28 verses Starts at Taha 83 Ends at Taha 110

Rub’ al-Hizb 127 of 240

Rub’ al-Hizb 127 ربع ١٢٧

A quarter of a hizb: 240 short portions.

From: Taha 83
To: Taha 110
Verses: 28

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

20:83

[God said], ‘Moses, what has made you come ahead of your people in such haste?’

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20:84

and he said, ‘They are following in my footsteps. I rushed to You, Lord, to please You,’

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20:85

but God said, ‘We have tested your people in your absence: the Samiri has led them astray.’

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20:86

Moses returned to his people, angry and aggrieved. He said, ‘My people, did your Lord not make you a gracious promise? Was my absence too long for you? Did you want anger to fall on you from your Lord and so broke your word to me?’

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20:87

They said, ‘We did not break our word to you deliberately. We were burdened with the weight of people’s jewellery, so we threw it [into the fire], and the Samiri did the same,’

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20:88

but he [used the molten jewellery to] produce an image of a calf which made a lowing sound, and they said, ‘This is your god and Moses’ god, but he has forgotten.’

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20:89

Did they not see that [the calf] gave them no answer, that it had no power to harm or benefit them?

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20:90

Aaron did say to them, ‘My people, this calf is a test for you. Your true Lord is the Lord of Mercy, so follow me and obey my orders,’

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20:91

but they replied, ‘We shall not give up our devotion to it until Moses returns to us.’

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20:92

Moses said, ‘When you realized they had gone astray, what prevented you, Aaron,

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20:93

from coming after me? How could you disobey my orders?’

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20:94

He said, ‘Son of my mother- let go of my beard and my hair!- I was afraid you would say, “You have caused division among the children of Israel and have not heeded what I said.”’

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20:95

Moses said, ‘And what was the matter with you, Samiri?’

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20:96

He replied, ‘I saw something they did not; I took in some of the teachings of the Messenger but tossed them aside: my soul prompted me to do what I did.’

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20:97

Moses said, ‘Get away from here! Your lot in this life is to say, “Do not touch me,” but you have an appointment from which there is no escape. Look at your god which you have kept on worshipping- we shall grind it down and scatter it into the sea.

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20:98

[People], your true god is the One God- there is no god but Him- whose knowledge embraces everything.’

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20:99

In this way We relate to you [Prophet] stories of what happened before. We have given you a Quran from Us.

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20:100

Whoever turns away from it will bear on the Day of Resurrection a heavy burden

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20:101

and will remain under it. What a terrible burden to carry on that Day!

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20:102

When the trumpet is sounded and We gather the sinful, sightless,

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20:103

they will murmur to one another, ‘You stayed only ten days [on earth]’-

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20:104

We know best what they say- but the more perceptive of them will say, ‘Your stay [on earth] was only a single day.’

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20:105

They ask you [Prophet] about the mountains: say, ‘[On that Day] my Lord will blast them into dust

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20:106

and leave a flat plain,

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20:107

with no peak or trough to be seen.

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20:108

On that Day, people will follow the summoner from whom there is no escape; every voice will be hushed for the Lord of Mercy; only whispers will be heard.

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20:109

On that Day, intercession will be useless except from those to whom the Lord of Mercy has granted permission and whose words He approves-

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20:110

He knows what is before and behind them, though they do not comprehend Him-

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