قَالَ

بَصُرۡتُ

بِمَا

لَمۡ

يَبۡصُرُواْ

بِهِۦ

فَقَبَضۡتُ

قَبۡضَةٗ

مِّنۡ

أَثَرِ

ٱلرَّسُولِ

فَنَبَذۡتُهَا

وَكَذَٰلِكَ

سَوَّلَتۡ

لِي

نَفۡسِي

٩٦

He said, “I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful ˹of dust˺ from the hoof-prints of ˹the horse of˺ the messenger-angel ˹Gabriel˺ then cast it ˹on the moulded calf˺. This is what my lower-self tempted me into.”¹