Rowwad Translation Center — 168

7:144 He said, “O Moses, I have chosen you above other people, by giving you My messages and speaking to you. So hold fast to what I have given you, and be of those who are grateful.”

7:145 We inscribed for him in the Tablets admonition of all things and explanation of everything. “Hold fast to them and ask your people to follow the best of it. I will show you the home of the rebellious[1].

7:146 I will turn away from My signs those who are arrogant[1] in the land without any right. Even if they see every sign, they will still not believe in it; if they see the way of guidance, they will not follow it, but if they see the way of misguidance, they will follow it as their way. That is because they have rejected Our signs and were heedless of them.

7:147 Those who reject Our signs and the meeting of the Hereafter, their deeds will become worthless. Will they not be recompensed except for what they used to do?

7:148 In his absence, the people of Moses took for worship an image of a calf made from their jewelry that made a lowing sound. Did they not see that it could neither speak to them nor could it guide them[1] to any [straight] way? Yet they took it for worship and they were wrongdoers.

7:149 When they became remorseful and realized that they had gone astray, they said, “If our Lord does not have mercy upon us and forgive us, we will certainly be among the losers.”