Ta-Ha 87: They said, “We did not turn back from our promise to you with our own might. But we were loaded with the ornaments of that nation (Egyptians) and then threw them (into a fire), and As-Samiri threw too (into a fire).

A. Metin Saruhan · 15 May 2017 · Ta-Ha

Translation

They said, “We did not turn back from our promise to you with our own might. But we were loaded with the ornaments of that nation (Egyptians) and then threw them (into a fire), and As-Samiri threw too (into a fire).

Tafsir

The people of Prophet Moses (peace be upon him) said to Prophet Moses (peace be upon him), "We did not turn back from our promise to you of our own will. When we left Egypt, we took some burdens with us, that is, we took gold and jewelry with us. We realized that these jewels and money are of no value here. Allah feeds us with His power. He sends us manna and quail. This is already a valley. There is no need for money where there is no need for anything. So we threw away the jewelry we had, and we threw away such weights. Samiri dropped his weights with us.

What is said in the video

Yes, "They said" – Surah Ta-Ha, verse 87. They said: we did not, of our own power and will, break our promise to you. It makes one laugh. When the people (?) worshipped the calf, when Moses went to Allah Almighty for (?), to speak with Him, what do they do? Well, behind his back

they worship the calf. Well, what does it say here? We did not, of our own power, our own will, break our promise to you. So, when you threw the gold, when Samiri made a calf, when he made the calf, your worshipping that calf – was it because of the calf's influence on you that you turned back? Did you have no will of your own? Did the calf take control of you, of your will? You turned to it. Look at the words they speak. That is, the excuse is worse than the fault. Let's read this part once more. We did not break our promise to you by our own power and will. But we had been loaded with some burdens of the ornaments of that people, the Egyptians.

Then we had thrown them into it. Samiri likewise had thrown too, it says. Here. Yes. Now it says "we threw likewise", but where did you throw these? Where did you throw them? Presumably, even if of your own will you threw it away thinking it would be of no use to you, with your worshipping that calf again, this throwing of yours was actually not because the gold would be of no use to you – it already comes out that you threw it in order to worship the calf. Although Allah Almighty protected you so much, if you once again, behind Aaron's back or behind Moses' back, on condition of not listening to Aaron, worshipped the calf, that already shows what this is. But here we write it likewise as follows. We say that the people of Moses (peace be upon him) said to Moses (peace be upon him) the following: We did not break our promise to you of our own will.

When we left Egypt, we were loaded with some burdens. That is, we took things like gold and jewels with us. We saw that here jewels or money have no value. Yes. Now they are trying in that way to justify themselves. Allah feeds us with His own power. He sends it to us, since manna is made for us. This place is a valley anyway. Where nothing is needed, there is no need for money. Thereupon we, too, the jewels that were with us threw (?), as burdens of this kind. Samiri, too, threw his burdens along with us. Samiri threw too. Of course he would. What does he say? Samiri: Come on, give me the gold.

Moses got his god mixed up. He went astray. Well, this is Moses' god, he says. Every time the wind hits it, it lows. That (?), this man was quite a craftsman. One report says he was a Copt. They say a Gypsy. Another report says that, apart from the (?) lowing by the wind, there was a lowing sound of Satan from inside. And the most correct is that it was not by the sound of the wind but a trick Satan played to lead them astray.

Yes