the people of the book ask you to bring down for them a book from heaven. of moses they demanded a greater thing than that. they said to him show us god face to face. a thunderbolt struck them for their wickedness. after that they took to worshipping the calf after all evidence of the truth had come to them! yet we pardoned even that and bestowed on moses clear authority.
يسألك أهل الكتاب أن تنزل عليهم كتابا من السماء فقد سألوا موسى أكبر من ذلك فقالوا أرنا الله جهرة فأخذتهم الصاعقة بظلمهم ثم اتخذوا العجل من بعد ما جاءتهم البينات فعفونا عن ذلك وآتينا موسى سلطانا مبينا