DAY 200: Taha 83-98

•  ˹Allah asked,˺ “Why have you come with such haste ahead of your people, O  Moses?” He replied, “They are close on my tracks. And I have hastened to You, my Lord, so You will be pleased.” Allah responded, “We have indeed tested your people in your absence, and the Sâmiri  has led them astray.” So Moses returned to his people, furious and sorrowful. He said, “O my people! Had your Lord not made you a good promise? Has my absence been too long for you? Or have you wished for wrath from your Lord to befall you, so you broke your promise to me?” They argued, “We did not break our promise to you of our own free will, but we were made to carry the burden of the people’s ˹golden˺ jewellery, then we threw it ˹into the fire˺, and so did the Sâmiri.”  Then he moulded for them an idol of a calf that made a lowing sound. They said, “This is your god and the god of Moses, but Moses forgot ˹where it was˺!” Did they not see that it did not respond to them, nor could it protect or benefit them? Aaron had already warned them beforehand, “O my people! You are only being tested by this, for indeed your ˹one true˺ Lord is the Most Compassionate. So follow me and obey my orders.” They replied, “We will not cease to worship it until Moses returns to us.” Moses scolded ˹his brother˺, “O Aaron! What prevented you, when you saw them going astray, from following after me? How could you disobey my orders?” Aaron pleaded, “O son of my mother! Do not seize me by my beard or ˹the hair of˺ my head. I really feared that you would say, ‘You have caused division among the Children of Israel, and did not observe my word.’” Moses then asked, “What did you think you were doing, O  Sâmiri?” He said, “I had an insight which they did not have, then grasped some knowledge from the messenger ˹Moses˺, but ˹later˺ threw it away. This is what my lower-self tempted me to do.”  Moses said, “Go away then! And for ˹the rest of your˺ life you will surely be crying, ‘Do not touch ˹me˺!’ Then you will certainly have a fate that you cannot escape. Now look at your god to which you have been devoted: we will burn it up, then scatter it in the sea completely.” ˹Then Moses addressed his people,˺ “Your only god is Allah, there is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him. He encompasses everything in ˹His˺ knowledge.”
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      Leadership Tests: Even prophets face trials with their communities.
      Dangers of Impatience: The Israelites’ haste led to shirk.
      Accountability: Al-Sāmirī’s fate warns against corrupting faith.
      Tawheed Above All: Verse 98 is the climax—Allah alone is worthy of worship.
      
      When Musa returns to find his people worshipping a golden calf , he confronts their blind idolatry  and Al-Sāmirī’s corruption , culminating in the timeless declaration: ‘Your God is only Allah’ —a warning against trading divine truth for fleeting desires.
  
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