Moses_ said _unto him_, Then get thee gone _from among us_, and [the punishment] for thee during _the period of thy_ life [shall be], that thou shalt say _unto whomsoever thou shalt see_, Touch _me_ not:—(_so he used to wander about the desert, and when he touched any one, or any one touched him, they both became affected with a burning fever:_) and verily for thee is a threat which thou shalt by no means find to be false. And look at thy god, to _the worship of_ which thou hast continued devoted. We will assuredly burn it: then we will assuredly reduce it to powder and scatter it in the sea. (_And Moses, after he had slaughtered it, did this._) Your deity is God only, except whom there is no deity. He comprehendeth all things by _His_ knowledge.—Thus, _O Moḥammad_, do We relate unto thee accounts of what hath happened heretofore; and We have given thee, from Us, an admonition; _namely the Ḳur-án_. (xx. 88-99.) And they were made to drink down the calf into their hearts,[299] (_that is, the love of it mingled with their hearts as drink mingleth_,) because of their unbelief. (ii. 87.) [Remember, O children of Israel,] when Moses said unto his people _who worshipped the calf_, O my people, verily ye have injured your own souls by your taking to yourselves the calf _as a god_; therefore turn with repentance unto your Creator _from the worship of it_, and slay one another: (_that is, let the innocent among you slay the criminal_:) this will be best for you in the estimation of your Creator. _And He aided you to do that, sending upon you a black cloud, lest one of you should see another and have compassion on him, until there were slain of you about seventy thousand._ And _thereupon_ He became propitious towards you, _accepting your repentance_; for He is the Very Propitious, the Merciful. (ii. 51.) [Remember also, O children of Israel,] when ye said, _having gone forth with Moses to beg pardon of God for your worship of the calf, and having heard his words_, O Moses, we will not believe thee until we see God manifestly:—whereupon the vehement sound assailed you, _and ye died_, while ye beheld _what happened to you_. Then We raised you to life after ye had been dead, that peradventure ye might give thanks.[300] (ii. 52, 53.)