Answering Questions Through The Holy Qur'an: Was Aaron responsible for the golden calf? Does Aaron share in their guilt at the event of worship of the golden calf?

Was Aaron responsible for the golden calf? Does Aaron share in their guilt at the event of worship of the golden calf?

20:85 He said, "But indeed, We [verily] have tried your people after you, and the Samiri has led them astray." 20:86 Then Moses returned to his people, angry (and) sorrowful. He said, "O my people, did your Lord not promise you a good promise? Then, did the promise seem long to you, or did you desire that the Anger of your Lord descend upon you, so you broke (the) promise to me?" 20:87 They said, "We did not break (our) promise to you by our (own) will, but we were made to carry burdens from the ornaments of the people, so we threw them, and thus threw the Samiri." 20:88 Then he brought forth for them a calf's body which had a lowing sound, and they said, "This is your god and the god of Moses, but he forgot." 20:89 Then, did they not see that it could not return to them a word and that it did not possess for them any harm or benefit? 20:90 And verily Aaron had said to them before, "O my people, you are only being tested by it, and indeed, your Lord is the Most Gracious, so follow me and obey my order."

(Aaron did not worship the calf, but instead, he warned against it (“you are only being tested by it” (20:90)), and he said that God is “the Most Gracious” (Merciful), so “follow me and obey my order”) (Verse 20:85 specifies that the Samiri led the people of Moses astray, so the people of Moses were the wrongdoers (7:148), excluding Moses and Aaron) (Samiri brought forth a calf’s body (20:87-88). On the other hand, the Torah says that Aaron made the calf (Exodus 32:1-4). Aaron is slandered by the Jews/Judaism. Other Prophets were also slandered by Jews, for example, Jesus, who never claimed to be God or son of God, but Jews tried to accuse him of blasphemy. The Torah is not a reliable source, so the event of Aaron is corrected in the Qur’an. See the link below, “Is the Bible corrupted?”) (Internal evidence within the Bible itself contradicts this narrative and proves Aaron’s innocence: The Priesthood Exemption: In Deuteronomy 9:20, Moses states that God was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but Moses prayed for him. Yet, throughout Exodus and Leviticus (e.g., Leviticus 8), Aaron is consecrated as the High Priest (Kohen Gadol). Under biblical law (Leviticus 21), an unrepentant idolater or apostate is strictly prohibited from serving in the Tabernacle, proving the Exodus 32 account was a later edit.) (Academic biblical scholars (e.g., Richard Elliott Friedman in Who Wrote the Bible?) demonstrate that Exodus 32 was written by the Elohist (E) source or Northern Levitical priests who sought to polemicize against the Southern Aaronic priesthood of Jerusalem and Jeroboam's golden calves at Dan and Bethel (1 Kings 12:28). The text was retrofitted onto Aaron to discredit his priestly line, proving modern biblical scholarship agrees that the story is an external slander, not historical fact.) (The Qur'anic narrative corrects human (Jewish) tampering in previous texts.) (Allah knows best)

20:91 They said, "Never we will cease being devoted to it until Moses returns to us." 20:92 He said, "O Aaron, what prevented you (mana’aka), when you saw them going astray, 20:93 That you did not follow me? Then, have you disobeyed my order?" 20:94 He said, "O son of my mother, do not seize (me) by my beard nor by my head. Indeed, I feared that you would say, "You caused division among the Children of Israel and you did not respect my word."

(This Verse specifies that Aaron “saw them going astray” (20:92), so Aaron is not included among them. Aaron was reproached for being “prevented / hindered / arrested” (20:92). The root of “mana’a” (prevented) is “Miim-Nun-Ayn”, and it means “to prevent or hinder or hold back, to impede / withhold / arrest / restrain, to keep / debar / preclude / inhibit, to forbid / prohibit / interdict, deny or refuse, dispute or contest, etc.”) (Aaron had to follow Moses (20:93) and obey his order (20:93). The order was to take Moses’ place (7:142), to do right (7:142), not to follow the way of the corrupters (7:142). The Qur’an does not say that Aaron did wrong or that Aaron followed the way of the corrupters, but was prevented / hindered / arrested in taking Moses’ place, so Aaron was not followed or obeyed (20:90)) (Allah knows best)

7:148 And the people of Moses took, after him, from their ornaments an image of a calf, which [for] it (had) a lowing sound. Did they not see that it could neither speak to them nor guide them to a way? They took it and they were wrongdoers. … 7:150 And when Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved, he said, "Evil is what you have done in my place after me. Were you impatient (over the) matter of your Lord?" And he cast down the tablets and seized his brother by (his) head dragging him towards himself. He said, "O son of my mother, indeed, the people considered me weak and were about to kill me. So (let) not the enemies rejoice over me, and do not place me with the wrongdoing people." 7:151 He said, "O my Lord, forgive me and my brother and admit us into Your Mercy, for You are the Most Merciful of the merciful."

(Notice that in 7:150 Aaron explicitly cries: "do not place me with the wrongdoing people." Moses accepts this plea immediately in 7:151, confirming that Aaron was not among the wrongdoers) (In Verse 7:151, he asks forgiveness for himself and his brother, but the Verse does not say that they were guilty at the event of worshiping the calf, but, according to the context, Moses “seized his brother by (his) head dragging him towards himself”, while Aaron was not guilty, but Aaron was prevented / hindered / arrested in taking Moses’ place, so he asked forgiveness for that which they were responsible for, not in that which they were not responsible or guilty. Notice that, in the Verse, he did not ask forgiveness on behalf of those who worshiped the calf, but he asked forgiveness for himself and his brother)(Allah knows best)

7:155 And Moses chose from his people seventy men for Our appointment. Then when the earthquake seized them, he said, "O my Lord, if You had willed, You could have destroyed them before and me. Would You destroy us for what the foolish among us did? It was not but Your trial by which You let go astray whom You will and You guide whom You will. You are our Protector, so forgive us and have mercy upon us, and You are the Best of Forgivers.

(Moses refers to the transgressors as "the foolish among us". He does not include himself or Aaron in the group that committed the act.) (According to the context of 7:151, Moses asks forgiveness and Mercy (7:155) for himself and his brother.) (Allah knows best)

7:152 Indeed, those who took the calf, will reach them the wrath from their Lord, and humiliation in the life of the world. And thus We recompense the ones who invent.

(Aaron is mentioned in other Verses as a good-doer (6:84, 37:121), instead of someone humiliated in the life of the world (“Indeed, those who took the calf, will reach them the wrath from their Lord, and humiliation in the life of the world” (7:152)) (Allah knows best)

37:118 And We guided both of them to the Straight Path. 37:119 And We left for both of them, among the later generations. 37:120 "Peace be upon Moses and Aaron." 37:121 Indeed, We thus reward the good-doers. 37:122 Indeed, both of them were of Our believing slaves.

6:84 And We bestowed to him Isaac and Jacob, all We guided. And Noah, We guided before; and of his descendants, David and Solomon and Job and Joseph and Moses and Aaron. And thus We reward the good-doers.

19:53 And We bestowed him from Our Mercy his brother Aaron, a Prophet.

5:25 He said "O my Lord, indeed, I do not have power except (over) myself and my brother, so (make a) separation between us and between the defiantly disobedient people."

(In Verse 5:25, Moses disassociate himself and his brother from his people (the defiantly disobedient people). This confirms Aaron was consistently sinless and untainted by the rebellion.) (Allah knows best)

20:87 They said, "We did not break (our) promise to you by our (own) will, but we were made to carry burdens from the ornaments of the people, so we threw them, and thus threw the Samiri (l-samiriyu)."

(Jews derogatorily called Mary “sister of Aaron”, and uttered a great slander against Mary (4:156), while she had a son when no man had touched her (19:20). The Bible confirms that calling someone something in a derogatory way, whether true or false, is a Jewish practice. John 8:48 says, about Jesus, “The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”. Jews were against Samaritans; so they used that word in a derogatory or pejorative way against Jesus, while Jesus was not Samaritan) (John 4:9 confirms that Jesus was not Samaritan: “The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” For Jews do not associate with Samaritans”) (Allah knows best)

(Another example of a righteous person defamed by Jews is Jesus the Messiah himself, to whom Jews attributed blasphemy (saying that he was God and/or the son of God). Paradoxically, this blasphemy became the pillar of a new religion: Christianity. Such a false invention opposes the Torah and the Qur’an, in which God is One, and cannot become human. Believing otherwise implies disbelief / polytheism.) (In Matthew 27:16-17, early manuscript traditions (including Codex Koridethi, Codex Syriac Sinaiticus, and texts known to Origen) render the name as Jesus Barabbas (Iesous Barabbas). Bar-Abba in Aramaic translates literally to "Son of the Father". Sentences in the Gospel, like for example, “I and my father are one” were said by Jesus Barabbas, rather than by Jesus the Messiah. This proves that first-century Jewish leaders and opponents mixed stories of two figures named "Jesus" to prove he was not the Messiah, when Christianity became a threat.) (Likewise, the Babylonian Talmud conflates multiple figures named Yeshu separated by centuries, attributing their blasphemies to Jesus the Messiah: Yeshu ben Pandera / Yeshu ben Stada (Sanhedrin 67a, Shabbat 104b): Said to have lived during the time of King Jannaeus (c. 103–76 BCE)—over a century before Jesus of Nazareth. Yeshu in Gittin 57a: Placed in punishing conditions alongside Titus and Balaam. Academic scholars (e.g., Peter Schafer in Jesus in the Talmud) confirm that these Talmudic passages were deliberate anti-Christian polemics that mixed up distinct historical figures named Yeshu to degrade Jesus of Nazareth and slander his mother Mary.) (Mary Called "Sister of Aaron" (19:28): The Qur'anic phrasing "O sister of Aaron" is an idiomatic Semitic expression denoting noble priestly lineage or spiritual resemblance (similar to calling Jesus the "Son of David"). Elizabeth, Mary's relative, was from the daughters of Aaron (Luke 1:5). The critics who accused Mary used her righteous lineage as a pejorative, according to false Jewish belief.) (Allah knows best)

7:80 And when Lot said to his people, "Do you commit (such) immorality which no one has preceded you of the worlds? … 27:56 But the answer of his people was not except that they said, "Drive out the family of Lot from your town. Indeed, they are a people who keep (themselves) pure.”

(Genesis 19:30-38 also tells about Lot committing incest, but the Bible is not a reliable source) (The narrative in Genesis 19:30-38 accuses Lot (Lūt) of committing incest with his daughters to produce the ancestors of the Moabites and Ammonites. This is widely recognized by biblical scholars as a late, chauvinistic Israelite etiologic polemic designed to dehumanize their neighboring enemy nations (Moab and Ammon).) (The New Testament directly contradicts Genesis 19 by declaring Lot to be a righteous prophet: 2 Peter 2:7–8: "And if he rescued righteous Lot, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)…" A man described three times in a single sentence as "righteous" (dikaios) whose soul was tormented by wickedness could not be an unrepentant, incestuous drunkard. This proves that biblical texts themselves preserve the memory of Lot's piety, refuting the corrupt narrative in Genesis.) (Allah knows best)

See also: Is there any contradiction in the Qur'an? (11) (Prophets)

http://aqtthq.blogspot.com.es/2016/06/why-do-christians-hate-muslims-wasnt.html

See also: Is there any contradiction in the Qur'an? (0) (Index) https://aqtthq.blogspot.com.es/2017/03/refutation-of-so-called-internal.html

See also: Was Aaron a Prophet? Did he receive the Scripture?

https://aqtthq.blogspot.com.es/2016/09/was-aaron-prophet-did-he-receive.html

See also: How the Qur’an corrects Judaism?

https://aqtthq.blogspot.com.es/2016/08/how-quran-corrects-judaism.html

See also: Did the Qur’an confuse Mary, the mother of Jesus, with Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron?

http://aqtthq.blogspot.com.es/2016/12/did-quran-confuse-mary-mother-of-jesus.html