They said: "Mixed up false dreams and we are not skilled in
the interpretation of dreams." (44) Then the man who was released (one of the two
who were in prison), now at length remembered and said: "I will tell you
its interpretation, so send me forth." (45) (He said): "O
Yûsuf (Joseph), the man of truth! Explain to us (the dream) of seven fat cows
whom seven lean ones were devouring, and of seven green ears of corn, and
(seven) others dry, that I may return to the people, and that they may
know." (46) [(Yûsuf (Joseph)] said: "For seven consecutive years, you
shall sow as usual and that (the harvest) which you reap you shall leave it in
ears, (all) - except a little of it which you may eat. (47) "Then will come
after that, seven hard (years), which will devour what you have laid by in
advance for them, (all) except a little of that which you have guarded (stored)
(48) "Then thereafter
will come a year in which people will have abundant rain and in which they will
press (wine and oil)." (49) And the king said: "Bring him to
me." But when the messenger came to him, [Yûsuf (Joseph)] said:
"Return to your lord and ask him, 'What happened to the women who cut
their hands? Surely, my Lord (Allâh) is Well-Aware of their plot.'" (50) (The King) said (to
the women): "What was your affair when you did seek to seduce Yûsuf
(Joseph)?" The women said: "Allâh forbid! No evil know we against
him!" The wife of Al-'Azîz said: "Now the truth is manifest (to all),
it was I who sought to seduce him, and he is surely of the truthful." (51) [Then Yûsuf (Joseph)
said: "I asked for this enquiry] in order that he (Al-'Azîz) may know that
I betrayed him not in his (absence). And, verily! Allâh guides not the plot of
the betrayers.[] (52)