(12:29) Joseph, ignore this. And, [my wife], ask forgiveness for your sin. Indeed, you were of the sinful." (12:30) And women in the city said, "The wife of al-`Azeez is seeking to seduce her slave boy; he has impassioned her with love. Indeed, we see her [to be] in clear error." (12:31) So when she heard of their scheming, she sent for them and prepared for them a banquet and gave each one of them a knife and said [to Joseph], "Come out before them." And when they saw him, they greatly admired him and cut their hands and said, "Perfect is Allah! This is not a man; this is none but a noble angel." (12:32) She said, "That is the one about whom you blamed me. And I certainly sought to seduce him, but he firmly refused; and if he will not do what I order him, he will surely be imprisoned and will be of those debased." (12:33) He said, "My Lord, prison is more to my liking than that to which they invite me. And if You do not avert from me their plan, I might incline toward them and [thus] be of the ignorant." (12:34) So his Lord responded to him and averted from him their plan. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Knowing. (12:35) Then it appeared to them after they had seen the signs that al-`Azeez should surely imprison him for a time.
