The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 226
CH. 12 YUSUF PT. 12 سكتة يُوسُفُ أَعْرِضْ عَنْ هَذَا وَاسْتَغْفِرِى O Joseph, turn away from. 30 this and thou, O woman, ask لِذَنْبِكِ إِنَّكِ كُنْتِ مِنَ الْخَطِينَ sin forgiveness for thy Certainly, thou art of the guilty. '1533 R. 4. وَقَالَ نِسْوَةٌ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ امْرَاتُ الْعَزِيزِ ,And women in the city said. 31 تُرَاوِدُ فَتْهَا عَنْ نَّفْسِهِ ۚ قَدْ شَغَفَهَا seduce her slave-boy against his حُبًّا إِنَّا لَنَرْبهَا فِي ضَللٍ مُّبِيْنٍ 'The wife of the ‘Aziz seeks to will. He has infatuated her with '1534 see her in love. Indeed, we manifest error. themselves on their oppressors. Moreover, the words of a man spoken casually cannot be regarded as an established truth and must be treated with reserve. 1533. Commentary: Here again there is a difference between the Bible and the Quran. According to the Bible Joseph's master believed the allegation of his wife to be true and held Joseph to be guilty and was angry with him (Gen. 39:19). But other verses of the Bible itself contradict this statement and support the Quran. In Genesis it is stated that when Joseph was sent to prison, its keeper committed all the prisoners to his care. The prison was into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound (Gen. 40:2,3). Now it does not stand to reason that the keeper of the prison who was subordinate to Potiphar, Joseph's master, should have given the latter a position of honour in the prison when who sought to commit an outrage his superior looked upon him as one upon his wife. Not only that but we find that Potiphar himself put two of Pharaoh's officers, the chief of the butlers and the chief of the bakers in charge of Joseph while the former were sent to the same prison (Gen. 40:4). These facts clearly show that Joseph's master believed him to be innocent of the heinous charge brought against him by his wife. 1534. Important Words: عز The Aziz is derived from العزيز under the charge of Potiphar, captain of the guard (Joseph's master), nay, it was in Potiphar's own house, as the following Biblical verses show: And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, 1434 which means, he was or became mighty, potent, powerful or strong; or he was or became high or elevated in rank or condition or state; means, mighty, potent, powerful or strong; high or elevated in rank or condition