"[The king] said [to the ladies]: "What was your affair when ye did seek to seduce Joseph from his [true] self?" The ladies said: "Allah preserve us! no evil know we against him!" Said the 'Aziz's wife: "Now is the truth manifest [to all]: it was I who sought to seduce him from his [true] self: He is indeed of those who are [ever] true [and virtuous]."— Yusuf Ali translation