the people of the book ask you to bring down for them a book from the sky. certainly they asked moses for greater than that for they said show us allah visibly whereat a thunderbolt seized them for their wrongdoing. then they took up the calf after all the manifest proofs that had come to them. yet we excused that and we gave moses a manifest 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