29 Preface يوسُفُ أَعرِض عَن هٰذا ۚ وَاستَغفِري لِذَنبِكِ ۖ إِنَّكِ كُنتِ مِنَ الخاطِئينَYusuf AliO Joseph, pass this over! (O wife), ask forgiveness for thy sin, for truly thou hast been at fault!”1As was only fair, he apologised to Joseph and begged him to give no further thought to the injury [hat had been done to him, first by the love-snare of his wife, secondly, by the utterly false charge made against him, and thirdly, by the scene, which must have been painful to a man of such spotless character as Joseph. That was not enough. He must ask his wife humbly to beg Joseph’s pardon for the wrong that she had done him. And he must further ask her to consider her unbecoming conduct in itself, apart from any wrong done to Joseph. (R).