Joseph
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[12:51]
[Thereupon the King sent for those women; and when they came,] he asked: "What was it that you hoped to achieve when you sought to make Joseph yield himself unto you?"
The women answered: "God save us! We did not perceive the least evil [intention] on his part!"
[And] the wife of Joseph’s former master exclaimed: "Now has the truth come to light! It was I who sought to make him yield himself unto me – whereas he, behold, was indeed speaking the truth!"

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* v.51 : Evidently, the King wanted to find out whether they had previously been encouraged by Joseph, or whether he was truly innocent. The noun khatb denotes “something that one has in view” or “desires” or “seeks to obtain”; and so the expression mā khatbukunna (lit., “what was it that you [really] had in view”) may be suitably rendered as above.
* Lit., “the wife of the great one (al-‘azīz).”