seekeroftruth
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Quran 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 God, 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.”
This is the commentary.
From this it is clear that not only had Aaron no part in making the calf, but he even enjoined his people to give up its worship. The Qur’ån here contradicts the Bible.
The stories which many commentators have related under this verse are all baseless, and even Råzß has discredited them. The ras∂l, or messenger, is evidently Moses himself; his athar (“footprints”) signifies his sunnah, i.e., his practices and sayings, a significance to which all authorities agree, the word being well-known in Muslim religious literature, and the qab˙at is taking or following those practices in part, because qab˙at denotes a single act of taking, or only a handful, i.e., a small part of it. The man who made the calf thus asserts that he had a clearer perception of things than the Israelites, that he accepted the teachings of Moses only partially, and confesses that he now threw off even that part and made a calf for worship.
This shows that the ashes of the calf were thrown into the sea, and the story of the Israelites being made to drink of water mixed with the ashes of the calf is not, therefore, credited by the Holy Qur’ån. The Bible is again contradicted here; see Exod. 32:20 and Deut. 9:21. The punishment given to the Såmirß is that of an outcast in society, who is prohibited from having any intercourse or relations with the Israelite people.
The word zurq means blue-eyed. According to Bd, blue being the colour of the eyes of the R∂m (i.e., the Greeks or the Romans), who were most hated by the Arabs, that colour was regarded by the Arabs as the worst colour for the eye. The word may also signify blind, in reference to the guilty being raised up blind in the Resurrection.
The object of ‘ashr, ten, is omitted; but, as elsewhere the lovers of the world are described as loving to be granted a life of a thousand years, what is apparently indicated here is that they will have enjoyed ten centuries of great prosperity. Or, if the word days is understood, the ten days of the life of a nation would also mean ten centuries.
Short and sweet.... today's reading is short and sweet. Aaron wasn't the guilty party according to the Quran. He actually tried to talk them out of it. There were over two million refugees in camp with Aaron.... that's a big bored angry mob. They were drug into the desert and now Moses "just took off". It's no wonder they brewed up a golden calf whistle.
It makes sense that Aaron doesn't get credit for trying to subdue the mob making that big calf whistle. Moses is the topic in the Bible. Aaron was only his mouthpiece. Aaron wasn't responsible for the construction of the big calf whistle in either book.
Burning that big calf whistle into dust.... and then scattering it on the water.... would make the whistle dust spread. Harping on something will also make it spread. If it's in the water.... even if it's tasteless, odorless, and crystal clear as arsenic..... it is still there and it will still poison a body.
I'm out in the Sonoran Desert now. There is a horrible draught going on. We cannot drink the water from the tap. The other morning I was taking a shower and some of the water got in my mouth.... it was downright salty! If it's in the water.... it can still poison the body.
If Scripture gets twisted by the dust of a big calf whistle.... it will poison the Message.
That poisonous concoction is what has led us to this day.... when preachers, priests, and even rabbis are being found guilty of all kinds of horrible deeds. It's the dust of the big calf whistle that gave them the idea they could put God in a box and teach whatever suits their fancy or the fancy of the rich benefactor.
Having blue eyes.... well that just makes me more of a Becky... right? My eyes are blue.
This is about the dust of the big calf whistle.
