This verse shows how obstinate and excuse makers the Israelites were, and how God's chastisement caught them down! ``When you said: O, Moses! we shall never believe in you, until we see Allah openly with our eyes.''

      This strange request must have been due to their deep ignorance, as the understandings of the fools exceeds not beyond the realm of their five senses. It might also have been due to their obstinacy or their firm adherence to an unreasonable opinion.

      Any how; it was an inevitable fate and decree for them in that state of mind peculiar to them; to see instead of God; one of God's signs, which they were not able to withstand its force and sight, in order to teach them a lesson that no one can see the face of God and live! and that God is not an entity to be ever seen physically by human's eyes; or to be felt by other senses.

      Therefore, a dreadful event, a monstrous thunder-bolt struck the Mount Sinai - so hard and with such a huge and blinding brightness, and accompained by a violent earthquake that all of them fell down to death!

QURÄN, narrates the event thus: ``(WHEN YOU SAID SO) a thunder-bolt caught you, while you were watching.''