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Size: 240 mm
x 160 mm
Hard bound
Total pages: 1256
Index: 112 pages
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| 30
And the ladies in the city said: "The wife of the Aziz desires
her young slave to yield himself. He has indeed deeply infatuated
her with love. Truly we see her in an obvious error." |
| 31
So that when she heard of their plan, she sent for them and prepared
for them a cushioned couch, and she provided each one of them a knife,
and she said: "Come out in their presence." So when they
saw him, they deemed him great, and they cut their hands; and they
said: "Blameless be Allah! this is no human being! He is none
but a noble angel!" |
| 32
She said: "He is the one about whom you blamed me. And certainly
I desired him to yield himself, but he protected himself. And if he
does not do what I command him, he will certainly be imprisoned, and
he will be among the humbled." |
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He said: "My Rabb! the prison is dearer to me than that to which
they invite me. And if You do not turn away from me their plot, I
may incline towards them and become of the ignorant." |
| 34
So his Rabb responded to him and turned away from him their plot.
Truly He,- He is all-Hearing, all-Knowing. |
| 35
Then it appeared to them after they had seen the evidences that they
should put him in prison for a time. |
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| 30
And the ladies in the city (with whom promiscuity was
common, felt sympathy for their madam, and) said: "The
wife of the Aziz (-the chief-minister) desires her young
slave to yield himself (to her). He has indeed deeply
infatuated her with (his) love. (But) truly we
see her in an obvious error (in her rash approach, without
plugging all the loopholes)." |
| 31
So that when she heard of their plan (of extending their
help in a crafty way), she sent for them and prepared for
them a cushioned couch (to relax at the banquet),
and she provided each one of them a knife (to use in
the repast), and she said: "(Yusuf!) come out
in their presence (and serve them in the banquet)."
So when they saw him, they deemed him great (in charm, beauty
and dignity), and (all of them scuffled and jostled to
have fun with him, and in the hustle and tussle) they cut
their hands; and they said (among them): "Blameless
be Allah! this is no human being (to be enticed by us)!
He is none but a noble angel (in beauty and purity, as he
did not yield himself to our paragon of beauty)!" |
| 32
She said (with a note of triumph at their failure): "He
is the one about whom you blamed me (for my failure in enticing
him). And certainly I (strongly) desired him to yield
himself (to me), but he protected himself (and I
failed as you failed). And (let it be known that) if
he does not do what I command him, he will certainly be imprisoned
(on some ground or other), and he will be among the humbled." |
| 33
He said: "My Rabb! the prison is dearer to me than that
to which they invite (and importune) me. And if You do
not turn away from me their plot, I may incline towards them
(as human nature is weak) and become of the ignorant
(who do not know that beneath the rose lies the serpent, and
there is no leap from Delilah's lap to Abraham's bosom)." |
| 34
So his Rabb responded to him and turned away from him their
plot (so he did not fall into the trap of Zulaikha and her
friends). Truly He,- He is all-Hearing, all-Knowing. |
| 35
Then (going through the well-worked-out suit against
him by Zulaikha and her friends) it appeared to them
(-to the judges) after they had seen the evidences (of
his innocence and their wounded hands) that (to avoid
repetition of such incidence) they should put him in prison
for a time. |
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