89* Could they not see that it could not return them a word (for answer), and that it had no power either to harm them or to do them good?  
| |90* Aaron had already, before this said to them: "O my people! ye are being tested in this: for verily your Lord is (Allah) Most Gracious; so follow me and obey my command."  
| |91* They had said: "We will not cease to worship it, we will devote ourselves to it until Moses returns to us."  
| |92* (Moses) said: "O Aaron! What kept thee back, when thou sawest them going wrong,  
| |93* "From following me? Didst thou then disobey my order?"  
| |94* (Aaron) replied: "O son of my mother! Seize (me) not by my beard nor by (the hair of) my head! Truly I feared lest thou shouldst say, 'Thou has caused a division among the Children of Israel, and thou didst not observe my word!' "  
| |95* (Moses) said: "What then is thy case, O Smir?"  
| |96* He replied: "I saw what they saw not: so I took a handful (of dust) from the footprint of the Messenger, and threw it (into the calf): thus did my soul suggest to me."  
| |97* (Moses) said: "Get thee gone! but thy (punishment) in this life will be that thou wilt say, 'Touch me not'; and moreover (for a future penalty) thou hast a promise that will not fail. Now look at thy god, of whom thou hast become a devoted worshipper: we will certainly burn it in a blazing fire and scatter it broadcast in the sea!"  
| |98* But the God of you all is Allah. there is no god but He: all things He comprehends in His knowledge.  
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