2. The Cow (The Warning to Israel) Part 3

And Moses had certainly brought you clear proofs. Then you took the calf in worship after that, while you were wrongdoers. And recall when We took your covenant and raised over you the mount, saying, "Take what We have given you with determination and listen." They said instead, "We hear and disobey." And their hearts absorbed the worship of the calf because of their disbelief. Say, "How wretched is that which your faith enjoins upon you, if you should be believers."

Say, O Muhammad, "If the home of the Hereafter with Allah is for you alone and not the other people, then wish for death, if you should be truthful. But they will never wish for it, ever, because of what their hands have put forth. And Allah is Knowing of the wrongdoers. And you will surely find them the most greedy of people for life - even more than those who associate others with Allah. One of them wishes that he could be granted life a thousand years, but it would not remove him in the least from the coming punishment that he should be granted life. And Allah is Seeing of what they do.

Say, "Whoever is an enemy to Gabriel - it is none but he who has brought the Qur'an down upon your heart, O Muhammad, by permission of Allah, confirming that which was before it and as guidance and good tidings for the believers." Whoever is an enemy to Allah and His angels and His messengers and Gabriel and Michael - then indeed, Allah is an enemy to the disbelievers. And We have certainly revealed to you verses which are clear proofs, and no one would deny them except the defiantly disobedient.

Is it not true that every time they took a covenant a party of them threw it away? But, in fact, most of them do not believe. And when a messenger from Allah came to them confirming that which was with them, a party of those who had been given the Scripture threw the Scripture of Allah behind their backs as if they did not know what it contained.

And they followed instead what the devils had recited during the reign of Solomon. It was not Solomon who disbelieved, but the devils disbelieved, teaching people magic and that which was revealed to the two angels at Babylon, Harut and Marut. But the two angels do not teach anyone unless they say, "We are a trial, so do not disbelieve by practicing magic." And yet they learn from them that by which they cause separation between a man and his wife. But they do not harm anyone through it except by permission of Allah. And the people learn what harms them and does not benefit them. But the Children of Israel certainly knew that whoever purchased the magic would not have in the Hereafter any share. And wretched is that for which they sold themselves, if they only knew. And if they had believed and feared Allah, then the reward from Allah would have been far better, if they only knew. O you who have believed, say not to Allah 's Messenger, "Ra'ina" but say, "Unthurna" and listen. And for the disbelievers is a painful punishment. Neither those who disbelieve from the People of the Scripture nor the polytheists wish that any good should be sent down to you from your Lord. But Allah selects for His mercy whom He wills, and Allah is the possessor of great bounty.