Yusuf 12:18

<h2>Yusuf's Brothers try to deceive Their Father</h2><p>Allah narrates to us the deceit that Yusuf's brothers resorted to, after they threw him to the bottom of the well. They went back to their father, during the darkness of the night, crying and showing sorrow and grief for losing Yusuf. They started giving excuses to their father for what happened to Yusuf, falsely claiming that, </p><div class="arabic uthmani">إِنَّا ذَهَبْنَا نَسْتَبِقُ</div><p>(We went racing with one another), or had a shooting competition, </p><div class="arabic uthmani">وَتَرَكْنَا يُوسُفَ عِندَ مَتَـعِنَا</div><p>(and left Yusuf by our belongings), guarding our clothes and luggage, </p><div class="arabic uthmani">فَأَكَلَهُ الذِّئْبُ</div><p>(and a wolf devoured him), which is exactly what their father told them he feared for Yusuf and warned against. They said next, </p><div class="arabic uthmani">وَمَآ أَنتَ بِمُؤْمِنٍ لَّنَا وَلَوْ كُنَّا صَـدِقِينَ</div><p>(but you will never believe us even when we speak the truth.) They tried to lessen the impact of the grave news they were delivering. They said, `We know that you will not believe this news, even if you consider us truthful. So what about when you suspect that we are not truthful, especially since you feared that the wolf might devour Yusuf and that is what happened' Therefore, they said, `You …

And they came with false blood on his shirt. He said: Nay, but your minds have beguiled you into something. (My course is) comely patience. And Allah it is Whose help is to be sought in that (predicament) which ye describe.

They stained his shirt with false blood. He said: "Nay, but your minds have made up a tale (that may pass) with you, (for me) patience is most fitting: Against that which ye assert, it is Allah (alone) Whose help can be sought"..

And they brought his shirt stained with false blood. He said: "Nay, but your ownselves have made up a tale. So (for me) patience is most fitting. And it is Allah (Alone) Whose help can be sought against that which you assert."

And they brought his shirt, with fake blood on it. He said, “Your souls enticed you to do something. But patience is beautiful, and God is my Help against what you describe.”