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He said, 'Should I - [I will] only - trust you with him like I trusted you with his brother, Joseph, before? despite [the fact] that you have done to him what you have done? Yet Allahu ta’ālā is best at guarding (hifzan: a variant reading has hāfizan, 'a Guardian (wakīl)', as a specification, similar to when they say li'llāhi darruhu fārisan, 'By Allahu ta’ālā, how excellent a horseman he is!');¹² and He is the Most Merciful of merciful ones', and so I hope that He will show favour [to me] by guarding him.