[1] The Right to Remove False Accusations from Oneself

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Allah, The Most High, said:

وَقَالَ ٱلْمَلِكُ ٱئْتُونِى بِهِۦ فَلَمَّا جَآءَهُ ٱلرَّسُولُ قَالَ ٱرْجِعْ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَسْـَٔلْهُ مَا بَالُ ٱلنِّسْوَةِ ٱلَّٰتِى قَطَّعْنَ أَيْدِيَهُنَّ إِنَّ رَبِّى بِكَيْدِهِنَّ عَلِيمٌ

And the king said: “Bring him to me.” But when the messenger came to him, [Yusuf] said: “Return to your lord and ask him, ‘What happened to the women who cut their hands? Surely, my Lord (Allah) is Well-Aware of their plot’.

قَالَ مَا خَطْبُكُنَّ إِذْ رَٰوَدتُّنَّ يُوسُفَ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ قُلْنَ حَٰشَ لِلَّهِ مَا عَلِمْنَا عَلَيْهِ مِن سُوٓءٍ قَالَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْـَٰٔنَ حَصْحَصَ ٱلْحَقُّ أَنَا۠ رَٰوَدتُّهُۥ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ وَإِنَّهُۥ لَمِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ

(The King) said (to the women): “What was your affair when you did seek to seduce Yusuf (Joseph)?” The women said: “Allah forbid! No evil know we against him!” The wife of Al-‘Aziz said: “Now the truth is manifest (to all), it was I who sought to seduce him, and he is surely of the truthful.” [Yusuf 5051]

So the king demand their presence and said: “What was your affair when you tried to seduce Yusuf?” Meaning: what was your situation “when you tried to seduce Yusuf?” Did you see anything from him that would raise suspicion? So they declared him innocent and said: “Allah forbid! No evil know we against him!” Meaning, neither a little nor a lot. Thus, the reason upon which the accusation was based was removed, then nothing remained except what was with the wife of Al-ʿAzīz.

So the wife of Al-ʿAzīz said: “Now the truth is manifest (to all), it was I who sought to seduce him, and he is surely of the truthful” in his statements and innocence. [An Excerpt from Tafsir as-Sadi]