Moral Failure

But Satan caused them to slip out of it and removed them from that [condition] in which they had been. And We said, "Go down, [all of you], as enemies to one another, and you will have upon the earth a place of settlement and provision for a time."

[Allah] said, "And what made you hasten from your people, O Moses?"

[Allah] said, "But indeed, We have tried your people after you [departed], and the Samiri has led them astray."

They said, "We did not break our promise to you by our will, but we were made to carry burdens from the ornaments of the people [of Pharaoh], so we threw them [into the fire], and thus did the Samiri throw."

And he extracted for them [the statue of] a calf which had a lowing sound, and they said, "This is your god and the god of Moses, but he forgot."

They said, "We will never cease being devoted to the calf until Moses returns to us."

And Iblees had already confirmed through them his assumption, so they followed him, except for a party of believers.

Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden, when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning

And they went early in determination, [assuming themselves] able.

But when they saw it, they said, "Indeed, we are lost;

Rather, we have been deprived."

They said, "Exalted is our Lord! Indeed, we were wrongdoers."

About the criminals,

And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who engaged [in it],

But the wretched one will avoid it -