still the trad AMBIGUITY IS rife in your Q.......
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Look to the Surrounding Verses
Another crucial point to studying the Scripture properly is to always look at the verses preceding and following a specific verse/subject. An example of how the wrong understanding can be derived if this is not done can be seen in the following
?And Moses said to his people ?O my people, you have wronged your souls by taking the calf, so repent to your Maker, and kill yourselves. That is better for you with your Maker, so He would forgive you. He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.?? (The Message 254)
This verse on its own creates an enigma as Moses is asking his people to commit suicide while suicide is punishable with being cast in Hell (429-30). However, when we look at the ?wider? picture that occurs in the verses before and after then the story takes on a completely different light
?And We appointed a meeting time for Moses of forty nights, but then you took the calf after him while you were wicked. Then We forgave you after that, perhaps you would be thankful. And We gave Moses the Scripture and the criterion, perhaps you would be guided. And Moses said to his people ?O my people, you have wronged your souls by taking the calf, so repent to your Maker, and kill yourselves. That is better for you with your Maker, so He would forgive you. He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.? And you said ?O Moses, we will not believe you until we see God openly!? So the lightning bolt took you while you were still staring. Then We resurrected you after your death that you may be appreciative. And We shaded you with clouds, and sent down to you manna and quails ?Eat from the goodness of the provisions We have provided you.? They did not wrong Us, but it was their souls that they wronged.? (The Message 251-57)
It was the design of the Almighty to resurrect this particular group from the Children of Israel to manifest His signs. Thus, once they refused to kill themselves, God made them die anyway and then resurrected them to make His will done?Thus the paradox is removed since God is the only One who may take life as it is His gift to begin with.
Procrastination is forbidden and that is what they did the people after Moses went away for the 30 years with pharos and another ten to median.
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=13498.msg113938#msg113938
They were told to kill there wrong methodology of living and apply the attributes in there daily lives, but they said we want to see it being practiced before we put it into practice (the bond-described by the attributes) so they where punished.
It?s like they said let others do good before we do it also.
God Bless us all.