Joseph
12. Yūsuf
يوسف
Page #239
12:32
قَالَتْ
فَذَلِكُنَّ
الَّذِي
لُمْتُنَّنِي
فِيهِ
وَلَقَدْ
رَاوَدتُّهُ
عَن
نَّفْسِهِ
فَاسْتَعْصَمَ
وَلَئِن
لَّمْ
يَفْعَلْ
مَا
آمُرُهُ
لَيُسْجَنَنَّ
وَلَيَكُونًا
مِّنَ
الصَّاغِرِينَ
qālat fa-dhālikunna lladhī lumtunnanī fīhi wa-la-qad rāwadtuhū ʿan nafsihī fa-staʿṣama wa-la-ʾin lam yafʿal mā ʾāmuruhū la-yusjananna wa-la-yakūnan mina ṣ-ṣāghirīna
She said: "There before you is the man about whom ye did blame me! I did seek to seduce him from his (true) self but he did firmly save himself guiltless!.... and now, if he doth not my bidding, he shall certainly be cast into prison, and (what is more) be of the company of the vilest!"
— Abdullah Yusufali
She said, ‘He is the one on whose account you blamed me. Certainly, I did solicit him, but he was continent, and if he does not do what I bid him, surely he shall be imprisoned and humbled.’
