Surah Yusuf Ayat 24

Istri al-Aziz tidak mau berhenti, karena ia menganggap Yusuf sebagai budak yang harus melaksanakan keinginan dan perintahnya. Bila Yusuf menolak, istri al-Aziz akan mencelakakannya. Tetapi dari pihak Yusuf, ia telah bertekad pula untuk menolaknya karena perbuatan itu melanggar agama, mengkhianati tuannya yang telah berjasa dan berbuat baik kepadanya dan merusak kehormatannya dan kehormatan tuannya. Yusuf dan istri al-Aziz masing-masing telah mempunyai tekad yang bertolak belakang antara satu sama lainnya.

And she certainly desired him she sought sexual intercourse with him and he would have desired her too he would have sought the same had it not been that he saw the proof of his Lord Ibn ‘Abbās said ‘Jacob was made to appear before him and he struck his Joseph’s breast whereupon his sexual desire withdrew from his body through his fingernails the response to lawlā ‘had it not been’ has been omitted understood to be la-jāma‘ahā ‘he would have lain with her’. So it was that We made him see the proof that We might ward off from him evil betrayal and lewdness the act of fornication. Truly he was of Our devoted servants in terms of obedience mukhlisīn a variant reading has mukhlasīn in other words ‘chosen/purified servants’.