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No written description of our beloved Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa sallam) can ever do
justice to his exceptional beauty. Lady Ayesha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah be
pleased with her, described him as being more handsome than Prophet Joseph for
whom the wives of Pharaoh's ministers slit their hands on account of his handsome
appearance. She said: "If the friends of Zulayka had seen the blessed face of the
Messenger of Allah (salla Allahu alihi wa sallam) they would have cut their hearts
instead of their hands!"

“When she heard of their sly whispers,

she sent for them and prepared a banquet.
To each she gave a knife,

(then called Joseph saying,) 'Come and attend to them.'

When they saw him, they were so taken with him that they cut their hands,

and said, 'Allah save us! This is no mortal, he is no other but a noble angel!'”
Koran