Qabasٱرۡجِعُوٓاْ إِلَىٰٓ أَبِيكُمۡ فَقُولُواْ يَٰٓأَبَانَآ إِنَّ ٱبۡنَكَ سَرَقَ وَمَا شَهِدۡنَآ إِلَّا بِمَا عَلِمۡنَا وَمَا كُنَّا لِلۡغَيۡبِ حَٰفِظِينَ ٨١
Irji'ū ilā abīkum faqūlū yā'abānā innabnaka saraqa wamā shahidnā illā bimā 'alimnā wamā kunnā lil-ghaybi hāfizīn
Return to your father and say, 'O our father, indeed your son has stolen, and we did not testify except to what we knew. And we were not witnesses of the unseen.613
Footnotes
613 i.e., We could not have known when we gave you the oath that he would steal and be apprehended.