Surah Yusuf (يوسف) • Joseph

Quran 12:62

12:62

وَقَالَ لِفِتْيَـٰنِهِ ٱجْعَلُوا۟ بِضَـٰعَتَهُمْ فِى رِحَالِهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَعْرِفُونَهَآ إِذَا ٱنقَلَبُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ

waqāla lifit'yānihi ij'ʿalū biḍāʿatahum fī riḥālihim laʿallahum yaʿrifūnahā idhā inqalabū ilā ahlihim laʿallahum yarjiʿūna

And [Joseph] said to his servants, "Put their merchandise into their saddlebags so they might recognize it when they have gone back to their people that perhaps they will [again] return."

— Saheeh International

Joseph said to his servants, ‘Put their [traded] goods back into their saddlebags, so that they may recognize them when they go back to their family, and [be eager to] return.’

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

And [Yûsuf (Joseph)] told his servants to put their money (with which they had bought the corn) into their bags, so that they might know it when they go back to their people; in order they might come again.

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

Juz 13Page 242meccan

Word by Word

وَقَالَwaqālaAnd he said
لِفِتْيَـٰنِهِlifit'yānihito his servants
ٱجْعَلُوا۟ij'ʿalūPut
بِضَـٰعَتَهُمْbiḍāʿatahumtheir merchandise
فِىfīin
رِحَالِهِمْriḥālihimtheir saddlebags
لَعَلَّهُمْlaʿallahumso that they
يَعْرِفُونَهَآyaʿrifūnahāmay recognize it
إِذَاidhāwhen
ٱنقَلَبُوٓا۟inqalabūthey go back
إِلَىٰٓilāto
أَهْلِهِمْahlihimtheir people
لَعَلَّهُمْlaʿallahumso that they may
يَرْجِعُونَyarjiʿūnareturn