The King asked ˹the women˺, “What did you get when you tried to seduce Joseph?” They replied, “Allah forbid! We know nothing indecent about him.” Then the Chief Minister’s wife admitted, “Now the truth has come to light. It was I who tried to seduce him, and he is surely truthful.
Explanation
In this exclamation of divine transcendence, the original verb contains a second alif, as in the second reading. This is removed in the majority reading, and both have the same meaning [Makki]. NB: the readings are based on the same skeletal form, and Abū ʿAmr would pronounce this word the same as the others if stopping upon it: ḥāsh.