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.” Qur’an: Be apes despised: “Khasi'īn” ( خاسئين = despised, humiliated). Qur’an: So We made them an example : “an-Nakal” ( النَّـكال ) means exemplary punishment meted out to one in order that others may desist from such transgression. Qur’an: And when Musa said to his people: “Surely Allah com­mands you that you should sacrifice a cow. . . ”: This is the story of the cow of the Israelites, and it is these verses which have given this chapter its name, the Cow.

The Qur'an has used a dramatic style for this story. It opens with the middle of the story (verses 67 to 71), followed by its beginning…