So when she (Zulaikha) heard their deceitful talk, she sent for them and arranged a meeting for them. (She placed fruit before them) and gave each one of them a knife and requested (Yusuf): ‘Walk out before them (so that they may realize the cause of my state of mind).’ So, when they glanced at Yusuf (Joseph and) saw (his dazzling beauty), they began to exalt (the charm of his ecstatic beauty) and (in a dazed state) cut their hands (instead of fruits served to them). And (having seen him) exclaimed (spontaneously): ‘God save us! This is not a human being; he must be some exalted angel (i.e. an embodiment of light descending from the transcendent realm of divinity)!’