With his Divine and beautiful face and feature, Joseph attracted the kind attention of AZIZ, as well as ZULAIKHAH, his beautiful wife. Besides the extraordinary physical and spiritual beauty of Joseph, there were other factors too, that made the young woman to fall in a burning love with Josephِher luxurious and comfortable lifeِhaving no childrenِand after all being entirely free from restrictions, helped to cast her into a passionate and fervent love for Joseph.

      Although her husband had asked her to mother Joseph and treat him as an adopted son, she could not help cherishing an ardent love for him, seeking to satisfy her own selfish passion and carnal desires, while Joseph was thinking otherwise.

      In spite of her tender love for him, she still looked at Joseph with the eye of a slave servant, and could not recognize the moral purity, and spiritual dignity of the godly young man! And here was where the conflict between them began.

      She did all that she could to attract his attention to her sexual beauties but she always failed!

      One day when she and he were both alone in the house, she dressed herself with her most beautiful and sexual dresses, and then locked the doors hiding the keys and exposed herself indecently to Joseph:ِ

      ``And she in whose house he was, solicited him, and locked the doors, and she said: come on! Here I am yours!''

      Joseph severly retarded her advances, saying:ِ

      ``God forbid! My Lord has honoured my position, and the oppressors will not prosper.''

      His appeal was firstly his faith in God and the law that was sent down to his fathers, Abraham and Jacob. It secondly was the duty that he and she owed to AZIZ for his kindness and the respect with which he treated both of them. It therefore seemed inevitable for Joseph to repel her and abstain himself, though it is said that; no one can resist beauty. And how could he and she with hold, when Joseph was a young man like any other, and Zulaikhah's blind love and awful beauty had placed a great trial and test in his path!:ِ

      ``And she made for him, and he too would have made for her, had he not seen the reason of his Lord.''

      Joseph could see with his spiritual eyes what Zulaikhah could not see. For example; she thought no one could see them as far as the doors were closed and locked, but Joseph had a deep faith in God who is everywhere and can see everything. So his faith gave him a proof against the Satanic Temptations of sex affairs.

      Our poetical tradition says that; in that critical instance of love decision, Zulaikha covered the face of an idol she had in a niche in the room! Joseph saw it and asked her why did she do that? She said:ِ
      ``I don't want my god to see us in the state of guilt!''

      Her assertion reminded Joseph of his Lord God who was watching them, and at once he escaped towards the door that he knew it was locked!

      Later on when Joseph was asked:ِ ``Knowing that the door was locked, why did you escape towards it?'' In answer to this question, Joseph said:ِ ``I found my duty to run away towards the door, and I knew that God had the power of opening all locks, and he did so.''