Surat Ţāhā (Ta-Ha) - سورة طه

: And Harun (Aaron) indeed had said to them beforehand: "O my people! You are being tried in this, and verily, your Lord is (Allah) the Most Beneficent, so follow me and obey my order."

: They said: "We will not stop worshipping it (i.e. the calf), until Musa (Moses) returns to us."

: [Musa (Moses)] said: "O Harun (Aaron)! What stopped you when you saw them going astray;

: "That you followed me not (according to my advice to you)? Have you then disobeyed my order?"

: He [Harun (Aaron)] said: "O son of my mother! Seize (me) not by my beard, nor by my head! Verily, I feared lest you should say: 'You have caused a division among the Children of Israel, and you have not respected my word!' "

: [Musa (Moses)] said: "And what is the matter with you. O Samiri? (i.e. why did you do so?)"

: (Samiri) said: "I saw what they saw not, so I took a handful (of dust) from the hoof print of the messenger [Jibrael's (Gabriel) horse] and threw it [into the fire in which were put the ornaments of the Fir'aun's (Pharaoh) people, or into the calf]. Thus my inner-self suggested to me."