#272 Podcast Al Qur'an Juz 16 QS 20 Taha 90-104

[Quran Chapter 20] 90. Aaron had said to them before, "O my people, you are being tested by this. And your Lord is the Merciful, so follow me, and obey my command." 91. They said, "We will not give up our devotion to it, until Moses returns to us." 92. He said, "O Aaron, what prevented you, when you saw them going astray. 93. From following me? Did you disobey my command?" 94. He said, "Son of my mother, do not seize me by my beard or my head. I feared you would say, `You have caused division among the Children of Israel, and did not regard my word.'" 95. He said, "What do you have to say, O Samarian?" 96. He said, "I saw what they did not see, so I grasped a handful from the Messenger's traces, and I flung it away. Thus my soul prompted me." 97. He said, "Begone! Your lot in this life is to say, 'No contact.' And you have an appointment that you will not miss. Now look at your god that you remained devoted to—we will burn it up, and then blow it away into the sea, as powder." 98. Surely your god is Allah, the One besides whom there is no other god. He comprehends everything in knowledge. 99. Thus We narrate to you reports of times gone by; and We have given you a message from Our Presence. 100. Whoever turns away from it will carry on the Day of Resurrection a burden. 101. Abiding therein forever. And wretched is their burden on the Day of Resurrection. 102. On the Day when the Trumpet is blown—We will gather the sinners on that Day, blue. 103. Murmuring among themselves: "You have lingered only for ten." 104. We are fully aware of what they say, when the most exemplary of them in conduct will say, "You have lingered only a day."