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وَقالَ المَلِكُ ائتوني بِهِ ۖ فَلَمّا جاءَهُ الرَّسولُ قالَ ارجِع إِلىٰ رَبِّكَ فَاسأَلهُ ما بالُ النِّسوَةِ اللّاتي قَطَّعنَ أَيدِيَهُنَّ ۚ إِنَّ رَبّي بِكَيدِهِنَّ عَليمٌ

Yusuf Ali

So the king said: “Bring ye him unto me.”1 But when the messenger came to him, (Joseph) said: “Go thou back to thy lord, and ask him, ###?What is the state of mind of the ladies who cut their hands??2 For my Lord is certainly well aware of their snare.”3
  • The cupbearer must have reported Joseph’s interpretation to the king, and the king naturally wanted to see Joseph himself. He sent a messenger to fetch him.
  • The king’s messenger must have expected that a prisoner would be only too overjoyed at the summons of the king. But Joseph, sure of himself, wanted some assurance that he would be safe from the sort of nagging and persecution to which he had been subjected by the ladies. We saw in verse 33 above that he preferred prison to their solicitations. He must therefore know what was in the mind of the women now.
  • If the king (“thy lord”) did not know of all the snares which had been laid for Joseph by the ladies, God (“my Lord”) knew all their secret motives and plots.