َقَالَ الْمَلِکُ ائْتُونِی بِهِ فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُ الرَّسُولُ قَالَ ارْجِعْ إِلَى رَبِّکَ فَاسْأَلْهُ مَا بَالُ النِّسْوَةِ اللاَّتِی قَطَّعْنَ أَیْدِیَهُنَّ إِنَّ رَبِّی بِکَیْدِهِنَّ عَلِیمٌ (( 50 ))
50- AND THE KING SAID:ِ ``BRING HIM, (i.e.JOSEPH) TO ME. BUT WHEN THE MESSENGER CAME TO (TAKE) HIM,'' HE SAID:ِ ``GO BACK TO YOUR LORD AND ASK HIM, WHAT WAS THE CASE OF THE WOMEN WHO CUT THEIR HANDS? VERILY MY LORD KNOWS THEIR GUILE.''
قَالَ مَا خَطْبُکُنَّ إِذْ رَاوَدتُّنَّ یُوسُفَ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ قُلْنَ حَاشَ للهِِ مَا عَلِمْنَا عَلَیْهِ مِنْ سُوء قَالَتْ امْرَأَةُ الْعَزِیزِ الاْنَ حَصْحَصَ الْحَقُّ أَنَا رَاوَدتُّهُ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ وَإِنَّهُ لَمِنْ الصَّادِقِینَ(( 51 ))
51- (THE KING CALLED THE WOMEN TO HIS COURT AND) HE SAID:ِ ``WHAT WAS YOUR AFFAIR WHEN YOU SOUGHT TO ENTICE JOSEPH?'' THEY SAID:ِ ``GOD SAVE US! WE KNOW NO EVIL OF HIM.'' THE AZIZ'S WIFE SAID: ``NOW HAS THE TRUTH COME TO LIGHT. I SOLICITED HIM, AND HE IS THE TRUTHFUL.''
ذَلِکَ لِیَعْلَمَ أَنِّی لَمْ أَخُنْهُ بِالْغَیْبِ وَأَنَّ اللهَ لاَ یَهْدِی کَیْدَ الْخَائِنِینَ (( 52 ))
52- THIS IS TO MAKE HIM KNOW THAT I DID NOT BETRAY HIM IN HIS ABSENCE, AND THAT ALLAH WILL NOT GUIDE THE GUILE OF THE TREACHEROUS.
وَمَا أُبَرِّءُ نَفْسِی إِنَّ النَّفْسَ لاََمَّارَةٌ بِالسُّوءِ إِلاَّ مَا رَحِمَ رَبِّی إِنَّ رَبِّی غَفُورٌ رَّحِیمٌ(( 53 ))
53- AND YET I DO NOT ACQUIT MY CARNAL SOUL (OF BLAME), THAT THE CARNAL SOUL OF MAN INCITES TO EVIL, UNLESS MY LORD BESTOWS HIS MERCY, THAT MY LORD IS ALL-FORGIVING, COMPASSIONATE.