We wrote for him on the Tablets instruction about everything and a detailed explanation of all things: “Hold firmly to them, and command your people to take what is best in them. I will show you the home of the defiantly disobedient.”
I will turn away from My signs those who act arrogantly on the earth without right. Even if they see every sign, they will not believe in it. If they see the path of right guidance, they will not take it as a path, but if they see the path of error, they will take it as a path. That is because they denied Our signs and were heedless of them.
The deeds of those who deny Our signs and the meeting of the Hereafter have come to nothing. Will they be repaid for anything other than what they used to do?
In Moses’s absence, his people made from their ornaments a calf-shaped body that produced a lowing sound. Did they not see that it could neither speak to them nor guide them to any path? They took it for worship and were wrongdoers.
When they were overcome with regret and realized that they had gone astray, they said, “If our Lord does not have mercy on us and forgive us, we will certainly be among the losers.”
When Moses returned to his people, angry and deeply grieved, he said, “How terrible is what you did in my absence! Could you not wait for your Lord’s command?” He threw down the Tablets and seized his brother by the head, pulling him toward himself. Aaron said, “Son of my mother, the people overpowered me and nearly killed me. So do not let the enemies rejoice over me, and do not count me among the wrongdoing people.”
Those who took the calf for worship will be overtaken by anger from their Lord and humiliation in the life of this world. This is how We repay those who invent lies.
Moses chose seventy men from his people for Our appointed time. Then when the earthquake seized them, he said, “My Lord, had You willed, You could have destroyed them before, and me as well. Will You destroy us for what the foolish among us have done? This is only Your test: through it You let whoever You will go astray and guide whoever You will. You are our Protector, so forgive us and have mercy on us. You are the best of those who forgive.
And decree good for us in this world and in the Hereafter. We have truly turned back to You.” He said, “My punishment, I afflict with it whomever I will, but My mercy encompasses everything. I will decree it for those who are mindful of Me, give zakat, and believe in Our signs,”
those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find described in what they have with them in the Torah and the Gospel. He commands them to what is right, forbids them from what is wrong, makes good things lawful for them, forbids harmful things to them, and lifts from them their burdens and the restraints that were upon them. So those who believe in him, honor him, support him, and follow the light sent down with him are the ones who will succeed.
Say, “People, I am Allah’s Messenger to all of you, from the One to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. There is no god except Him. He gives life and causes death. So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the unlettered Prophet who believes in Allah and His words, and follow him so that you may be rightly guided.”
We divided them into twelve tribes as communities. When Moses’s people asked him for water, We revealed to him, “Strike the rock with your staff.” Then twelve springs burst from it, and each group knew its drinking place. We shaded them with clouds and sent down manna and quails to them: “Eat from the good things We have provided for you.” They did not wrong Us, but they used to wrong themselves.
And remember when they were told, “Live in this town and eat from it wherever you wish. Say, ‘Relieve us of our burdens,’ and enter the gate humbly. We will forgive your sins and give even more to those who do good.”
But the wrongdoers among them changed the words they had been told into something else. So We sent upon them a punishment from the sky because of their wrongdoing.
Ask them about the town by the sea, when they broke the Sabbath. Their fish came to them openly on their Sabbath, but on days when they did not observe the Sabbath, they did not come to them. In this way We tested them because they were defiantly disobedient.
When a group among them said, “Why do you advise a people whom Allah will destroy or punish severely?” they said, “So that we may have an excuse before your Lord, and perhaps they may become mindful of Him.”
Then when they forgot what they had been reminded of, We saved those who forbade wrongdoing and seized those who did wrong with a severe punishment because they were defiantly disobedient.
And remember when your Lord declared that He would send against them, until the Day of Resurrection, people who would subject them to severe suffering. Your Lord is swift in punishment, and He is certainly Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.
We divided them into communities across the earth. Some of them were righteous and others were otherwise. We tested them with good times and bad so that they might return.
Ziqra