12:80
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Dynamic translation
(12:80) So when they gave up from him, they held a conference in private. The eldest of them said, "Did you not know that your father has taken a covenant from you before Allah, and the past, you also failed in your duty with Joseph? I will not leave this land until my father permits me to do so or that Allah will judge for me. He is the best of judges."
Arabic text
(12:80) فَلَمَّا اسْتَيْأَسُواْ مِنْهُ خَلَصُواْ نَجِيًّا قَالَ كَبِيرُهُمْ أَلَمْ تَعْلَمُواْ أَنَّ أَبَاكُمْ قَدْ أَخَذَ عَلَيْكُم مَّوْثِقًا مِّنَ اللّهِ وَمِن قَبْلُ مَا فَرَّطتُمْ فِي يُوسُفَ فَلَنْ أَبْرَحَ الأَرْضَ حَتَّىَ يَأْذَنَ لِي أَبِي أَوْ يَحْكُمَ اللّهُ لِي وَهُوَ خَيْرُ الْحَاكِمِينَ
Connected ideas
(12:78) They said, "O Governor, he has an elderly father, so take one of us in his place. Indeed we see you as one of the good doers."
(21:63) He said, "It was the biggest one of them here who did it, so ask them, if they do speak!"
(28:23) When he arrived at the watering hole of Midyan, he found a crowd of people watering. He noticed two women waiting on the side. He said, "What is holding you back." They said, "We cannot draw water until the shepherds finish, and our father is an old man."
