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Sura 12
Aya 63
63
فَلَمّا رَجَعوا إِلىٰ أَبيهِم قالوا يا أَبانا مُنِعَ مِنَّا الكَيلُ فَأَرسِل مَعَنا أَخانا نَكتَل وَإِنّا لَهُ لَحافِظونَ

Muhammad Asad

And so, when they returned to their father, [Joseph's brothers] said: "O our father! All grain1 is [to be] withheld from us [in the future unless we bring Benjamin with us]: send, therefore, our brother with us, so that we may obtain our measure [of grain]; and, verily, we shall guard him well!"
  • Lit., "measure [of grain]", here used metonymically in an allusion to Joseph's words (verse 60).