The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Koran: to-morrow to revel and to play, and, verily, we over him will keep
good guard.'
Said he, 'Verily, it grieves me that ye should go off with him,
for I fear lest the wolf devour him while ye of him do take no heed.'
Said they, 'Why, if the wolf should devour him while we are (such) a
band, verily, we then should deserve to lose!'
And when they had gone off with him and agreed to put him in the
depths of the pit, and we inspired him, 'Thou shalt surely inform them
of this affair of theirs and they shall not perceive.'
And they came to their father at eve and weeping said, 'O our
father! verily, we went forth to race and left Joseph by our goods,
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