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Sura 12
Aya 62
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وَقالَ لِفِتيانِهِ اجعَلوا بِضاعَتَهُم في رِحالِهِم لَعَلَّهُم يَعرِفونَها إِذَا انقَلَبوا إِلىٰ أَهلِهِم لَعَلَّهُم يَرجِعونَ

Muhammad Asad

And [Joseph] said to his servants: "Place their merchandise1 in their camel-packs, so that they may find it there when they come home, and hence be the more eager to return.2
  • I.e., the goods which they had bartered for wheat (Ibn Kathir): a very plausible explanation in view of the fact that barter was the most common form of trade in those ancient times.
  • Lit., "so that they may perceive them when they come back to their family, [and] that they may return".