Al-Baqarah 2:7
Al-Baqarah 2:25
Al-Baqarah 2:29
Al-Baqarah 2:183
Al-Baqarah 2:220
Al-Baqarah 2:222
Al-Baqarah 2:223
Al-i-'Imran 3:3-4
Al-i-'Imran 3:7
Al-i-'Imran 3:28
Al-i-'Imran 3:84
Al-i-'Imran 3:178
An-Nisa' 4:3
An-Nisa' 4:16
An-Nisa' 4:48
An-Nisa' 4:51
An-Nisa' 4:59
Al-Maidah 5:5
Al-Araf 7:3
Al-Araf 7:26
Al-Araf 7:38
Al-Araf 7:46
Al-Araf 7:54
Al-Araf 7:73
Al-Anfal 8:1
Al-Anfal 8:19
Al-Anfal 8:48
At-Tawbah 9:5
At-Tawbah 9:20
Yusuf 12:4
Yusuf 12:6
Yusuf 12:52
Ar-Ra‘d 13:2
Ar-Ra‘d 13:16
Ar-Ra‘d 13:27
Al-Hijr 15:9
Al-Hijr 15:15
Al-Hijr 15:44
Al-Hijr 15:73
Al-Hijr 15:87
An-Nahl 16:8
An-Nahl 16:15
An-Nur 24:33
As-Saba 34:10
As-Saba 34:11
Az-Zumar 39:10
Az-Zumar 39:12
Az-Zumar 39:18
Az-Zumar 39:23
Al-Mu'min 40:7-8
Fussilat 41:9
Fussilat 41:11
Fussilat 41:33
Fussilat 41:34
Fussilat 41:51
Muhammad 47:2
Al-Fath 48:1
Ad-Dhariat 51:21
An-Najm 53:38
Ar-Rahman 55:33
Ar-Rahman 55:35
Al-Waqiah 56:75
Al-Mujadilah 58:11
Al-Mursalat 77:33
An-Naba 78:14
An-Naba 78:33
An-Naziat 79:1
Al-Inshiqaq 84:6
At-Tariq 86:1
At-Tariq 86:7
Al-Ghashiyah 88:17
Al-Balad 90:1
Al-Balad 90:13
Al-Adiyat 100:1-5
Al-Adiyat 100:6-8
Al-Adiyat 100:9-11
Al-Qaria'ah 101:9
Al-Asr
Al-Kauthar


12:4 Behold, Yūsuf said to his father: “O my Dad! surely I have seen eleven stars and the sun and the moon— I have seen them making obeisance for me.”

12:4 The particle idh is occasionally used to draw reader’s attention to the subsequent event, primarily when there is a sudden change in the central theme of the story or when something significant is being described. Commentators translated the particle variously to mean ‘lo!’, ‘behold!’, ‘now’ etc. Allāh showed Yūsuf a prophetic dream about events to follow in his life in a manner that he did not understand at that point, however, as the sūrah would unfold, the meaning of the dream would become clear. Many commentators translated li sājidīn to mean ‘prostrate to me’, which echoes biblical thought (Gen. 37:9); whereas, the meaning is prostrate for me. A prophet of Islam would not teach anybody to perform obeisance to a man, an act considered blasphemous in the religion. As will be seen in v. 100, the eleven stars and the sun and the moon will make obeisance to Allāh for the cause of Yūsuf.

 

 

 
     

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