As-salaam wa-alaikum, brothers and sisters.
Summary
Today’s selection is from Surah 20, Tâ-Hâ, verses 90-104. These verses continue the story of Prophets Moses & Aaron after their escape from the Pharaoh and Moses’s inquiry about idol worshiping among the Children of Israel, his decision about Samiri and his address to his people. Finally, we are reminded that the life of this world is fleeting and nothing in length compared to life in the hereafter.
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Verses
Bis-millahi ar-rahman, ar-raheem.
In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful.Aaron (Haroon) had already told them: “O my people! This is but a test for you; for verily your Lord is the Rahmãn (Allah): so follow me and do as I command you.”[90] They had replied: “We will not abandon its worship until Moses’s return.”[91] Then Moses (Musa) addressed Aaron: “ O Aaron! What prevented you from following me, when you saw them going astray?* Why did you disobey me?”[92] Aaron replied: “O son of my mother! Do not seize me by my beard nor pull the hair of my head, in fact I was afraid lest you might say: ‘You have caused a division, through civil war, among the Children of Israel and did not respect what I said, ‘to keep peace’.”[93] Then Moses addressed Samiri: “Now what you have to say about this, O Samiri?”[94] He replied: “I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful of dust from the footprint of the Messenger (Angel Gabriel) and threw it into the casting of the calf: thus did my soul prompt me.”[95] Moses cursed him: “Get out of here! Now through out your life, you will say to other people: ‘Touch me not’; and you will not escape your appointed doom. Behold this god to whom you had become a devoted worshiper: we will burn it and scatter its ashes into the sea.”[96] Then he addressed his people: “O my people! Your only God is Allah, other than Whom there is no god. His knowledge encompasses every thing.”[97] 20:[90-98]
Thus do We relate to you, O Muhammad, some information of the past events; and indeed We have sent you this Reminder (The Qur’an) from Our Own Self.[99] Those who reject it, shall bear a heavy burden on the Day of Resurrection.[100] Forever shall they bear it, and it will be indeed a very evil burden to bear on the Day of Resurrection.[101] The Day, when the Trumpet will be blown and We shall assemble all the sinners, their eyes will turn blue with terror.[102] They shall murmur among themselves: “You hardly lived ten days on earth.”[103] We know fully well what they will say; the most careful estimator among them will say: “No, you stayed no longer than a day.”[104] 20:[99-104]
Ameen.
This concludes today’s episode of the 17 Verses Podcast. I hope that this selection has helped increase your understanding of the holy Qur’an just a little bit.
Thank you and be well.