(12:11) They said, “O our father, why do you not entrust us with Joseph while indeed, we are to him sincere counselors?
Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan,
(12:11) They said: “O our father! Why do you not trust us with Yusuf (Joseph), – when we are indeed his well-wishers?”
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall
(12:11) They said: O our father! Why wilt thou not trust us with Joseph, when lo! we are good friends to him?
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
(12:11) They said: “O our father! why dost thou not trust us with Joseph,- seeing we are indeed his sincere well-wishers?
Mohammad Habib Shakir
(12:11) They said: O our father! what reason have you that you do not trust in us with respect to Yusuf? And most surely we are his sincere well-wishers:
Dr. Ghali
(12:11) They said, “O our father, how is it with you, that you do not keep Yusuf (Joseph) in our custody? And surely we are indeed his (honest) advisers.
Ali Unal
(12:11) They said (having agreed on this) to their father: “Our father! Why will you not trust Joseph with us, while we are his sincere well-wishers?
Amatul Rahman Omar
(12:11) (On making this resolution) they (went to their father and) said, `Our father! why do you not trust us with regard to Joseph, while, as a matter of fact, we are his sincere well-wishers?
Literal
(12:11) They said: “You, our father, why for you (that) you do not trust/entrust us on Joseph, and that we (are) to him faithful/sincere (E)?”
Ahmed Ali
(12:11) (Then going to their father) they said: “O father, why don’t you trust us with Joseph? We are in fact his well-wishers.
A. J. Arberry
(12:11) They said, ‘Father, what ails thee, that thou trustest us not with Joseph? Surely we are his sincere well-wishers.
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
(12:11) They said: our father! wherefore thou intrustest us not with Yusuf, whereas verily we are his well-wishers.
Maulana Mohammad Ali
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Muhammad Sarwar
(12:11) Then they asked their father, “Why do you not trust us with Joseph? We are his well-wishers.
Hamid Abdul Aziz
(12:11) One from amongst them said, “Slay not Joseph, but, if you must act, throw him into the bottom of a pit; some caravan of travellers may pick him up.”
Faridul Haque
(12:11) They said, “O our father! What is the matter with you that you do not trust us with Yusuf, although we are in fact his well-wishers?”
Talal Itani
(12:11) They said, Father, why do you not trust us with Joseph, although we care for him?
Ahmed Raza Khan
(12:11) They said, O our father! What is the matter with you that you do not trust us with Yusuf, although we are in fact his well-wishers?
Wahiduddin Khan
(12:11) They said to their father, “Why do you not trust us with Joseph? We are indeed his well-wishers.
Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
(12:11) They said: “O our father! Why do you not trust us with Yusuf though we are indeed his well-wishers”
Ali Quli Qarai
(12:11) They said, Father! Why is it that you do not trust us with Joseph? We are indeed his well-wishers.
Hasan al-Fatih Qaribullah and Ahmad Darwish
(12:11) They said: ‘Father, what is the matter with you, do you not trust us with Joseph? Indeed, we are sincere advisors.
That is translated surah Yusuf ayat 11 (QS 12: 11) in arabic and english text, may be useful.
Qaloo ya abana ma laka la tamanna AAala yoosufa wainna lahu lanasihoona
