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2:51
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Deep study · دِرَاسَة
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Verse · Āyah
2:51
وَإِذْ وَٰعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰٓ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةًۭ ثُمَّ ٱتَّخَذْتُمُ ٱلْعِجْلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ وَأَنتُمْ ظَـٰلِمُونَ ٥١
And when We did appoint for Moses forty nights (of solitude), and then ye chose the calf, when he had gone from you, and were wrong-doers.
And [recall] when We made an appointment with Moses for forty nights. Then you took [for worship] the calf after him, while you were wrongdoers.
Call to mind that when We invited Moses for a fixed term of forty nights and days, you took to calf worship in his absence. Though you had committed a wicked transgression,
يَقُولُ تَعَالَى: وَاذْكُرُوا نِعْمَتِي عَلَيْكُمْ فِي عَفْوِي عَنْكُمْ، لَمَّا عَبَدْتُمُ الْعِجْلَ بَعْدَ ذَهَابِ مُوسَى لِمِيقَاتِ رَبِّهِ، عِنْدَ انْقِضَاءِ أمَد الْمُوَاعَدَةِ، وَكَانَتْ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا، وَهِيَ الْمَذْكُورَةُ فِي الْأَعْرَافِ، فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: ﴿وَوَاعَدْنَا مُوسَى ثَلاثِينَ لَيْلَةً وَأَتْمَمْنَاهَا بِعَشْرٍ﴾ [الْأَعْرَافِ: ١٤٢] قِيلَ: إِنَّهَا ذُو الْقِعْدَةِ بِكَمَالِهِ وَعَشْرٌ مِنْ ذِي الْحِجَّةِ، وَكَانَ ذَلِكَ بَعْدَ خَلَاصِهِمْ مِنْ قَوْمِ فِرْعَوْنَ وَإِنْجَائِهِمْ من البحر.
About this surah
Madani · order 87
Summary
Al-Baqarah (the Cow) has been so named from the story of the Cow occurring in this Surah (67-73). It has not, however, been used as a title to indicate the subject of the Surah. It will, therefore, be as wrong to translate the name Al-Baqarah into "The Cow" or "The Heifer" as to translate any English name, say Mr. Baker, Mr. Rice, Mr. Wolf etc., into their equivalents in other languages or vice versa, because this would imply that the Surah dealt with the subject of "The Cow". Many more Surahs of the Quran have been named in the same way because no comprehensive words exist in Arabic (in spite of its richness) to denote the wide scope of the subject discussed in them. As a matter of fact all human languages suffer from the same limitation.
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