The Women
4. An-Nisā’
النساء

Al Nisā’ (The Women)

ٱلنِّسَاء

4:153
4:153

yasʾaluka ʾahlu l-kitābi ʾan tunazzila ʿalayhim kitāban mina s-samāʾi fa-qad saʾalū mūsā ʾakbara min dhālika fa-qālū ʾarinā llāha jahratan fa-ʾakhadhathumu ṣ-ṣāʿiqatu bi-ẓulmihim thumma ttakhadhū l-ʿijla min baʿdi jāʾathumu l-bayyinātu fa-ʿafawnā ʿan dhālika wa-ʾātaynā mūsā sulṭānan mubīnan

The People of the Book ask you to bring down for them a Book from the sky. Certainly they asked Moses for [something] greater than that, for they said, ‘Show us Allah visibly,’ whereat a thunderbolt seized them for their wrongdoing. Then they took up the Calf [for worship], after all the manifest proofs that had come to them. Yet We excused that, and We gave Moses a manifest authority.

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