وَمآٰ اَعْجَلَكَ عَنْ قَوْمِكَ یاٰمُوسٰ
[God said,] ‘O Moses, what has prompted you to hasten ahead of your people?’ ﴾83﴿He said, ‘They are close upon my heels, and I hurried on to You, my Lord, that You may be pleased.’ ﴾84﴿He said, ‘Indeed We tried your people in your absence, and the Samiri has led them astray.’ ﴾85﴿Thereupon Moses returned to his people, indignant and grieved. He said, ‘O my people! Did your Lord not give you a true promise? Did the period [of my absence] seem too long to you? Or did you desire that your Lord’s wrath should descend on you and so you failed your tryst with me?’ ﴾86﴿They said, ‘We did not fail our tryst with you of our own accord, but we were laden with the weight of those people’s ornaments, and we cast them [into the fire] and so did the Samiri.’ ﴾87﴿Then he produced for them a calf—a [lifeless] body with a low—and they said, This is your god and the god of Moses, so he forgot! ﴾88﴿Did they not see that it did not answer them, nor could it bring them any benefit or harm? ﴾89﴿Aaron had certainly told them earlier, ‘O my people! You are only being tested by it. Indeed your Lord is the All-beneficent. So follow me and obey my command!’ ﴾90﴿They had said, ‘We will keep on clinging to it until Moses returns to us.’ ﴾91﴿He said, ‘O Aaron! What kept you, when you saw them going astray, ﴾92﴿from following me? Did you disobey my command?’ ﴾93﴿He said, ‘O son of my mother! Do not grab my beard or my head! I feared lest you should say, ‘‘You have caused a rift among the Children of Israel and did not heed my word [of advice].’’’ ﴾94﴿He said, ‘What is your business, O Samiri?’ ﴾95﴿He said, ‘I saw what they did not see. I took a handful [of dust] from the messenger’s trail and threw it. That is how my soul prompted me.’ ﴾96﴿He said, ‘Begone! It shall be your [lot] throughout life to say, ‘‘Do not touch me!’’ Indeed, there is a tryst for you which you will not fail to keep! Now look at your god to whom you went on clinging. We will burn it down and then scatter it[s ashes] into the sea. ﴾97﴿Indeed your God is Allah. There is no god except Him. He embraces all things in [His] knowledge.’ ﴾98﴿Thus do We relate to you some accounts of what is past. Certainly, We have given you a Reminder from Ourselves. ﴾99﴿Whoever disregards it shall bear a burden [of punishment] on the Day of Resurrection, ﴾100﴿remaining in it [forever]. Evil is their burden on the Day of Resurrection ﴾101﴿—the day the Trumpet will be blown; on that day We shall muster the guilty with blind eyes. ﴾102﴿They will whisper to one another: ‘You have stayed only for ten [days].’ ﴾103﴿We know best what they will say, when the smartest of them in approach will say, ‘You stayed only a day!’ ﴾104﴿They question you concerning the mountains. Say, ‘My Lord will scatter them [like dust].’ ﴾105﴿Then He will leave it a level plain. ﴾106﴿You will not see any crookedness or unevenness in it. ﴾107﴿On that day they will follow the summoner without zigzagging. Their voices will be muted before the All-beneficent, and you will hear nothing but a murmur. ﴾108﴿Intercession will not avail that day except from him whom the All-beneficent allows and approves of his word. ﴾109﴿He knows what is before them and behind them, though they do not comprehend Him in their knowledge. ﴾110﴿All faces shall be humbled before the Living One, the All-sustainer, and those who bear [the burden of] wrongdoing will fail. ﴾111﴿But whoever does righteous deeds, being faithful, will neither fear any injustice or disparagement. ﴾112﴿Thus We have sent it down as an Arabic Quran and We have paraphrased the warnings in it variously so that they may be Godwary, or it may prompt them to remembrance. ﴾113﴿So exalted is Allah, the True Sovereign. Do not hasten with the Quran before its revelation is completed for you, and say, ‘My Lord! Increase me in knowledge.’ ﴾114﴿Certainly We had enjoined Adam earlier; but he forgot, and We did not find any resoluteness in him. ﴾115﴿When We said to the angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam,’ they prostrated, but not Iblis: he refused. ﴾116﴿We said, ‘O Adam! This is indeed an enemy of yours and your mate’s. So do not let him expel you from paradise, or you will be miserable. ﴾117﴿You will neither be hungry in it nor naked. ﴾118﴿You will neither be thirsty in it, nor suffer from [the heat of] the sun.’ ﴾119﴿Then Satan tempted him. He said, ‘O Adam! Shall I show you the tree of immortality, and an imperishable kingdom?’ ﴾120﴿So they both ate of it, and their nakedness became evident to them, and they began to stitch over themselves with the leaves of paradise. Adam disobeyed his Lord, and went amiss. ﴾121﴿Then his Lord chose him, and turned to him clemently, and guided him. ﴾122﴿He said, ‘Get down both of you from it, all together, being enemies of one another! Yet, should any guidance come to you from Me, those who follow My guidance will not go astray, nor will they be miserable. ﴾123﴿But whoever disregards My remembrance, his shall be a wretched life, and We shall raise him blind on the Day of Resurrection.’ ﴾124﴿He will say, ‘My Lord! Why have You raised me blind, though I used to see?’ ﴾125﴿He will say: ‘So it is. Our signs came to you, but you forgot them, and so you will be forgotten today.’ ﴾126﴿Thus do We requite those who transgress and do not believe in the signs of their Lord, and the punishment of the Hereafter is severer and more lasting. ﴾127﴿Does it not dawn upon them how many generations We have destroyed before them, amid [the ruins of] whose dwellings they walk? There are indeed signs in this for those who have reason. ﴾128﴿Were it not for a prior decree of your Lord and a specified time, [their doom] would have attended [their guilt]. ﴾129﴿So be patient with what they say, and celebrate the praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before the sunset, and glorify Him in watches of the night and at the day’s ends, that you may be pleased. ﴾130﴿Do not extend your glance toward what We have provided certain groups of them as a glitter of the life of this world, so that We may test them thereby. The provision of your Lord is better and more lasting. ﴾131﴿And bid your family to prayer and be steadfast in maintaining it. We do not ask any provision of you: it is We who provide for you, and to Godwariness belongs the ultimate outcome [in the Hereafter]. ﴾132﴿They say, ‘Why does he not bring us a sign from his Lord?’ Has there not come to them a clear proof in that which is in the former scriptures? ﴾133﴿Had We destroyed them with a punishment before it, they would have surely said, ‘Our Lord! Why did You not send us an apostle so that we might have followed Your signs before we were abased and disgraced?’ ﴾134﴿Say, ‘Everyone [of us] is waiting. So wait! Soon you will know who are the people of the right path, and who is [rightly] guided.’ ﴾135﴿
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