Surah Yusuf 12:82 — translation and meaning
يوسف · Verse 82 / 111 · Page 245
ۖ وَاسْأَلِ الْقَرْيَةَ الَّتِي كُنَّا فِيهَا وَالْعِيرَ الَّتِي أَقْبَلْنَا فِيهَا وَإِنَّا لَصَادِقُونَ
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Transliteration
Was'alil qaryatal latee kunnaa feehaa wal'eeral lateee aqbalnaa feehaa wa innaa lasaadiqoon
Translation
And ask the city in which we were and the caravan in which we came - and indeed, we are truthful,"
Verse interpretation (Tafsir)
In order to confirm that they were telling the truth, the brothers told their father to ask the people of the town where they had been, and to ask the people of the caravan they had come with, and that these people would tell him the same thing as they had. They said they were telling the truth in what they told him about his son’s theft.
Source: Al-Mukhtasar Tafsir — Tafsir Center for Quranic Studies.
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