In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. 
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| |1* Alif. Lm. R. These are the Verses of the Perspicuous Book.  
| |2* We have sent it down as an Arabic Quran, in order that ye may learn wisdom.  
| |3* We do relate unto thee the most beautiful of stories, in that We reveal to thee this (portion of the) Quran: before this, thou too was among those who knew it not.  
| |4* Behold! Joseph said to his father: "O my father! I did see eleven stars and the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrate themselves to me!"  
| |5* Said (the father): "My (dear) little son! relate not thy vision to thy brothers, lest they concoct a plot against thee: for Satan is to man an avowed enemy!  
| |6* "Thus will thy Lord choose thee and teach thee the interpretation of stories (and events) and perfect His favor to thee and to the posterity of Jacob - even as He perfected it to thy fathers Abraham and Isaac aforetime! for Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom."  
| |7* Verily in Joseph and his brethren are signs for seekers (after Truth).  
| |8* They said: "Truly Joseph and his brother are loved more by our father than we: But we are a goodly body! Really our father is obviously wandering in error!  
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