20 Preface قالَ فَعَلتُها إِذًا وَأَنا مِنَ الضّالّينَYusuf AliMoses said: “I did it then, when I was in error.1What is Moses’s reply? He is no longer afraid. He tells the whole truth, extenuating nothing in his own favour. “Yes I did it: but I did it under an error.” There are three implications in this: “(1) 1 was wrong in doing it in a temper and in being hasty: (2) I was wrong in taking the law into my own hands, but I repented and asked for God’s pardon (28:15-16): (3) that was a time when I was under your influence, but since then I am a changed man, as God has called me.”