Tafsir for verses: 12:5, 12:6
قَالَ يَٰبُنَيَّ لَا تَقۡصُصۡ رُءۡيَاكَ عَلَىٰٓ إِخۡوَتِكَ فَيَكِيدُواْ لَكَ كَيۡدًاۖ إِنَّ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنَ لِلۡإِنسَٰنِ عَدُوّٞ مُّبِينٞ ٥ ﴿5 وَكَذَٰلِكَ يَجۡتَبِيكَ رَبُّكَ وَيُعَلِّمُكَ مِن تَأۡوِيلِ ٱلۡأَحَادِيثِ وَيُتِمُّ نِعۡمَتَهُۥ عَلَيۡكَ وَعَلَىٰٓ ءَالِ يَعۡقُوبَ كَمَآ أَتَمَّهَا عَلَىٰٓ أَبَوَيۡكَ مِن قَبۡلُ إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ وَإِسۡحَٰقَۚ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٞ ٦ ﴿6
5He said, “My son, do not relate your dream to your brothers, lest they should devise a plan against you. Surely, Satan is an open enemy for mankind. 6And it will be in this way that your Lord will choose you and teach you the correct interpretation of events, and will perfect His bounty upon you and upon the House of Ya‘qūb, as He has perfected it earlier upon your fore-fathers, Ibrāhīm and IsHāq. Surely, your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing.”
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Commentary

'In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful' He said: O my son, do not relate your vision to your brothers, lest they devise against you a plan. Indeed, Satan is a manifest enemy to man. And thus will your Lord choose you and teach you the interpretation of narratives and complete His favor upon you and upon the family of Jacob, as He completed it upon your forefathers, Abraham and Isaac. Indeed, your Lord is Knowing and Wise. This verse indicates that Jacob, peace be upon him, sensed from his sons the envy of Joseph and their animosity towards him. So he forbade him from recounting the vision to them for fear that this would ignite the malice in their hearts, and they would devise a scheme for his destruction. From this, and from their actions towards Joseph - whose mention will come - it appears that they were not prophets at that time. It has been reported in the book of al-Tabari from Ibn Zayd that they were prophets, but this is refuted by the certainty of the infallibility of the prophets from worldly envy, and from disobedience to parents, and exposing a believer to destruction and the likelihood of killing him. Then he informed him that Satan is a manifest enemy to man, meaning he incites them to that and urges them towards it. Al-Kisai inclined towards

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