Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

and said, ‘Come!!’
He said, ‘God forbid!
Indeed He is my Lord;
He has given me a good abode.¹
Indeed the wrongdoers are not felicitous.’
24 She certainly made for him;
and he would have made for her [too]
had he not beheld the proof of his Lord.
So it was,
that We might turn away from him
all evil and indecency.
He was indeed one of Our dedicated servants.
25 They raced to the door,
and she tore his shirt from behind,
and they ran into her husband at the door.
She said, ‘What is to be the requital of him
who has evil intentions for your wife
except imprisonment or a painful punishment?’
26 He said, ‘It was she who solicited me.’
A witness of her own household testified:
‘If his shirt is torn from the front,
she tells the truth and he lies.
27 But if his shirt is torn from behind,
then she lies and he tells the truth.’
28 So when he saw that his shirt was torn from behind,
he said, ‘This is [a case] of you women’s guile!
Your guile is great indeed!
29 Joseph, let this matter alone,
and you, woman, plead for forgiveness for your sin,