92- AND MOSES CAME TO YOU WITH THE CLEAR SIGNS, BUT YOU WORSHIPPED THE CALF IN HIS ABSENCE, AND YOU WERE WRONG DOERS.

93- AND REMEMBER WHEN WE TOOK YOUR COVENANT AND RAISE THE MOUNTAIN ABOVE YOU SAYING: “TAKE WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN YOU EARNESTLY, AND LISTEN”, THEY SAID: “WE HEAR AND WE DISOBEY”.  THEY TOOK THE CALF INTO THEIR OWN HEARTS BECAUSE OF THEIR DISBELIEVE.  SAY: “EVIL IS WHAT YOUR BELIEF COMMANDS YOU TO DO IF YOU ARE REALLY BELIEVERS”.

Still answering the Jews, who said that their hearts are sealed because of what they received.  Allah the Highest reminds them and us of how they disbelieved having received and seen all the miracles through Moses, peace upon him, immediately after he turned his back and went to his appointment with Allah for 40 days.

Their disbelieve must have been immediate, as it took them only 40 days to collect the gold from among themselves, design the calf, make the cast, and cast the golden calf and start to worship it.  It was such an accomplishment, evil as it was, in such short time. 

Then, the reminder of the time when they would not give their covenant to Allah until the mountain was raised to be dropped over them.  They gave their covenant in words, but disobeyed in deeds and actions.  This is because they were blinded by their disbelief and the love of the golden calf in their hearts. 

They are of those Allah the Highest said about “THERE IS A DISEASE IN THEIR HEARTS AND ALLAH INCREASED THEIR DISEASE, AND A PAINFUL PENALTY IS THEIRS BECAUSE OF THEIR LYING”.  (S: 2 A: 10)

Indeed the excessive love of any earthly thing blinds and deafens people.  It stops us from seeing what should be seen and hearing what would be heard otherwise.  Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “Your love of a thing on this Earth blinds and deafens you”.  (A: 5; 194 6; 450 & D: Tefseer Sorah 18, 3)

94- SAY: “IF THE HEREAFTER WITH ALLAH IS YOURS TO THE EXCLUSION OF OTHERS, THEN WISH DEATH FOR YOURSELVES IF YOU ARE TRUTHFUL”.

95- BUT THEY WILL NEVER WISH IT BECAUSE OF WHAT THEIR HANDS SENT BEFORE THEM TO THE HEREAFTER OF DEEDS, AND ALLAH KNOWS THE EVIL DOERS WELL.

96- AND YOU WILL FIND THEM THE KEENEST OF ALL FOR THIS LIFE, EVEN MORE THAN THE IDOLATORS.  EACH OF THEM WISHES HIMSELF TO LIVE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, AND IT WILL NOT MOVE HIM AWAY FROM THE PUNISHMENT TO LAST LONG, AND ALLAH SEES ALL THEY DO.

The Jews of the Medina had a dispute with Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him.  They claimed that the Hereafter would be theirs only, not to be shared by others.  It is only for the Jews.  Allah’s command came to Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, to ask them to gather each other and their families and children along with the Muslims and their families and children, and then all pray to Allah the Highest that the liars should die.  They did not turn up.

A similar thing happened with a party of the Christians of Yemen who came to Medina to meet Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him.  Allah the Highest then said: “IF THEY ARGUE WITH YOU AFTER THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH CAME TO YOU, THEN SAY:’LET US GATHER OUR CHILDREN AND YOUR CHILDREN, OUR WOMEN AND YOUR WOMEN, AND OURSELVES AND YOURSELVES, THEN PRAY TO ALLAH TO INVOKE ALLAH’S CURSE ON THE LIARS”.   (S: 3 A: 61)

They also declined and did not turn up.

This is because Allah the Highest knows what is inside them and what they hide.  “ALLAH KNOWS WHAT YOU HIDE AND WHAT YOU REVEAL”.  (S: 16 A: 19)

It is normal to fear death, but the deeper one’s faith is, the less attached to life one becomes.  Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “Life is the prison of the believer and the Paradise of the disbeliever’. 

However, the Jews are attached to this life even more than the Idolaters, who do not even believe in the Hereafter.  Living even for a thousand years will make no difference to their destiny in the Hell-Fire.  Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “By Him who has the soul of Mohamed in His hand, there shall not be one of the nation who hears of me, Jew or Christian, and does not believe in what I was sent down with, who will not be of the people of the Fire”.  (M: Eman; 240)

They hate to die, for they hate to meet their Judgment and to meet Allah the Highest.  Allah the Highest also hates to meet them.  Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “He who loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him, and he who hates to meet Allah, Allah hates to meet him”.  (M: Zekr, 14-18 & T: Janaez; 67 & Da: Reqaq; 43)

This does not mean however, that the Muslims should wish for death, for the longer the believer lives, the more will be his/her good deeds.  Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, forbad us from wishing  for death saying: “None of you should ever wish death from Allah before it’s time to come, for when one of you dies, his deeds stop, and the life of the believer will only increase his goodness”.  (M: Zekr; 13 & B: Dawat; 30 & N: Janaez; 2 & D: Janaez; 9)

B: Bukhari   M: Muslim    Mal: Malek   A: Ahmed   D: Abu Dawood     

 Da: Daremy       Ma: Ibn Magah            N: Nesae          T: Termezi