Joseph
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[12:86]
He answered: "It is only to God that I complain of my deep grief and my sorrow: for I know, from God, something that you do not know.

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* v.86 : Namely, that “judgment as to what is to happen rests with none but God,” and that “all who have trust [in His existence] must place their trust in Him alone (verse 67): the twin ideas which underlie the whole of this sūrah, and which Jacob now seeks to impress upon his sons. In addition to this, his remembrance of Joseph’s prophetic dream (verse 4) and his own conviction at the time that his beloved son would be elected by God for His special grace (verse 6), fills Jacob with renewed hope that Joseph is still alive (Rāzī and Ibn Kathīr): and this explains the directives which he gives his sons in the next sentence.