The harsh reaction of Moses against this scene and in that...

The harsh reaction of Moses against this scene and in that moment has been stated by the Qur’ān as follows: “…And, he dropped the Tablets and seized his brother by the head, dragging him toward himself…” In fact, this reaction illustrated, on one side, the inward conditions of Moses (as) and his intensive annoyance for the idolatry and aberration of those people, and, on the other side, it was an effective means for moving the minds of the Children of Israel and making them attentive to the extraordinary obscenity of their deeds.

forgive me and my brother and admit us into Your Mercy, and You are the most merciful of the merciful ones’.” When the fire of the wrath of Moses (as) was rather quenched, he refuged to Allah (s.w.t.) and invoked Him as follows: “He (Moses) said (praying): ‘O’ Lord!

forgive me and my brother and admit us into Your Mercy, and You are the most merciful of the merciful ones’.” Moses (as) asked Allah to forgive him and his brother not for the sake that they had committed any sin, but it was a kind of humility and submission unto Allah for returning to Him and in order to express his hatred upon the hideous actions of the idol-worshippers.

It is also a lesson for others to learn and contemplate where Moses and his brother (as), who had no perversion, asked Allah for such a remission, they must certainly be aware of their own reckonings. Previous…