So when she heard of their accusation, she sent for them and
prepared a banquet for them; she gave each one of them a knife (to cut the
foodstuff with), and she said [(to Yûsuf (Joseph)]: "Come out before
them." Then, when they saw him, they exalted him (at his beauty) and (in
their astonishment) cut their hands. They said: "How perfect is Allâh (or
Allâh forbid)! No man is this! This is none other than a noble angel!" (31) She said: "This
is he (the young man) about whom you did blame me, and I did seek to seduce
him, but he refused. And now if he refuses to obey my order, he shall certainly
be cast into prison, and will be one of those who are disgraced." (32) He said:"O my
Lord! Prison is dearer to me than that to which they invite me. Unless You turn away their plot from me, I will feel inclined
towards them and be one (of those who commit sin and deserve blame or those who
do deeds) of the ignorant." (33) So his Lord answered his invocation and
turned away from him their plot. Verily, He is the All-Hearer, the All-Knower.
(34) Then it occurred to
them, after they had seen the proofs (of his innocence) to imprison him for a
time. (35) And there entered with him two young men in the prison. One of
them said: "Verily, I saw myself (in a dream) pressing wine." The
other said: "Verily, I saw myself (in a dream) carrying bread on my head
and birds were eating thereof." (They said): "Inform us of the
interpretation of this. Verily, we think you are one of the Muhsinûn (doers of
good)." (36) He said: "No food will come to you (in wakefulness or in
dream) as your provision, but I will inform (in wakefulness) its interpretation
before it (the food) comes. This is of that which my Lord has taught me.
Verily, I have abandoned the religion of a people that believe not in Allâh and
are disbelievers in the Hereafter (i.e. the