[ 247 ] وَرَاوَدَتْهُ الَّتِي هُوَ فِي بَيْتِهَا عَنْ...

23 - 24) With his Divine and beautiful face and feature, Joseph attracted the kind attention of AZIZ, as well as ZULAIKHAH, his beautiful wife. Besides the extraordinary physical and spiritual beauty of Joseph, there were other factors too, that made the young woman to fall in a burning love with Josephِher luxurious and comfortable lifeِhaving no childrenِand after all being entirely free from restrictions, helped to cast her into a passionate and fervent love for Joseph.

[ 248 ] Although her husband had asked her to mother Joseph and treat him as an adopted son, she could not help cherishing an ardent love for him, seeking to satisfy her own selfish passion and carnal desires, while Joseph was thinking otherwise. In spite of her tender love for him, she still looked at Joseph with the eye of a slave servant, and could not recognize the moral purity, and spiritual dignity of the godly young man! And here was where the conflict between them began.

She did all that she could to attract his attention to her sexual beauties but she always failed! One day when she and he were both alone in the house, she dressed herself with her most beautiful and sexual dresses, and then locked the doors hiding the keys and exposed herself indecently to Joseph:ِ ``And she in whose house he was, solicited him, and locked the doors, and she said: come on! Here I am yours!'' Joseph severly retarded her advances, saying:ِ ``God forbid!

My Lord has honoured my position, and the oppressors will not prosper.'' His appeal was firstly his faith in God and the law that was sent down to his fathers, Abraham and Jacob.