And women in the city said, “The wife of ʿAziz is seeking to seduce her slave boy; he has impassioned her with love. Indeed, we see her [to be] in clear error.” So when she heard of their scheming, she sent for them and prepared for them a banquet and gave each one of them a knife and said [to Yusuf], “Come out before them.” And when they saw him, they greatly admired him and cut their hands and said, “Perfect is Allah! This is not a man; this is none but a noble angel.” She said, “That is the one about whom you blamed me. And I certainly sought to seduce him, but he firmly refused; and if he will not do what I order him, he will surely be imprisoned and will be of those disgraced.” [Yusuf] said,
Rabbi assijnu ahabbu ilayya mimma yad’oonanee ilayhi wa-illa tasrif ‘annee kaydahunna asbu ilayhinna waakun mina al jahileen
“My Lord, prison is more to my liking than that to which they invite me. And if You do not avert from me their plan, I might incline toward them and [thus] be of the ignorant.”
So his Lord responded to him and averted from him their plan. Indeed, He is the All Hearing, the All Knowing