Verse 85 of Surah Taha (20:85), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 317 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 85
Al-Mukhtasar
Allah said: “I have tested your people whom you left behind through worship of the calf. Samiri called them to worshipping it and he has misguided them through this”.
Allah said, “We have certainly tested your people in your absence, and Sāmiri25 has led them astray.”
Notes
[25] i.e., the Samaritan (a man from Samaria), a hypocrite who led the Children of Israel to the worship of the calf, or to idol-worship.
(Allâh) said: "Verily We have tried your people in your absence, and As-Sâmirî has led them astray."
He said: Lo! We have tried thy folk in thine absence, and As-Samiri hath misled them.
(Allah) said: "We have tested thy people in thy absence: the Samiri has led them astray."
He said: So surely We have tried your people after you, and the Samiri has led them astray.
Said He, "Yet surely We have already tempted your people even after you; (i.e., after your departure from them) and As- Samiriyy (The Samaritan) has led them into error."
And We wrote for him on the tablets [something] of all things - instruction and explanation for all things, [saying], "Take them with determination and order your people to take the best of it. I will show you the home of the defiantly disobedient."
