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Saheeh International

They said, "We will never cease being devoted to it [i.e., the calf] until Moses returns to us."

       

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[Moses] said, "O Aaron, what prevented you, when you saw them going astray,

    

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From following me? Then have you disobeyed my order?"

                  

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[Aaron] said, "O son of my mother, do not seize [me] by my beard or by my head. Indeed, I feared that you would say, 'You caused division among the Children of Israel, and you did not observe [or await] my word.'"

    

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[Moses] said, "And what is your case, O Sāmirī?"

                

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He said, "I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful [of dust] from the track of the messenger1 and threw it,2 and thus did my soul entice me."

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[Moses] said, "Then go. And indeed, it is [decreed] for you in [this] life to say, 'No contact.'1 And indeed, you have an appointment [in the Hereafter] you will not fail to keep. And look at your 'god' to which you remained devoted. We will surely burn it and blow it [i.e., its ashes] into the sea with a blast.

            

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Your god is only Allāh, except for whom there is no deity. He has encompassed all things in knowledge."

             

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Thus, [O Muḥammad], We relate to you from the news of what has preceded. And We have certainly given you from Us a message [i.e., the Qur’ān].

        

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Whoever turns away from it - then indeed, he will bear on the Day of Resurrection a burden [i.e., great sin],