The Heights
7. Al-A'rāf
الأعراف

Al A‘rāf (The Heights)

ٱلْأَعْرَاف

7:138
7:138

wa-jāwaznā bi-banī ʾisrāʾīla l-baḥra fa-ʾataw ʿalā qawmin yaʿkufūna ʿalā ʾaṣnāmin lahum qālū yā-mūsā jʿal lanā ʾilāhan ka-mā lahum ʾālihatun qāla ʾinnakum qawmun tajhalūna

We carried the Children of Israel across the sea, whereat they came upon a people cleaving to certain idols that they had. They said, ‘O Moses, make for us a god like the gods that they have.’ He said, ‘You are indeed an ignorant lot.

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