52 Preface ذٰلِكَ لِيَعلَمَ أَنّي لَم أَخُنهُ بِالغَيبِ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ لا يَهدي كَيدَ الخائِنينَAli Quli Qarai[Joseph said], [I initiated] this [inquiry], that he1 may know that I did not betray him in his absence, and that Allah does not further the schemes of the treacherous. That is, the Egyptian nobleman in whose house Joseph (ʿa) was living.