Yes, he wanted her alright, whatever the ulama of victorian speech say, but His most zealous jealousy pulled him from the brink و الهوى هو الهوة and just as He could not tolerate Yaqub’s excessive love of BinYameen so too could He not allow the Governor’s wife’s passion to submerge Yusuf: Love is beauty is sex is vitality is power, wa huwa’l-Qawwi. And the knives, don’t forget the knives, natura rossa in denti e artigli: the chasmic brink of shariat, the passion of haqiqat, the knives of severing separation.