t observe [or await] my word.'"
(95) (95) [Moses] said, "And what is your case, O Sāmirī?"
(96) (96) He said, "I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful [of dust] from the track of the messenger and threw it, and thus did my soul entice me."
- i.e., a hoof-print in the sand left by the angel Gabriel's horse. - Into the fire upon the melted ornaments in order to form the calf.
(97) (97) [Moses] said, "Then go. And indeed, it is [decreed] for you in [this] life to say, 'No contact.' And indeed, you have an appointment [in the Hereafter] you will not fail to keep. And look at your 'god' to which you remained devoted. We will surely burn it and blow it [i.e., its ashes] into the sea with a blast.
- i.e., Do not touch me. As chastisement, he was to be completely shunned by all people.
(98) (98) Your god is only Allāh, except for whom there is no deity. He has encompassed all things in knowledge."
(99) (99) Thus, [O Muḥammad], We relate to you from the news of what has preceded. And We have certainly given you from Us a message [i.e., the Qur’ān].
(100) (100) Whoever turns away from it - then indeed, he will bear on the Day of Resurrection a burden [i.e., great sin],
(101) (101) [Abiding] eternally therein, and evil it is for them on the Day of Resurrection as a load -
- i.e., in the state of sin.
(102) (102) The Day the Horn will be blown. And We will gather the criminals, that Day, blue-eyed.
- From terror, or blinded completely.
(103) (103) They will murmur among themselves, "You remained not but ten [days in the world]."
(104) (104) We are most knowing of what they say when the best of them in manner [i.e., wisdom or speech] will say, "You remained not but one day."
(105) (105) And they ask you about the mountains, so say, "My Lord will blow them away with a blast.
- Once they have been reduced to dust.
(106) (106) And He will leave it [i.e., the earth] a level plain;
(107) (107) You will not see therein a depression or an elevation."
(108) (108) That Day, they [i.e., everyone] will follow [the call of] the Caller [with] no deviation therefrom, and [all] voices will be stilled before the Most Merciful, so you will not hear except a whisper [of footsteps].
- To the gathering for judgement.
(109) (109) That Day, no intercession will benefit except [that of] one to whom the Most Merciful has given permission and has accepted his word.
(110) (110) He [i.e., Allāh] knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, but they do not encompass it [i.e., what He knows] in knowledge.
- See footnote to 2:255.
(111) (111) And [all] faces will be humbled before the Ever-Living, the Self-Sustaining. And he will have failed who carries injustice.
- See footnotes to 2:255. - i.e., sin or wrongdoing towards Allāh or any of His creation.
(112) (112) But he who does of righteous deeds while he is a believer - he will neither fear injustice nor deprivation.
(113) (113) And thus We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur’ān and have diversified therein the warnings that perhaps they will avoid [sin] or it would cause them remembrance.
- i.e., revealed in the Arabic language.
(114) (114) So high [above all] is Allāh, the Sovereign, the Truth. And, [O Muḥammad], do not hasten with [recitation of] the Qur’ān before its revelation is completed to you, and say, "My Lord, increase me in knowledge."
- And owner of everything in existence. - Or "the True Reality," i.e., the real and permanent existence upon which all other existence depends.
(115) (115) And We had already taken a promise from Adam before, but he forgot; and We found not in him determination.
- To resist temptation.
(116) (116) And [mention] when We said to the angels, "Prostrate to Adam," and they prostrated, except Iblees; he refused.
- See footnote to 2:34.
(117) (117) So We said, "O Adam, indeed this is an enemy to you and to your wife. Then let him not remove you from Paradise so you would suffer.
(118) (118) Indeed, it is [promised] for you not to be hungry therein or be unclothed.
(119) (119) And indeed, you will not be thirsty therein or be hot from the sun."
