And when these matters necessitated his elevation, he was then the farthest thing from prison if the people were capable of managing their affairs according to the soundness of their minds. Allah, the Most High, informed that they opposed the call to righteousness and exchanged misguidance for guidance. This is due to His decree that imprisonment is a great cause for diverting their plots away from him and establishing honor and power for him. They acted - while knowing that this was oppression and folly - in response to the overwhelming command of Allah and in manifestation of his high status by repeatedly opposing the norms, demolishing the soundness of the causes one after another. So He said: "Then" for this meaning, which is that they should have been [from -] his imprisonment at the utmost distance. "Bada" means it appeared after being hidden, as is their custom. The appearance in opinion is the change in it due to the emergence of what had not been apparent from it.

And when that appearance occurred at a time in history, they changed afterward to another opinion. The neighbor introduced a sign of that and said: "After they saw" meaning their sight of "the decisive signs confirming his innocence and establishing his integrity from the tearing of the shirt and the testimony of the witness and other than that.

And when the doer of "bada" is an opinion, he was pleased with his saying, confirming, because he does not believe that a person would do what the prohibitor of it appeared to him: "They will surely imprison him" and he will remain in prison "for a time" meaning until that rumor is forgotten, and the people show that if it [had] loved him, it would not have strived for his imprisonment. It is said that that time was seven years. It is said that the reason for that is that she said to the Aziz: "This has disgraced me among the people while he is apologizing to them and describing the matter as he likes, and I am imprisoned. So either you allow me to go out and apologize as he apologizes, or you equate him with me in prison." Abu Hayyan said: Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them, said: "So he was commanded regarding him, and he was carried on a donkey, and a drum was beaten before him, and it was proclaimed in the markets of Egypt that 'Joseph the Hebrew' wanted his mistress. So this is his recompense that he should be imprisoned!" Abu Salih said: Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them, did not mention this story except that he wept - ended. And this is evidence for his saying: "Indeed, your plot is great" [Yusuf: 28].

Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi said in the book of Al-Lawa'ih: And in general, all the conditions of Joseph, blessings and peace be upon him, are kindness in harshness, and a blessing in the concealment of a calamity and retribution, and ease in hardship, and hope in despair, and salvation after there is no escape. The driver of destiny may sometimes drive destiny to the destined with harshness, and sometimes he may drive it with kindness. Oppression and violence have a more praiseworthy outcome and less consequence - ended.