← Surah 12

12:13

قَالَ إِنِّى لَيَحْزُنُنِىٓ أَن تَذْهَبُوا۟ بِهِۦ وَأَخَافُ أَن يَأْكُلَهُ ٱلذِّئْبُ وَأَنتُمْ عَنْهُ غَـٰفِلُونَ

Word by word

قَالَ
He said
Verb
Root: قول
إِنِّى
Indeed, [I]
Preposition
لَيَحْزُنُنِىٓ
it surely saddens me
Verb
Root: حزن
أَن
that
Preposition
تَذْهَبُوا۟
you should take him
Verb
Root: ذهب
بِهِۦ
you should take him
Preposition
وَأَخَافُ
and I fear
Verb
Root: خوف
أَن
that
Preposition
يَأْكُلَهُ
would eat him
Verb
Root: أكل
ٱلذِّئْبُ
a wolf
Noun
Root: ذأب
وَأَنتُمْ
while you
Preposition
عَنْهُ
of him
Preposition
غَٰفِلُونَ
(are) unaware
Noun
Root: غفل

Translation

(Jacob) said: "Really it saddens me that ye should take him away: I fear lest the wolf should devour him while ye attend not to him."

A. Yusuf Ali · EN · public-domain

Babaları dedi ki: "Onu götürmeniz beni üzer, korkarım ki onu kurt yer de sizin haberiniz bile olmaz."

Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır · TR · public-domain

(Babaları) “Onu götürmeniz şüphesiz ki beni üzer. Siz ondan habersizken onu bir kurdun yemesinden korkarım.” demişti.

Mehmet Okuyan · TR · all-rights-reserved

He said: Lo! in truth it saddens me that ye should take him with you, and I fear less the wolf devour him while ye are heedless of him.

M. Pickthall · EN · public-domain