and as for that young man his parents were believers whereas we had every reason to fear that he would bring bitter grief upon them by overweening wickedness and denial of all truth and so we desired that their sustainer grant them in his stead of greater purity than him and closer in loving tenderness.
وأما الغلام فكان أبواه مؤمنين فخشينا أن يرهقهما طغيانا وكفرا فأردنا أن يبدلهما ربهما خيرا منه زكاة وأقرب رحما