95 Preface قالَ فَما خَطبُكَ يا سامِرِيُّYusuf Ali(Moses) said: “What then is thy case, O Samiri?”1Moses now turns to the Samiri, and the Samiri’s reply in the next verse sums up his character in a few wonderful strokes of character-painting. The lesson of the whole of this episode is the fall of a human soul that nominally comes to God’s Truth in a humble position but makes mischief when and as it finds occasion. It is no less dangerous and culpable than the arrogant soul, typified by pharaoh, which gets into high places and makes its leadership the cause of ruin of a whole nation.