The Women
4. An-Nisā’
النساء
Page #102
4:153
يَسْأَلُكَ
أَهْلُ
الْكِتَابِ
أَن
تُنَزِّلَ
عَلَيْهِمْ
كِتَابًا
مِّنَ
السَّمَاءِ
فَقَدْ
سَأَلُوا
مُوسَى
أَكْبَرَ
مِن
ذَلِكَ
فَقَالُوا
أَرِنَا
اللَّهَ
جَهْرَةً
فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ
الصَّاعِقَةُ
بِظُلْمِهِمْ
ثُمَّ
اتَّخَذُوا
الْعِجْلَ
مِن
بَعْدِ
مَا
جَاءَتْهُمُ
الْبَيِّنَاتُ
فَعَفَوْنَا
عَن
ذَلِكَ
وَآتَيْنَا
مُوسَى
سُلْطَانًا
مُّبِينًا
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 mā 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.
— Ali Quli Qarai
The people of the Book ask thee to cause a book to descend to them from heaven: Indeed they asked Moses for an even greater (miracle), for they said: "Show us Allah in public," but they were dazed for their presumption, with thunder and lightning. Yet they worshipped the calf even after clear signs had come to them; even so we forgave them; and gave Moses manifest proofs of authority.
