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Surah 12. Yusuf, Ayah 48

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ثُمَّ يَأْتِى مِنۢ بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ سَبْعٌ شِدَادٌ يَأْكُلْنَ مَا قَدَّمْتُمْ لَهُنَّ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا مِّمَّا تُحْصِنُونَ

Thumma yatee min baAAdi tha lika sabAAun shid a dun yakulna m a qaddamtum lahunna ill a qaleelan mimm a tu hs inoon a

for, after that [period of seven good years] there will come seven hard [years] which will devour all that you shall have laid up for them, excepting only a little of that which you shall have kept in store.

- Mohammad Asad

Then, after that period, there will come upon you seven hard years which will eat away all that you had stored except a little which you may have specifically set aside.

- Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

Then after that will come seven years of great hardship which will consume whatever you have saved, except the little you will store 'for seed'.

- Mustafa Khattab

Then after that will come seven hard years which will devour all that ye have prepared for them, save a little of that which ye have stored.

- Marmaduke Pickthall

"Then will come after that (period) seven dreadful (years) which will devour what ye shall have laid by in advance for them (all) except a little which ye shall have (specially) guarded. ¹⁷⁰⁵

- Abdullah Yusuf Ali