The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 225
PT. 12 YUSUF CH. 12 قَالَ هِيَ رَاوَدَتْنِي عَنْ نَّفْسِي وَشَهِدَ He said, “She it was who. 27 sought to seduce me against my شَاهِدٌ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا إِنْ كَانَ قَمِيصُهُ قُدَّ will. And a witness of her household bore witness saying, مِنْ قَبْلِ فَصَدَقَتْ وَهُوَ مِنَ الْكَذِبِينَ If his shirt is torm from the front, then she has spoken the truth and he is of the liars. 1530 وَإِنْ كَانَ قَمِيصُهُ قُدَّ مِنْ دُبُرِ فَكَذَبَتْ But if his shirt is torn from. 28 وَهُوَ مِنَ الصُّدِقِينَ behind, then she has lied and he is of the truthful. ' 1531 فَلَمَّا رَا قَمِيصَهُ قُدَّ مِنْ دُبُرِ قَالَ إِنَّهُ مِنْ So when he saw his shirt. 29 torn from behind, he said, 'Surely, this is a device of you women. Your device is indeed mighty. 1532 1530. Commentary: Nothing can approach the nobility of mind of God's Elect. In spite of the fact that Joseph was grievously sinned against, he bore himself with great dignity and refrained from exposing the evil deed of his temptress. But when she herself had the hardihood to bring an utterly false accusation against him, he was compelled to state the facts. A person who appeared to have noticed that Joseph's shirt had been torn at the back at once came to the conclusion that the woman was to blame. Without having the courage to incriminate her, but wishing to exculpate Joseph, he gave his evidence in a general manner as if he were blaming no one, but was merely laying down a principle by which the culprit could be discovered. 1433 193) JESSELZSNIE كَيْدِكُنَّ إِنَّ كَيْدَكُنَّ عَظِيمُ 1531. Commentary: See note on the preceding verse. 1532. Commentary: The pronoun "he" in the clause, when he saw his shirt, stands for the master of the house and not for the man who bore witness. The words, Your device is indeed mighty, will thus be taken to have been spoken by Joseph's master, and the pronoun "your" refers to "women" generally. In his endeavour to screen his wife as far as possible, he appears to accuse the whole of the fair sex of cunning and guile. But cunning is no characteristic of women; only those women who are oppressed and tyrannized over and whose rights are trampled upon generally develop a tendency to conspiring and adopting wily and cunning ways to avenge