Yūsuf 12:108

"'Say: This is my way. I call to God upon clear sight, I and those who follow me. Glory be to God; and I am not one of those who associate.'"

This verse was cited at al-Qiyāma 75/14-15 (bali'l-insānu ʿalā nafsihi baṣīra):

قُلْ هَٰذِهِۦ سَبِيلِىٓ أَدْعُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ عَلَىٰ بَصِيرَةٍ — "Say: This is my way; I call to God upon clear sight, I and those who follow me." (Yūsuf 12/108)

I rely on that treatment.

The root ب-ص-ر: to see; and inner sight. Baṣar — the eye; baṣīra — discernment, understanding what one sees.

And the place of the word in this sūra is worth recording; I give this as my own reading: the same root was used in verses 93 and 96 for physical sight (yaʾti baṣīrā, fa'rtadda baṣīrā). Here the same root comes as the quality of the call.

And a link with the sūra as a whole can be made: throughout the sūra the movement has been along an axis of knowing and seeing — the dream, the interpretation, the proof, recognising, not recognising, eyes gone white, sight returning. The word chosen at the close as the quality of the call comes from the same root.

This is an overlap that is a datum of the text; the drawing of the link is mine.

And the point of word order must be recorded: the verb adʿū (I call) in the sentence is singular; then an addition is made: ana wa-mani'ttabaʿanī.

In Arabic this is called ʿaṭf ʿala'ḍ-ḍamīri'l-mustatir — coordination with a concealed subject; and for this a separate pronoun (ana) must be inserted. The verse does exactly this.

I give this as a grammatical note, and it carries the meaning: the call is first built as belonging to one person, and then its scope is widened. That is, "those who follow me" become a party doing the same work.

وَسُبْحَٰنَ ٱللَّهِ وَمَآ أَنَا۠ مِنَ ٱلْمُشْرِكِين — and the sentence is set against the diagnosis in verse 106.

The same word two verses apart, one a diagnosis and one a declaration. This is a countable repetition within the sūra.