Joseph
12. Yūsuf
يوسف
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قَالَ
هِيَ
رَاوَدَتْنِي
عَن
نَّفْسِي
وَشَهِدَ
شَاهِدٌ
مِّنْ
أَهْلِهَا
إِن
كَانَ
قَمِيصُهُ
قُدَّ
مِن
قُبُلٍ
فَصَدَقَتْ
وَهُوَ
مِنَ
الْكَاذِبِينَ
qāla hiya rāwadatnī ʿan nafsī wa-shahida shāhidun min ʾahlihā ʾin kāna qamīṣuhū qudda min qubulin fa-ṣadaqat wa-huwa mina l-kādhibīna
He said: "It was she that sought to seduce me - from my (true) self." And one of her household saw (this) and bore witness, (thus):- "If it be that his shirt is rent from the front, then is her tale true, and he is a liar!
— Abdullah Yusufali
He said, ‘It was she who solicited me.’ A witness of her own household testified [thus]: ‘If his shirt is torn from the front, she tells the truth and he lies.
