10

قَالَ قَآئِلٌ مِّنْهُمْ لَا تَقْتُلُوا۟ يُوسُفَ وَأَلْقُوهُ فِى غَيَـٰبَتِ ٱلْجُبِّ يَلْتَقِطْهُ بَعْضُ ٱلسَّيَّارَةِ إِن كُنتُمْ فَـٰعِلِينَ

qāla qāilun min'hum lā taqtulū yūsufa wa-alqūhu fī ghayābati l-jubi yaltaqiṭ'hu baʿḍu l-sayārati in kuntum fāʿilīna

Said a speaker among them, "Do not kill Joseph but throw him into the bottom of the well; some travelers will pick him up - if you would do [something]."

— Saheeh International

[Another of them] said, ‘Do not kill Joseph, but, if you must, throw him into the hidden depths of a well where some caravan may pick him up.’

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

One from among them said: "Kill not Yûsuf (Joseph), but if you must do something, throw him down to the bottom of a well; he will be picked up by some caravan of travellers."

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

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Word by Word

قَالَqālaSaid
قَآئِلٌۭqāiluna speaker
مِّنْهُمْmin'humamong them
لَاlā(Do) not
تَقْتُلُوا۟taqtulūkill
يُوسُفَyūsufaYusuf
وَأَلْقُوهُwa-alqūhubut throw him
فِىfīin
غَيَـٰبَتِghayābatithe bottom
ٱلْجُبِّl-jubi(of) the well
يَلْتَقِطْهُyaltaqiṭ'huwill pick him
بَعْضُbaʿḍusome
ٱلسَّيَّارَةِl-sayārati[the] caravan
إِنinif
كُنتُمْkuntumyou are
فَـٰعِلِينَfāʿilīnadoing