He said: Allah forbid that we should seize save him with whom we found our property; then truly we should be wrong-doers

So, When they despaired of (moving) him, they conferred together apart. The eldest of them said: Know ye not how your father took an undertaking from you in Allah's name and how ye failed in the case of Joseph aforetime? Therefore I shall not go forth from the land until my father giveth leave or Allah judgeth for me. He is the Best of Judges

Return unto your father and say: O our father! Lo! thy son hath stolen. We testify only to that which we know; we are not guardians of the Unseen

Ask the township where we were, and the caravan with which we travelled hither. Lo! we speak the truth

(And when they came unto their father and had spoken thus to him) he said: Nay, but your minds have beguiled you into something. (My course is) comely patience! It may be that Allah will bring them all unto me. Lo! He, only He, is the Knower, the Wise

And he turned away from them and said: Alas, my grief for Joseph! And his eyes were whitened with the sorrow that he was suppressing

They said: By Allah, thou wilt never cease remembering Joseph till thy health is ruined or thou art of those who perish

He said: I expose my distress and anguish only unto Allah, and I know from Allah that which ye know not