Transliteration:( Wa lammaa fatahoo mataa 'ahum wajadoo bidaa'atahum ruddat ilaihim qaaloo yaaa abaanaa maa nabghee; haazihee bida 'atunaa ruddat ilainaa wa nameeru ahlanaa wa nahfazu akhaanaa wa nazdaadu kaila ba'eer; zaalika kailuny yaseer )
136. These people fully understood that the king had deliberately returned their money and since it is returned as a gift from him it is permissible to use it. This tells us that anything which according to ones thinking has a greater possibility of being lawful permissible its use it.
137. So that this protection becomes the atonement of our previous sins. We have already erred once by not protecting Hazrat Yusuf (on whom be peace), but try us now. It should be remembered that this time they are making a sincere promise of taking care of Benyamin while in the case of Hazrat Yusuf (on whom be peace), their promise of protecting him was a deliberate scheme of their part. hence this promise of theirs was sincere For this reason Hazrat Yaqoob (on whom be peace) made the statement which follows.
138. By this is meant we have already tested this king's kindness and generosity. For him to give the grain in such large quantity is nothing What appears so much to us is insignificant to him: Because Hazrat Yusuf (on whom be peace) was the total master of the grain, he was in a position to change whom he wished and give free to whom he desired. Afterwards he did return everyone's money.Thus no one can raise any objection at this action of giving the king's grain free of charge to his brothers.
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65. And when they opened their bags, they found their money had been returned to them. They said: “O our father! What (more) can we desire This, our money has been returned to us; so we shall get (more) food for our family, and we shall guard our brother and add one more measure of a camel’s load. This quantity is easy (for the king to give).” 66. He Ya`qub said: “I will not send him with you until you swear a solemn oath to me in Allah’s Name, that you will bring him back to me unless you are yourselves surrounded (by enemies),” And when they had sworn their solemn oath, he said: “Allah is the Witness to what we have said.”
Allah says, when Yusuf’s brothers opened their bags, they found their merchandise inside them, for Yusuf had ordered his servants to return it to their bags. When they found their merchandise in their bags,
(They said: “O our father! What (more) can we desire…”), what more can we ask for,
(This, our money has been returned to us;) Qatadah commented (that they said), “What more can we ask for, our merchandise was returned to us and the `Aziz has given us the sufficient load we wanted” They said next,
(so we shall get (more) food for our family,), `if you send our brother with us the next time we go to buy food for our family,’
(and we shall guard our brother and add one more measure of a camel’s load.) since Yusuf, peace be upon him, gave each man a camel’s load of corn.
(This quantity is easy (for the king to give).) They said these words to make their case more appealing, saying that taking their brother with them is worth this gain,
(He ﴿Ya`qub (Jacob)﴾ said: “I will not send him with you until you swear a solemn oath to me in Allah’s Name…”), until you swear by Allah with the strongest oath,
(that you will bring him back to me unless you are yourselves surrounded (by enemies)), unless you were all overwhelmed and were unable to rescue him,
(And when they had sworn their solemn oath), he affirmed it further, saying,
(Allah is the Witness to what we have said.) Ibn Ishaq commented, “Ya`qub did that because he had no choice but to send them to bring necessary food supplies for their survival. So he sent Binyamin with them.”
(12:65) And when they opened their things they found that their goods had been given back to them. Thereupon they cried: “Father! What else would we desire? Look, even our goods have been given back to us, so we shall go now and bring supplies for our family, we shall protect our brother, and bring another camel-load of corn. That additional supply will be easily secured.”
There is no commentary by Abul Maududi available for this verse.
[605]- For them. Or one obtained by us with ease.
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