قَالَ
فَإِنَّا
قَدۡ
فَتَنَّا
قَوۡمَكَ
مِنۢ
بَعۡدِكَ
وَأَضَلَّهُمُ
ٱلسَّامِرِيُّ
٨٥

Allah responded, “We have indeed tested your people in your absence, and the Sâmiri1 has led them astray.”
فَرَجَعَ
مُوسَىٰٓ
إِلَىٰ
قَوۡمِهِۦ
غَضۡبَٰنَ
أَسِفٗاۚ
قَالَ
يَٰقَوۡمِ
أَلَمۡ
يَعِدۡكُمۡ
رَبُّكُمۡ
وَعۡدًا
حَسَنًاۚ
أَفَطَالَ
عَلَيۡكُمُ
ٱلۡعَهۡدُ
أَمۡ
أَرَدتُّمۡ
أَن
يَحِلَّ
عَلَيۡكُمۡ
غَضَبٞ
مِّن
رَّبِّكُمۡ
فَأَخۡلَفۡتُم
مَّوۡعِدِي
٨٦
So Moses returned to his people, furious and sorrowful. He said, “O my people! Had your Lord not made you a good promise?1 Has my absence been too long for you? Or have you wished for wrath from your Lord to befall you, so you broke your promise to me?”2 
قَالُواْ
مَآ
أَخۡلَفۡنَا
مَوۡعِدَكَ
بِمَلۡكِنَا
وَلَٰكِنَّا
حُمِّلۡنَآ
أَوۡزَارٗا
مِّن
زِينَةِ
ٱلۡقَوۡمِ
فَقَذَفۡنَٰهَا
فَكَذَٰلِكَ
أَلۡقَى
ٱلسَّامِرِيُّ
٨٧
They argued, “We did not break our promise to you of our own free will, but we were made to carry the burden of the people’s ˹golden˺ jewellery,1 then we threw it ˹into the fire˺, and so did the Sâmiri.”
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