Transliteration:( Arsillhu ma'anaa ghadany yarta' wa yal'ab wa innaa lahoo la haafizoon )
"Send him with us tomorrow so that he may eat fruits and play [22], and indeed, we will be his guardians."
From this verse, we learn that lawful games and activities are permissible for children, as the brothers invited Hazrat Yusuf (peace be upon him) for play and recreation. It also teaches that wild fruits, which do not belong to anyone, are lawful to eat, because Hazrat Yaqub (peace be upon him) did not own any gardens, yet did not object to his son going out to eat such fruits. This shows the permissibility of simple enjoyments within the boundaries of Shariah.
The tafsir of Surah Yusuf verse 12 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Yusuf ayat 11 which provides the complete commentary from verse 11 through 12.
(12:12) Send him out with us tomorrow that he may enjoy himself and play while we will be there, standing guard over him.”[11]
11. In this thing also the Quran differs from the Bible and the Talmud, according to which it was not the brothers, who requested their father to send Joseph with them but Prophet Jacob himself sent him with an errand to Shechem, where they were feeding their father’s flocks. Obviously the version of the Quran is more realistic, for Prophet Jacob could never have thought of sending his beloved son with them because he knew it well that they were envious of him, and sending him there would have been sending Joseph deliberately into the jaws of death.
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