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السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاتة

بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِٱلرَّحِيمِ2.

19. When the Children of Israel asked Musa (AS) to see his Lord, what happened to them?

Inspite of receiving best favours, which no other soceity received, the Children of Israel had been always mistrusting Musa (AS). When Musa (AS) returned from meeting with his Lord and carrying the Tablets on which He wrote the Taurah, he found that they had been worshipping the golden calf in his absence.

Abdur-Rahman bin Zayd bin Aslam described this event. Musa felt very much, commanded them to kill themselves and they obeyed. He asked them to repent to Allah and Allahuthala forgave them.

Musa (AS) said to them, `These Tablets have Allah's Book, containing what He commanded you and what He forbade for you.' They said, `Should we believe this statement because you said it. By Allah, we will not believe until we see Allah in the open, until He shows us Himself and says: "This is My Book, therefore, adhere to it. Why does He not talk to us as He talked to you, O, Musa"'

So Musa (AS) selected among them best seventy men. When they asked to see Allah directly, they have been seized with lightning. As-Suddi commented, “They died with a bolt of lightning,” Musa (AS) feared that the Children of Israel would suspect him of having taken the men to a solitary place and got them slaughtered.

He stood up crying and supplicating to Allah, `O Lord! What should I say to the Children of Israel when I go back to them after ‘You’ destroyed the best of them. If it had been Your will, ‘You’ could have destroyed them and me before; would ‘You’ destroy us for the deeds of the foolish ones among us”

Allah accepted his prayer, and gave those, a new life. Allah revealed to Musa (AS) that these seventy men were among those who worshipped the calf. Afterwards, Allah brought them back to life one man at a time, while the rest of them were watching how Allah was bringing them back to life.

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