After God saved our master Moses, peace be upon him, and his people of the children of Israel from Pharaoh, and drowned Pharaoh and his people, and they went on their way to return to Palestine, they saw a people devoted to worshiping a calf instead of God, the Almighty. And the children of Israel said to their prophet Moses, “Make for us a god like him.” He said, “You are an ignorant people. God saved you from Pharaoh, and now you are seeking a god other than God.”

Our master Moses warned them and warned them against worshiping a god other than God Almighty until the appointed day came when God promised Moses that he would speak to him and teach him. Before Moses, peace be upon him, left his people to speak to God, he ordered his brother Aaron to preach to them. Then he went to speak to God for thirty days, and then they continued. For forty days, Aaron remained with his people of the Children of Israel, until a man called “the Samaritan” came. He was pretending to believe, but his heart was not a believer. He saw the horse of angels when Pharaoh drowned, and he took a trace of it on the ground and kept it. They had found gold from Pharaoh and his people when they left. Egypt, and the Samaritan came to his people and said to them, “Where is the gold so that I can save you from it, and spoils have been forbidden to you?” In fact, he took it and melted it in the form of a calf, then threw on it the dirt that he had taken from the angel’s trace. It was said that the calf began to bellow, and he said, “Do you know what this is?” They said, No. So he brought out for them a calf with its body, bellowing, and they said, “This is your god, and the god of Moses, but he forgot.” (88) Taha [88-88] And they began to circle around him, worshiping him instead of God Almighty. Glory be to Him, and Aaron said to them, “Fear God, what are you doing?” They said, “Go, for we will not continue to devote ourselves to it until Moses returns to us

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God Almighty said to Moses, peace be upon him, “He said, ‘Indeed, We have tried your people after you, and the Samaritan has led them astray. (85)’” Taha [85-85]

Moses became angry when his Lord Almighty told him, and he began to rush to go to his people. He had received from his Lord tablets for his people to believe in. He left them out of anger for God Almighty, and returned to his people angry and sorry for what they had done.

He learned from his people and his brother Aaron what the Samaritan did after him, and he went to him and said, “What is the matter with you, Yasmari?” (95) He said, “I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful of the traces of the earth.” And so I rejected it, and thus my soul made it pleasing to me (96) Taha [94-96]

Here he confessed to himself and what he did to the Children of Israel. Moses ruled that he should not touch anyone, nor should anyone touch him, and his reward is with his Lord. Moses, peace be upon him, took this calf and melted it, then cast it into the sea. The punishment for those who believed in him and believed him was death, and God judged them to repent. To him and kill each other, then they took out their swords and those who believed in Moses fought those whom the Samaritan had tempted. Then Moses went to his Lord to bring God’s revelations and teachings to be guidance for the people.