Then when the wife of the Aziz heard of their backbiting of her and their trickery in blaming her, she sent for them calling them to visit her, and she prepared for them what they recline upon of cushions, and what they eat of food, and she gave each one of them a knife to cut the food, then she said to Joseph: "Come out before them," then when they saw him they magnified him and honored him, and his beauty and splendor seized them, so they cut their hands while they were cutting the food from the excess of wonder and bewilderment, and they said as ones wondering: "Allah forbid, this is not of the genus of humans; because his beauty is not customary in humans, he is not but a noble angel from the angels."