And when he provided them with their provision he said: Bring unto me a brother of yours from your father. See ye not that I fill up the measure and I am the best of hosts?
Thus gave We power to Joseph in the land. He was the owner of it where be pleased. We reach with our mercy whom We will. We lose not the reward of the good.
And the king said: Bring him unto me that I may attach him to my person. And when he had talked with him he said: Lo! thou art today our presence established and trusts
(Then Joseph said: I asked for) this, that he (my lord) may now that I betrayed him not in secret, and that surely Allah guideth not the snare of the betrayers.
He (the king) (then sent for those women and) said: What happened when ye asked an evil act of Joseph? They answered: Allah Blameless! We know no evil of him. Said the wife of the ruler: Now the truth is out. I asked of him an evil act, and he is surely of the truthful.
And the King said: Bring him unto me. And when the messenger came unto him, he (Joseph) said: Return unto thy lord and ask him what was the case of the women who cut their. hands. Lo! my lord knoweth thee guile.