70 Preface وَأَرادوا بِهِ كَيدًا فَجَعَلناهُمُ الأَخسَرينَYusuf AliThen they sought a stratagem against him: but We made them the ones that lost most!1As they could not get rid of him by open punishment, they tried secret plans, but were foiled throughout. It was not he that lost, but they. On the contrary, he left them and prospered and became the progenitor of great peoples (Cf. 19:49).