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Surah Al-A'raaf (7) — Ayah 152
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ ٱلْعِجْلَ سَيَنَالُهُمْ غَضَبٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ وَذِلَّةٌ فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۚ وَكَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِى ٱلْمُفْتَرِينَ ﴿152﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Certainly, those who took the calf (for worship), wrath from their Lord and humiliation will come upon them in the life of this world. Thus do We recompense those who invent lies.
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
those who
ٱتَّخَذُوا۟
ittakhadhū
took
ٱلْعِجْلَ
l-ʿij'la
the calf
سَيَنَالُهُمْ
sayanāluhum
will reach them
غَضَبٌۭ
ghaḍabun
wrath
مِّن
min
from
رَّبِّهِمْ
rabbihim
their Lord
وَذِلَّةٌۭ
wadhillatun
and humiliation
فِى
fī
in
ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ
l-ḥayati
the life
ٱلدُّنْيَا ۚ
l-dun'yā
(of) the world
وَكَذَٰلِكَ
wakadhālika
And thus
نَجْزِى
najzī
We recompense
ٱلْمُفْتَرِينَ
l-muf'tarīna
the ones who invent (falsehood)
Tafsir Taiseer ul-Quran — Maulana Abdul Rahman Kilani
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152. (Allah replied that) those who took the calf as a god—surely, wrath from their Lord [149] will overtake them, and they will be disgraced in the life of this world. This is how We recompense those who fabricate lies (against Allah).
[149]
The Mass Killing of the Calf-Worshippers:
The wrath of Allah mentioned here is the same as referred to in Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 54, that such calf-worshipping polytheists should be killed so that the rest of society may be purified from shirk. Regarding the incident of calf-worship, the Children of Israel were divided into three groups: one group consisted of those who worshipped the calf; the second group did not worship it themselves but did not stop those who did; and the third group neither worshipped the calf nor ceased to forbid those who did. When these people realized the gravity of their great sin and requested repentance from Allah, He set the condition for the acceptance of their repentance that all the calf-worshipping polytheists should be killed, and those who would carry out the killing should be the ones who themselves had abstained from shirk and had also forbidden the polytheists from it.
[149]
The Mass Killing of the Calf-Worshippers:
The wrath of Allah mentioned here is the same as referred to in Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 54, that such calf-worshipping polytheists should be killed so that the rest of society may be purified from shirk. Regarding the incident of calf-worship, the Children of Israel were divided into three groups: one group consisted of those who worshipped the calf; the second group did not worship it themselves but did not stop those who did; and the third group neither worshipped the calf nor ceased to forbid those who did. When these people realized the gravity of their great sin and requested repentance from Allah, He set the condition for the acceptance of their repentance that all the calf-worshipping polytheists should be killed, and those who would carry out the killing should be the ones who themselves had abstained from shirk and had also forbidden the polytheists from it.
