Surah Yusuf (يوسف) • Joseph

Quran 12:52

12:52

ذَٰلِكَ لِيَعْلَمَ أَنِّى لَمْ أَخُنْهُ بِٱلْغَيْبِ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِى كَيْدَ ٱلْخَآئِنِينَ

dhālika liyaʿlama annī lam akhun'hu bil-ghaybi wa-anna l-laha lā yahdī kayda l-khāinīna

That is so he [i.e., al-ʿAzeez] will know that I did not betray him in [his] absence and that Allāh does not guide the plan of betrayers.

— Saheeh International

[Joseph said, ‘This was] for my master to know that I did not betray him behind his back: God does not guide the mischief of the treacherous.

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

[Then Yûsuf (Joseph) said: "I asked for this enquiry] in order that he (Al-‘Azîz) may know that I betrayed him not in (his) absence". And, verily! Allâh guides not the plot of the betrayers.

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

Juz 12Page 241meccan

Word by Word

ذَٰلِكَdhālikaThat
لِيَعْلَمَliyaʿlamahe may know
أَنِّىannīthat I
لَمْlamnot
أَخُنْهُakhun'hu[I] betray him
بِٱلْغَيْبِbil-ghaybiin secret
وَأَنَّwa-annaand that
ٱللَّهَl-lahaAllah
لَاlā(does) not
يَهْدِىyahdīguide
كَيْدَkayda(the) plan
ٱلْخَآئِنِينَl-khāinīna(of) the betrayers