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*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 51:*
وَإِذْ وَاعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ثُمَّ اتَّخَذْتُمُ الْعِجْلَ مِن بَعْدِهِ وَأَنتُمْ ظَالِمُونَ
And (remember) when We appointed for Musa (Moses) forty nights, and (in his absence) you took the calf (for worship), and you were Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers, etc.).
*COMMENTARY*
This was after the Ten Commandments and the Law and Ordinances had been given on Mount Sinai: Moses was asked up into the Mount, and he was there forty days and forty nights: The Book of Exodus, Old Testament, Chapter xxiv, verse 18. But the people got impatient of the delay, made a calf of melted gold, and offered worship and sacrifice to it: The Book of Exodus, Old Testament, Chapter xxxii, verse 1-8.
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*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 52:*
ثُمَّ عَفَوْنَا عَنكُم مِّن بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ
Then after that We forgave you so that you might be grateful.
*COMMENTARY*
Moses prayed for his people, and Allāh forgave them. This is the language of the Qur-ān. The Old Testament version is rougher: "The Lord repented of the evil which He thought to do unto His people": The book of Exodus, Old Testament, Chapter xxxii, verse 14. The Muslim position had always been that the Jewish (and Christian) scriptures as they stand cannot be traced direct to Moses or Jesus, but are later compilations. Modern scholarship and Higher Criticism has left no doubt on the subject. But the stories in these traditional books may be used in an appeal to those who use them: only they should be spiritualised, as they are here, and especially in verse 54 (Sūra Al-Baqarah) below.
*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 51:*
وَإِذْ وَاعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ثُمَّ اتَّخَذْتُمُ الْعِجْلَ مِن بَعْدِهِ وَأَنتُمْ ظَالِمُونَ
And (remember) when We appointed for Musa (Moses) forty nights, and (in his absence) you took the calf (for worship), and you were Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers, etc.).
*COMMENTARY*
This was after the Ten Commandments and the Law and Ordinances had been given on Mount Sinai: Moses was asked up into the Mount, and he was there forty days and forty nights: The Book of Exodus, Old Testament, Chapter xxiv, verse 18. But the people got impatient of the delay, made a calf of melted gold, and offered worship and sacrifice to it: The Book of Exodus, Old Testament, Chapter xxxii, verse 1-8.
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*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 52:*
ثُمَّ عَفَوْنَا عَنكُم مِّن بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ
Then after that We forgave you so that you might be grateful.
*COMMENTARY*
Moses prayed for his people, and Allāh forgave them. This is the language of the Qur-ān. The Old Testament version is rougher: "The Lord repented of the evil which He thought to do unto His people": The book of Exodus, Old Testament, Chapter xxxii, verse 14. The Muslim position had always been that the Jewish (and Christian) scriptures as they stand cannot be traced direct to Moses or Jesus, but are later compilations. Modern scholarship and Higher Criticism has left no doubt on the subject. But the stories in these traditional books may be used in an appeal to those who use them: only they should be spiritualised, as they are here, and especially in verse 54 (Sūra Al-Baqarah) below.
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