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020.076 Gardens of Eternity, beneath which flow rivers: they will dwell therein for aye: such is the reward of those
who purify themselves (from evil).
020.077 We sent an inspiration to Moses: "Travel by night with My servants, and strike a dry path for them through
the sea, without fear of being overtaken (by Pharaoh) and without (any other) fear."
020.078 Then Pharaoh pursued them with his forces, but the waters completely overwhelmed them and covered them
up.
020.079 Pharaoh led his people astray instead of leading them aright.
020.080 O ye Children of Israel! We delivered you from your enemy, and We made a Covenant with you on the right
side of Mount (Sinai), and We sent down to you Manna and quails:
020.081 (Saying): "Eat of the good things We have provided for your sustenance, but commit no excess therein, lest
My Wrath should justly descend on you: and those on whom descends My Wrath do perish indeed!
020.082 "But, without doubt, I am (also) He that forgives again and again, to those who repent, believe, and do right,
who,- in fine, are ready to receive true guidance."
020.083 (When Moses was up on the Mount, God said:) "What made thee hasten in advance of thy people, O Moses?"
020.084 He replied: "Behold, they are close on my footsteps: I hastened to thee, O my Lord, to please thee."
020.085 (God) said: "We have tested thy people in thy absence: the Samiri has led them astray."
020.086 So Moses returned to his people in a state of indignation and sorrow. He said: "O my people! did not your
Lord make a handsome promise to you? Did then the promise seem to you long (in coming)? Or did ye desire that
Wrath should descend from your Lord on you, and so ye broke your promise to me?"
020.087 They said: "We broke not the promise to thee, as far as lay in our power: but we were made to carry the weight
of the ornaments of the (whole) people, and we threw them (into the fire), and that was what the Samiri suggested.
020.088 "Then he brought out (of the fire) before the (people) the image of a calf: It seemed to low: so they said: This
is your god, and the god of Moses, but (Moses) has forgotten!"
020.089 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?
020.090 Aaron had already, before this said to them: "O my people! ye are being tested in this: for verily your Lord
is (God) Most Gracious; so follow me and obey my command."
020.091 They had said: "We will not abandon this cult, but we will devote ourselves to it until Moses returns to us."
020.092 (Moses) said: "O Aaron! what kept thee back, when thou sawest them going wrong,
020.093 "From following me? Didst thou then disobey my order?"
020.094 (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 respect my word!'"
020.095 (Moses) said: "What then is thy case, O Samiri?"
020.096 He replied: "I saw what they saw not: so I took a handful (of dust) from the footprint of the Apostle, and threw
it (into the calf): thus did my soul suggest to me."
020.097 (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 (melt) it in a blazing fire and scatter it broadcast in the sea!"
020.098 But the god of you all is the One God: there is no god but He: all things He comprehends in His knowledge.
020.099 Thus do We relate to thee some stories of what happened before: for We have sent thee a Message from Our
own Presence.
020.100 If any do turn away therefrom, verily they will bear a burden on the Day of judgment;
020.101 They will abide in this (state): and grievous will the burden be to them on that Day,-
020.102 The Day when the Trumpet will be sounded: that Day, We shall gather the sinful, blear-eyed (with terror).
020.103 In whispers will they consult each other: "Yet tarried not longer than ten (Days);
020.104 We know best what they will say, when their leader most eminent in conduct will say: "Ye tarried not longer
than a day!"
020.105 They ask thee concerning the Mountains: say, "My Lord will uproot them and scatter them as dust;
020.106 "He will leave them as plains smooth and level;