Yaʿqūb عليه السلام · grief you are tired of explaining to people
I complain of my grief only to Allah
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Sūrat Yusuf
12:86 - Extent
- Excerpt within the āyah, shown in full ink against dimmed framing.
- Text
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قَالَ إِنَّمَآ أَشْكُوا۟ بَثِّى وَحُزْنِىٓ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ وَأَعْلَمُ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
ʾinnamā ʾashkū baththī wa-ḥuznī ʾilā al-lahi wa-ʾaʿlamu mina al-lahi mā lā taʿlamūna
Grammatically a statement rather than a supplication, though widely said as one.
When and why it was said
From Sūrat Yusuf, 12:86. The occasion of this supplication has not yet been written with a tafsīr citation.
Qurʾān 12:86
Commentary — Tafsīr al-Jalālayn
He said to them ‘I complain of my anguish — bathth is severe grief which cannot be endured unless it is proclaimed yubaththu to others — and grief only to God not to any other than Him for it is worth complaining to Him; and I know from God what you do not know and that is that Joseph’s dream is true and that he is alive. Then he said
Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, al-Maḥallī and al-Suyūṭī. Translated by Feras Hamza. altafsir.com