Meaning: And sought to seduce him · Also translated as: sought to seduce me, seeking to seduce, I sought to seduce him, you sought to seduce
Forms in the Quran
رَٰوَدتُّهُۥ×2
وَرَٰوَدَتْهُ×1
رَٰوَدَتْنِى×1
تُرَٰوِدُ×1
رَٰوَدتُّنَّ×1
سَنُرَٰوِدُ×1
رَٰوَدُوهُ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الرود: التردد في طلب الشيء برفق، يقال:
الراء والواو والدال معظم بابه [يدل] على مجيء وذهاب من انطلاق في جهة واحدة. تقول: راودته على أن يفعل كذا، إذا أردته على فعله. والرود: فعل الرائد. يقال بعثنا رائدا يرود الكلأ، أي ينظر ويطلب.
But she in whose house
He was, sought to seduce him
From his (true) self: she fastened
The doors, and said:
"Now come, thou (dear one)!"
He said: "God forbid!
Truly (thy husband) is
My lord! he made
My sojourn agreeable!
Truly to no good
Come those who do wrong!"
He said: "It was she
That sought to seduce me—
From my (true) self." And one
Of her household saw (this)
And bore witness, (thus):—
"If it be that his shirt
Is rent from the front, then
Is her tale true,
And he is a liar!
Ladies said in the City:
"The wife of the (great) ’Aziz
Is seeking to seduce her slave
From his (true) self:
Truly hath he inspired her
With violent love: we see
She is evidently going astray."
She said: "There before you
Is the man about whom
Ye did blame me!
I did seek to seduce him from
His (true) self but he did
Firmly save himself guiltless!…
And now, if he doth not
My bidding, he shall certainly
Be cast into prison,
And (what is more)
Be of the company of the vilest!"
(The king) said (to the ladies):
"What was your affair
When ye did seek to seduce
Joseph from his (true) self?"
The ladies said: "God
Preserve us! no evil
Know we against him!"
Said the ’Azīz's wife:
"Now is the truth manifest
(To all): it was I
Who sought to seduce him
From his (true) self:
He is indeed of those
Who are (ever) true (and virtuous).