Surah Yusuf Tafseer

The News reaches Women in the City, Who also plot against Yusuf

Allah states that the news of what happened between the wife of the `Aziz and Yusuf spread in the city, that is, Egypt, and people talked about it,

وَقَالَ نِسْوَةٌ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ

And women in the city said...,

such as women of chiefs and princes said, while admonishing and criticizing the wife of the Aziz,

امْرَأَةُ الْعَزِيزِ تُرَاوِدُ فَتَاهَا عَن نَّفْسِهِ

The wife of the Aziz is seeking to seduce her (slave) young man,

she is luring her servant to have sex with her,

قَدْ شَغَفَهَا حُبًّا

indeed she loves him violently;

her love for him filled her heart and engulfed it,

إِنَّا لَنَرَاهَا فِي ضَلَلٍ مُّبِينٍ

verily, we see her in plain error.

by loving him and trying to seduce him