طه : ٨٧

  • قَالُواْ They said
  • مَآ Not
  • أَخۡلَفۡنَا we broke
  • مَوۡعِدَكَ promise to you
  • بِمَلۡكِنَا by our will
  • وَلَٰكِنَّا but we
  • حُمِّلۡنَآ [we] were made to carry
  • أَوۡزَارٗا burdens
  • مِّن from
  • زِينَةِ ornaments
  • ٱلۡقَوۡمِ (of) the people
  • فَقَذَفۡنَٰهَا so we threw them
  • فَكَذَٰلِكَ and thus
  • أَلۡقَى threw
  • ٱلسَّامِرِيُّ the Samiri
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 Sāmirī throw."
They said, 'We did not break our tryst with you of our own accord (read the meem with any of the three vowellings, meaning 'by our own power' or 'of our own will'), but we were laden with (read hamalnaa, 'we carried', or hummilnaa, 'we were made to carry') the burdens, the weight, of the people's ornaments, of the trinkets of Pharaoh's folk - which the Israelites had borrowed from them on the pretext of [using them for] a wedding, but which had remained with them - and we cast them, we threw them into the fire at the command of the Samaritan, and so, just as We cast, did the Samaritan cast, what he had on him of their trinkets together with the dust that he took from the track left by the hoof of Gabriel's steed, as follows: