Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd the king said: Lo! I saw in a dream seven fat kine which seven lean were eating, and seven green ears of corn and other (seven) dry. O notables! Expound for me my vision, if ye can interpret dreams.
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Juz 12
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThey answered: Jumbled dreams! And we are not knowing in the interpretation of dreams.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd he of the two who was released, and (now) at length remembered, said: I am going to announce unto you the interpretation, therefore send me forth.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall(And when he came to Joseph in the prison, he exclaimed): Joseph! O thou truthful one! Expound for us the seven fat kine which seven lean were eating and the seven green ears of corn and other (seven) dry, that I may return unto the people, so that they may know.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe said: Ye shall sow seven years as usual, but that which ye reap, leave it in the ear, all save a little which ye eat.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThen after that will come seven hard years which will devour all that ye have prepared for them, save a little of that which ye have stored.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThen, after that, will come a year when the people will have plenteous crops and when they will press (wine and oil).
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd the king said: Bring him unto me. And when the messenger came unto him, he (Joseph) said: Return unto thy lord and ask him what was the case of the women who cut their hands. Lo! my Lord knoweth their guile.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe (the king) (then sent for those women and) said: What happened when ye asked an evil act of Joseph? They answered: Allah Blameless! We know no evil of him. Said the wife of the ruler: Now the truth is out. I asked of him an evil act, and he is surely of the truthful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall(Then Joseph said: I asked for) this, that he (my lord) may know that I betrayed him not in secret, and that surely Allah guideth not the snare of the betrayers.
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Quran text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani), tanzil.net – CC BY 3.0, unchanged. Translation: The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall – Public domain (published 1930).