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Sura 20
Aya 88
88
فَأَخرَجَ لَهُم عِجلًا جَسَدًا لَهُ خُوارٌ فَقالوا هٰذا إِلٰهُكُم وَإِلٰهُ موسىٰ فَنَسِيَ

Muhammad Asad

But then, [so they told Moses,1 the Samaritan] had produced for them [out of the molten gold] the effigy of a calf, which made a lowing sound ;2 and thereupon they said [to one another], "This is your deity, and the deity of Moses - but he has forgotten [his past]!"3
  • This interpolation is necessary in view of the change from the direct speech in the preceding verse to the indirect in this one and in the sequence.
  • See surah 7, note 113.
  • An allusion to the fact that Moses had been brought up - obviously as an Egyptian - at Pharaoh's court.