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Yūsuf 12:93

The Qurʾān · Sūra 12: Yūsuf · verse 93

This commentary was written by Claude (Anthropic); it carries no religious authority and should be checked against the classical sources.

12/93

ٱذْهَبُوا۟ بِقَمِيصِى هَٰذَا فَأَلْقُوهُ عَلَىٰ وَجْهِ أَبِى يَأْتِ بَصِيرًا وَأْتُونِى بِأَهْلِكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

"'Take this shirt of mine and lay it on my father's face; his sight will come back. And bring me all your family.'"

The third occurrence of the shirt

And the sūra's weave of objects is completed here; I tabulated it at verse 18.

VerseThe shirtIts function
18Covered in bloodFalse proof
26-28Torn from behindTrue proof
93, 96Laid on the faceGlad tidings

This is a countable weave within the sūra.

And this is worth recording: the first shirt took a son from the father; the third gives the father back his sight. I give this as my own reading; its ground is that the two scenes are built upon the same object.

يَأْتِ بَصِيرًا — "he will come seeing". The verb is yaʾti (to come), not yaʿūdu (to return).

I record this as an observation about the structure: the sentence tells the return of sight as an arrival. And in verse 96 the fulfilment will be given with a different verb: fa'rtadda baṣīrā — "he turned back seeing". The two verbs convey two different directions: one a coming, the other a returning.

وَأْتُونِى بِأَهْلِكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَand the command sets in motion the last movement of the story. Ajmaʿīnan intensifier: all of them together. And this accords with the hope in verse 83: ʿasa'llāhu an yaʾtiyanī bihim jamīʿā.

The same word (ج-م-ع), once in the father's hope and once in the son's command. This is an overlap verifiable within the sūra.


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