The resistance of Joseph despaired Zulaikhah, and filled her with anger. Joseph found it more dangerous to stand arguing because she in her mad passion had made the situation very critical. At once he left her and made for the door to open it some how and run away, and when so, she too chased him. She reached him and seized the back of the collar of his shirt which was rent from behind, and meanwhile the door was opened and they found AZIZ at the door!

      Zulaikhah who was full of wrath for her love being scorned, and willing to avenge herself, had to forge some lie, and invent excuses to justify herself for her present state. There is a saying that, one guilt leads to another, and to prove one lie, many new lies are to be forged. She therefore accused him of being the assailant party in that private affair! She said:ِ

      ``What is the punishment for him who intends evil to your wife except being imprisoned, or afflicted with a painful torment?''

      Before finding herself at the threshold of public disgrace, she had forgotten that she was the wife to AZIZ of Egypt; and now by saying:ِ ``He intends evil to your wife'', she tried to incite AZIZ to violence against her innocent canaanite adopted son!

      Joseph bore himself with dignity, and was well-balanced in that decisive moment. An honest man has nothing to fear. Therefore, calm and cold, and with simplicity, he said:ِ

      ``It was she who, solicited me and who sought to seduce.''

      It was hard to clear up the real fact, because there was no eye - witness to what had happened between them, and the accusation could more easily grasp, Joseph than a married lady of the noble class. Fortunately there was a learned man of wisdom from her relatives, in accompany with AZIZ as his advisor, who managed to illustrate the truth in an obvious way. Some Islamic traditions say that the witness was a child who so wonderfully judged the matter! Whoever the witness was, he judged so clear that convinced AZIZ and all. He said:ِ

      ``If Joseph's shirt was torn at the back, he must obviously have been in a state of escape, and she pulling him from behind.''

      This judgement left no doubt for anyone that Zulaikhah was guilty and Joseph guiltless.

      AZIZ loved his lovely wife and made sure that Joseph was innocent, loyal, and faithful to him. So he treated the whole matter as the madness of youth and earthly loves, and womanish tricks. He took it easy, and only blamed his wife and asked her to repent and seek forgiveness.