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Surah Ta-Ha Ayat 91 in Arabic Text

قَالُواْ لَن نَّبۡرَحَ عَلَيۡهِ عَٰكِفِينَ حَتَّىٰ يَرۡجِعَ إِلَيۡنَا مُوسَىٰ
Qaaloo lan nabraha ‘alaihi ‘aakifeena hattaa yarji’a ilainaa Moosaa

English Translation

Here you can read various translations of verse 91

Sahih International
They said, “We will never cease being devoted to the calf until Moses returns to us.”

Yusuf Ali
They had said: “We will not abandon this cult, but we will devote ourselves to it until Moses returns to us.”

Abul Ala Maududi
But they answered: “By no means shall we cease to worship it until Moses returns to us.”

Muhsin Khan
They said: “We will not stop worshipping it (i.e. the calf), until Musa (Moses) returns to us.”

Pickthall
They said: We shall by no means cease to be its votaries till Moses return unto us.

Dr. Ghali
They said, “We will never leave off consecrating ourselves to it, until M‍s’a returns to us.”

Abdel Haleem
but they replied, ‘We shall not give up our devotion to it until Moses returns to us.’

Muhammad Junagarhi
انہوں نے جواب دیا کہ موسیٰ (علیہ السلام) کی واپسی تک تو ہم اسی کے مجاور بنے بیٹھے رہیں گے

Quran 20 Verse 91 Explanation

For those looking for commentary to help with the understanding of Surah Ta-Ha ayat 91, we’ve provided two Tafseer works below. The first is the tafseer of Abul Ala Maududi, the second is of Ibn Kathir.

Ala-Maududi

(20:91) But they answered: “By no means shall we cease to worship it until Moses returns to us.”[69]


69. Here the Quran exonerates Prophet Aaron (peace be upon him) from the sin of taking any part in the calfworship, but in contrast to this, the Bible makes him wholly responsible for making the golden calf and setting it up as a god. According to Exodus:

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. And all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at his hand, and fashioned it with a graying tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord. (1,32: 1-5).

It is just possible that the real name of the Samiri was also Aaron which later on might have misled the Israelites to attribute the making of the golden calf to Prophet Aaron. Thus it is obvious that the Quran has shown a favor to the Jews and Christians by exonerating Prophet Aaron from the sin, but it is an irony that the Christian missionaries and the Orientalists still insist that the Quran is guilty of anachronism and that the calf was made a deity of worship by a holy prophet of theirs. In their blind obduracy they forget that even according to the Bible this was a great sin. (Exodus, 32: 21). A little further on in the same chapter the Bible again contradicts itself. It says that Prophet Moses ordered the Levites to kill all their kinsfolk, their friends and their fellow countrymen who had been guilty of the sin of calf-worship. Accordingly, about three thousand men fell that day. (Exodus, 32: 27-29).

Now the question arises: Why was Prophet Aaron not killed, if he was the inventor of the calf-worship? Why didn’t the Levites ask Prophet Moses to kill his brother, Prophet Aaron, who was the real sinner, just as they were asked to kill theirs. The Bible also says that after this Moses went back to the Eternal and prayed Him to forgive their sins or blot him out of His list of the living, and the Eternal answered: Whosoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book (Exodus, 32: 31-33). But we learn from the Bible that the name of Prophet Aaron was not blotted out, but, on the other hand, he and his sons and his family were given the charge of the sanctuary and the office of priesthood (Numbers, 18: 1-7). Thus it is quite evident from the internal testimony of the Bible itself, that it contradicts itself and supports the Quran in its exoneration of Prophet Aaron.

Ibn-Kathir

The tafsir of Surah Ta-Ha verse 91 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Taha ayat 90 which provides the complete commentary from verse 90 through 91.

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