Yaʿqūb عليه السلام · when you have been lied to and cannot prove it
Beautiful patience
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Sūrat Yusuf
12:18 - Extent
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وَجَآءُو عَلَىٰ قَمِيصِهِۦ بِدَمٍۢ كَذِبٍۢ قَالَ بَلْ سَوَّلَتْ لَكُمْ أَنفُسُكُمْ أَمْرًۭا فَصَبْرٌۭ جَمِيلٌۭ وَٱللَّهُ ٱلْمُسْتَعَانُ عَلَىٰ مَا تَصِفُونَ
Fa-ṣabrun jamīlun wa-al-lahu al-mustaʿānu ʿalā mā taṣifūna
Grammatically a statement rather than a supplication, though widely said as one.
When and why it was said
From Sūrat Yusuf, 12:18. The occasion of this supplication has not yet been written with a tafsīr citation.
Qurʾān 12:18
Commentary — Tafsīr al-Jalālayn
And they came with false blood on his shirt ‘alā qamīsihi has the status of an accusative of the verb because it is an adverbial qualifier meaning fawqa qamīsihi they slaughtered a lamb and dabbed it his shirt with its blood — but they forgot to tear it the shirt — and they said that it was his blood. He Jacob said when he saw that it the shirt was undamaged and realised that they were lying ‘Nay but your souls have beguiled you into something and so you did it to him. Yet comely patience! without any anxiety! fa-sabrun jamīlun is the predicate of a missing subject such as amrī ‘my course’. And God is the One Whose succour is sought in that predicament which you describe’ that which you mention of Joseph’s affair.
Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, al-Maḥallī and al-Suyūṭī. Translated by Feras Hamza. altafsir.com