Surah Yusuf (يوسف) • Joseph

Quran 12:26

12:26

قَالَ هِىَ رَٰوَدَتْنِى عَن نَّفْسِى ۚ وَشَهِدَ شَاهِدٌ مِّنْ أَهْلِهَآ إِن كَانَ قَمِيصُهُۥ قُدَّ مِن قُبُلٍ فَصَدَقَتْ وَهُوَ مِنَ ٱلْكَـٰذِبِينَ

qāla hiya rāwadatnī ʿan nafsī washahida shāhidun min ahlihā in kāna qamīṣuhu qudda min qubulin faṣadaqat wahuwa mina l-kādhibīna

[Joseph] said, "It was she who sought to seduce me." And a witness from her family testified, "If his shirt is torn from the front, then she has told the truth, and he is of the liars.

— Saheeh International

but he said, ‘She tried to seduce me.’ A member of her household suggested, ‘If his shirt is torn at the front, then it is she who is telling the truth and he who is lying,

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

He [Yûsuf (Joseph)] said: "It was she that sought to seduce me;" and a witness of her household bore witness (saying): "If it be that his shirt is torn from the front, then her tale is true and he is a liar!

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

Juz 12Page 238meccan

Word by Word

قَالَqālaHe said
هِىَhiyaShe
رَٰوَدَتْنِىrāwadatnīsought to seduce me
عَنʿanabout
نَّفْسِىۚnafsīmyself
وَشَهِدَwashahidaAnd testified
شَاهِدٌۭshāhiduna witness
مِّنْminof
أَهْلِهَآahlihāher family
إِنinIf
كَانَkāna[is]
قَمِيصُهُۥqamīṣuhuhis shirt
قُدَّqudda(is) torn
مِنminfrom
قُبُلٍۢqubulinthe front
فَصَدَقَتْfaṣadaqatthen she has spoken the truth
وَهُوَwahuwaand he
مِنَmina(is) of
ٱلْكَـٰذِبِينَl-kādhibīnathe liars