Yūsuf عليه السلام · choosing the harder option to avoid the wrong one
Prison is dearer to me
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Sūrat Yusuf
12:33 - Extent
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قَالَ رَبِّ ٱلسِّجْنُ أَحَبُّ إِلَىَّ مِمَّا يَدْعُونَنِىٓ إِلَيْهِ وَإِلَّا تَصْرِفْ عَنِّى كَيْدَهُنَّ أَصْبُ إِلَيْهِنَّ وَأَكُن مِّنَ ٱلْجَٰهِلِينَ
Rabbi as-sijnu ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya mimmā yadʿūnanī ʾilayhi wa-ʾillā taṣrif ʿannī kaydahunna ʾaṣbu ʾilayhinna wa-ʾakun mina al-jāhilīna
When and why it was said
From Sūrat Yusuf, 12:33. The occasion of this supplication has not yet been written with a tafsīr citation.
Qurʾān 12:33
Commentary — Tafsīr al-Jalālayn
He said ‘My Lord prison is dearer to me than that to which they are urging me. And if You do not fend off their wiles from me then I shall tend I shall incline towards them and become of the ignorant the sinful this is intended as a supplication which is why God exalted be He then says
Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, al-Maḥallī and al-Suyūṭī. Translated by Feras Hamza. altafsir.com