12.9
surah 12 - verse 9
| translator's name | verse |
| Arberry | Kill you Joseph, or cast him forth into some land, that your father's face may be free for you, and thereafter you may be a righteous people.' |
| Maududi | So either kill Joseph or cast him into some distant land so that your father's attention may become exclusively yours. And after so doing become righteous." |
| Pickthall | (One said): Kill Joseph or cast him to some (other) land, so that your father's favour may be all for you, and (that) ye may afterward be righteous folk. |
| Sahih | Kill Joseph or cast him out to [another] land; the countenance of your father will [then] be only for you, and you will be after that a righteous people." |
| Yusuf Ali | "Slay ye Joseph or cast him out to some (unknown) land, that so the favour of your father may be given to you alone: (there will be time enough) for you to be righteous after that!" |