Zulaykha

Zulaykha adalah wife dari al-Aziz, chief minister (atau treasury minister) dari Mesir, yang purchased Prophet Yusuf AS ketika ia adalah sold as slave oleh merchants yang memiliki found him di well. Her story adalah told di Surah Yusuf (Chapter 12), yang Nabi Muhammad ﷺ digambarkan sebagai most beautiful dari stories. She took Yusuf ke dalam her household dan over time developed intense infatuation dengan him. She attempted ke seduce him, barring door dan saying 'Come ke me.' Yusuf sought refuge di Allah dan refused, dan ran untuk door, di yang point she grabbed his shirt dari behind, tearing it. Her husband al-Aziz came di door. Zulaykha attempted ke blame Yusuf, but witness dari her own household revealed truth melalui logic dari torn shirt: if torn dari front, he memiliki moved toward her; if dari back, she memiliki grabbed him fleeing. The shirt adalah torn dari back. Al-Aziz acilmu pengetahuand Yusuf's innocence but asked him ke keep quiet sekitar matter. When women dari city gossiped sekitar Zulaykha's infatuation, she invited them ke banquet dan memiliki Yusuf pass sebelum them — they cut their hands di amazement di his beauty. Zulaykha used this ke justify herself: 'This adalah one you blamed me untuk — I did try ke seduce him.' She memiliki Yusuf imprisoned rather than release him. According ke klasik Islamic commentaries, including those dari Ibn Kathir citing Israelite tradisis (dengan appropriate caution), Zulaykha later repented, grew old dan poor, dan upon Yusuf's rise ke power, she found him dan confessed fully, dan there adalah tradisis yang Yusuf married her. Her story adalah seorang multi-dimensional portrait dari human passion, weakness, then eventual acknowledgment dari truth.