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| 44. They replied, `These are confused dreams and we do not know the interpretation of confused dreams.' 45. And he of the two who was released and who now remembered after a time, said, `I will let you know its interpretation, therefore, send ye me.' 46. And he came to Joseph and said, `Joseph ! O thou man of truth, explain to us the meaning of seeing in a dream seven fat kine which seven lean ones devour, and of seven green ears of corn and seven others withered; that I may return to the people so that they may know the interpretation.' 47. Joseph replied, `You shall sow for seven years, working diligently throughout; then leave, what you reap in its ear, except a little which you shall eat; 48. `Then shall come after that seven hard years, which shall consume all that you shall have laid by in advance for them except a little which you may preserve; 49. `Then shall come after that a year in which people shall be relieved and which they shall give presents to each other. 50. And the King said, `Bring him to me.' But when the messenger came to him, he said, `Go back to thy lord and ask him how fare the women who cut their hands; for, my Lord well knows their crafty design.' 51. The King said to the women, `What was the truth of that matter of yours when you sought to seduce Joseph against his will ?' They said, `He kept away from sin for fear of ALLAH - we have known no evil against him.' The wife of Aziz said, `Now has the truth come to light. It was I who sought to seduce him against his will and surely, he is of the truthful.' 52. Joseph said, I ask for this inquiry to be made so that the Aziz might know that I was not unfaithful to him in his absence and that ALLAH suffers not the device of the unfaithful to succeed; |
