Samiri

TA-HA (TA-HA) : 85-91

20:85. (Allah) said: "We have tested thy people in thy absence: the Samiri has led them astray."

20:86. So Moses returned to hieople in a state of indignation and sorrow. He said: "O my people! did not your Lord make a handsome promise to you? Did then the promise seem to you long (in coming)? Or did ye desire that Wrath should descend from your Lord on you, and so ye broke your promise to me?"
20:87. They said: "We broke not the promise to thee, as far as lay in our power: but we were made to carry the weight of the ornaments of the (whole) people, and we threw them (into the fire), and that was what the Samiri suggested.

20:88. "Then he brought out (of the fire) before the (people) the image of a calf: It seemed to low: so they said: This is your god, and the god of Moses, but (Moses) has forgotten!"
20:89. Could they not see that it could not return them a word (for answer), and that it had no power either to harm them or to do them good?

20:90. Aaron had already, before this said to them: "O my people! ye are being tested in this: for verily your Lord is (Allah) Most Gracious; so follow me and obey my command."
20:91. They had said: "We will not abandon this cult, but we will devote ourselves to it until Moses returns to us."