Surah Yusuf Tafseer

Yahudha brings Yusuf's Shirt and Good News

Allah tells:

فَلَمَّا أَن جَاء الْبَشِيرُ أَلْقَاهُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ فَارْتَدَّ بَصِيرًا

Then, when the bearer of the good news arrived, he cast it (the shirt) over his face, and his vision returned.

Ibn Abbas and Ad-Dahhak said;

الْبَشِيرُ

(good news),

means information.

Mujahid and As-Suddi said that;

the bearer of good news was Yahudha, son of Yaqub.

As-Suddi added,

"He brought it (Yusuf's shirt) because it was he who brought Yusuf's shirt stained with the false blood. So he liked to erase that error with this good act, by bringing Yusuf's shirt and placing it on his father's face. His father's sight was restored to him."

Ya`qub said to his children,

قَالَ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ مِنَ اللّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

He said:"Did I not say to you, `I know from Allah that which you know not'),

that I know that Allah will return Yusuf to me and that,

(I do indeed feel the smell of Yusuf, if only you think me not senile).

Yusuf's Brothers feel Sorry and Regretful

This is when Yusuf's brothers said to their father, with humble- ness,

قَالُواْ يَا أَبَانَا اسْتَغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا خَاطِيِينَ