49* "Then will come after that (period) a year in which the people will have abundant water, and in which they will press (wine and oil)."  
| |50* So the king said: "Bring ye him unto me." But when the messenger came to him, (Joseph) said: "Go thou back to thy lord, and ask him, 'What was the matter with the ladies who cut their hands'? For my Lord is certainly well aware of their snare."  
| |51* (The king) said (to the ladies): "What was your affair when ye did seek to seduce Joseph?" The ladies said: "Allah preserve us! no evil know we against him!" Said the Aziz's wife: "Now is the truth manifest (to all): it was I who sought to seduce him. He is indeed of those who are (ever) true (and virtuous).  
| |52* "This (say I), in order that he may know that I have never been false to him in his absence, and that Allah will never guide the snare of the false ones.  
| |53* "Yet I do not absolve myself (of blame): the (human) soul is certainly incites to evil, unless my Lord do bestow His Mercy: but surely my Lord is Oft- forgiving, Most Merciful."  
| |54* So the king said: "Bring him unto me; I will take him specially to serve about my own person." Therefore when he had spoken to him, he said: "Be assured this day, thou art, of high standing with us, invested with all trust!  
| |55* (Joseph) said: "Set me over the store-houses of the land: I am a good keeper, knowledgeable."  
| |56* Thus did We give established power to Joseph in the land, to take possession therein as, when, or where he pleased. We bestow of Our Mercy on whom We please, and We suffer not, to be lost, the reward of those who do good.  
| |57* But verily the reward of the Hereafter is the best, for those who believe, and are constant in righteousness.  
| |58* Then came Joseph's brethren: they entered his presence, and he knew them, but they knew him not.  
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