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84. He replied: "Behold, they are close on my footsteps: I hastened to thee, O my Lord, to
please thee."
85. Qala fa-inna qad fatanna qawmaka min baAAdika waadallahumu a
l
ssamiriy
yu
85. ((Allah)) said: "We have tested thy people in thy absence: the Samiri has led them
astray."
86. FarajaAAa moosa ila qawmihi ghadbana asifan qala ya qawmi alam yaAAidkum
rabbukum waAAdan hasanan afatala AAalaykumu alAAahdu am aradtum an yahilla
AAalaykum ghadabun min rabbikum faakhlaftum mawAAidee
86. So Moses returned to his people in a state of indignation and sorrow. He said: "O my
people! did not your Lord make a handsome promise to you? Did then the promise seem
to you long (in coming)? Or did ye desire that Wrath should descend from your Lord on
you, and so ye broke your promise to me?"
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