[Pooya/Ali Commentary 12:18] (see commentary for verse 3) [Imam Jafar bin Muhammad as Sadiq has said that while Yusuf was in the well, Jabra-il advised him to invoke Allah in the following words: ALLAHUMMA INNI AS-ALUKA BI-ANNA LAKAL HAMDU LA ILAHA ILLA ANTAL MANNANU BADI-US SAMAWATI WAL ARD DHUL JALALI WAL IKRAM AN TUSALLIYA ALA MUHAMMADIN WA ALI MUHAMMAD WA AN TAJ-ALLI MIN AMRI FARAJAN WA MAKHRAJAN WA TARZUQNI MIN HAYSU AHTASIB WA MIN HAYSU LA AHTASIB O Allah, I beseech You, praise be to You, there is no god save You, the benign, the originator of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of grandeur and honour, send Your blessings on Muhammad and on the children of Muhammad, and make my affair easy, and let it find a way-out, and provide me from wherewith I reckon, and from wherewith I do not reckon.] A caravan of merchants pulled Yusuf up with a bucket which was let down to bring water from the well. For the merchants Yusuf was an item of merchandise. The brothers, who were visiting the well daily, came to claim his price as a runaway slave, but dared not haggle over the price, lest their plan, to get rid of him, should be defeated. The shrewd merchants bought Yusuf for the paltry sum of a few dirhams. In Egypt, a high court official purchased him when he was put for sale in a public auction. He took him to his house and instructed his wife to make his stay honourable so that they might adopt him as a son. So Allah firmly established Yusuf in the land and taught him the interpretation of dreams, and when he reached the prime of life He gave him wisdom and knowledge, because Allah rewards those who are good. The wife of the high official, Zulaykha, tried to seduce him. She desired him very much. As Yusuf was one of Allah's chosen devotees, He enabled him to avert both evil and lechery from himself. She grabbed and rent his shirt from behind. Both of them raced to the door. There they met her husband outside the door. At once she saw the trouble and put the blame on Yusuf and said: 'There is no other penalty for a man who wanted to outrage your wife but imprisonment or grievous punishment." Yusuf said that it was she who wanted to seduce him. He had to tell the truth. A witness from her family testified. Yusuf's shirt was torn at the back, he must obviously have been retreating and Zulaykha must have been tugging from behind. Everybody knew the guilty party. The husband was convinced that indeed it was a woman's ruse-the wiles of women are terrible. He asked Yusuf to ignore the affair and ordered his wife to ask forgiveness for her sin. In the city the women gossiped. When she heard their slanderings, she invited them to a sumptuous feast and gave each of them a knife and called Yusuf to come out before them. When they saw him, the women were so wonderstruck with his beauty that they cut their hands.