61 Preface قالوا سَنُراوِدُ عَنهُ أَباهُ وَإِنّا لَفاعِلونَYusuf AliThey said: “We shall certainly seek to get our wish about him from his father:1 Indeed we shall do it.” The brother said: “Certainly, we shall try to beg him for our father, and bring him away with us: we shall certainly comply with your desire.” In reality they probably loved Benjamin no more than they loved Joseph. But they must get food when the present supply was exhausted, and they must humour the great Egyptian Wazir. Note that they do not call Jacob “our father” but “his father”: how little they loved their aged father, whom they identified with Joseph and Benjamin! Their trial and their instruction in their duties is now being undertaken by Joseph.