Irfan (Volume 1) IRFAAN 1

381-382

Hazrat Musa Alaihis-Salaam (Moses) said that 'these people are stray; do you want to go astray like them?'. Hence, when Hazrat Musa Alaihis-Salaam went on the Mount of Toor in order to converse with Allah Almighty for getting new Commands. He had promised to return within thirty days but instead of thirty days, he had to spent ten more days. His nation assumed as if he has died. In this gap, Samiri, who was a big magician and enchanter, he took this opportunity fit and prepared a calf of gold-and-silver from the booty stock of the nation and entered a satanic spirit into it using his magic. This spirit used to cry like a calf. Since the yeast of idol worship was already present in their nature, Samiri took undue advantage of this weakness and said 'this is your and Musa's god and has appeared in front of you in a solid visible form so that you might worship him'. Thus, all the nation started worshipping it. Although Hazrat Haroon Alaihis-Salaam (Aaron) reminded the people much and advised them to remain away of this practice that it was the marvel of the magic of Samiri and that it cannot be the deity but most of the people of Bani Israel continued its worship. When Hazrat Musa Alaihis-Salaam (Moses) returned and found his nation indulged in idol worship, he felt a lot of grief and agony and he declared his brother Hazrat Haroon Alaihis-Salaam as 'held back'. He called Samiri and said:

(Moses) said: And what has you to say, O Samiri? (20:95)

Samiri replied:

He said: I perceived what they perceive not, so I seized a handful from the footsteps of the messenger, and then threw it in. Thus my soul commended to me (20:96)

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Such an (efficacious) effectiveness (and the impact) exists in the feet of the Roohani Rasool that when they set their step somewhere in this material world, then that soil which touches their blessed feet, the impulse of life is absorbed in it with due (efficacious) effectiveness (and the impact). This soil gets the power and ability to fix a spirit in it. That is, this soil gets the Mediumistic Power. Hence, when Samiri threw that soil inside the calf and entered a devil inside it with his magic and that devil started speaking like a calf from inside. In short, seeing this paranormal quality and action of that wonderful and strange calf made from gold-and-silver, people fell devotee to that. Hazrat Musa Alaihis-Salaam (Moses) cursed Samiri that he may become leper and every that person should become a leper too who touches him. He burnt that Satan that was inside the calf with his spiritual power and threw its ashes in river and ended its devilment. This incident is present in the Holy Quran. Allah Almighty gave this sentence of punishment to those who had worshipped that calf that 'you all fight with each other and kill each other'. Some accepted this punishment and were killed fighting with each other. Those who survived wounded, either their repentance was accepted or ran away here and there and joined other nations of world and kept on worshipping idols at places where they started new lives. Those Arian people who entered Hindustan through the Mountains of Hindukush, they were those people of the era of Hazrat Musa Alaihis-Salaam (Moses) who had fled away. These are the people who kept on the 'Calf' worshipping which is still being practiced there and in order to commemorate the 'throwing of the ashes of their false deity devil of the calf in river' by Hazrat Musa Alaihis-Salaam, they burn their corpses and throw the ashes of the dead bodies of their people in river.