89 Preface أَفَلا يَرَونَ أَلّا يَرجِعُ إِلَيهِم قَولًا وَلا يَملِكُ لَهُم ضَرًّا وَلا نَفعًاYusuf AliCould 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?1This is a parenthetical comment. How blind the people were! They had seen Signs of the True Living God, and yet they were willing to worship a dead image! The True Living God had spoken in definite words of command, while this calf could only emit some sounds of lowing, which were themselves contrived by the fraud of the priests. This image could do neither good nor harm, while God was the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Universe, Whose Mercy was unbounded and Whose Wrath was terrible.