PART 13

[12:53]

I do not exculpate myself. Lo! the (human) soul enjoineth unto evil, save that whereon my Lord hath mercy. Lo! my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.

[12:54]

And the king said: Bring him unto me that I may attach him to my person. And when he had talked with him he said: Lo! thou art to-day in our presence established and trusted.

[12:55]

He said: Set me over the storehouses of the land. Lo! I am a skilled custodian.

[12:56]

Thus gave We power to Joseph in the land. He was the owner of it where he pleased. We reach with Our mercy whom We will. We lose not the reward of the good.

[12:57]

And the reward of the Hereafter is better, for those who believe and ward off (evil).

[12:58]

And Joseph’s brethren came and presented themselves before him, and he knew them but they knew him not.

[12:59]

And when he provided them with their provision he said: Bring unto me a brother of yours from your father. See ye not that I fill up the measure and I am the best of hosts ?

[12:60]

And if ye bring him not unto me, then there shall be no measure for you with me, nor shall ye draw near.

[12:61]

They said: We will try to win him from his father: that we will surely do.

[12:62]

He said unto his young men: Place their merchandise in their saddlebags, so that they may know it when they go back to their folk, and so will come again.

[12:63]

So when they went back to their father they said: O our father! The measure is denied us, so send with us our brother that we may obtain the measure, surely we will guard him well.