[Moses] said, "Then go. And indeed, it is [decreed] for you in [this] life to say, 'No contact.'1 And indeed, you have an appointment [in the Hereafter] you will not fail to keep. And look at your 'god' to which you remained devoted. We will surely burn it and blow it [i.e., its ashes] into the sea with a blast.
Translation: Saheeh International (English)
1 i.e., Do not touch me. As chastisement, he was to be completely shunned by all people.
لَّنُحَرِّقَنَّهُۥSurely we will burn itlanuḥarriqannahu
ثُمَّthenthumma
لَنَنسِفَنَّهُۥcertainly we will scatter itlanansifannahu
فِيinfī
ٱلۡيَمِّthe seal-yami
نَسۡفًا(in) particlesnasfan
Tafsir
Moses (peace be upon him) said to Samiri: “Go, for it is written for you that you will say as long as you live: ‘I am not to touch or be touched’. You will live as an outcast, and you have a promised time on the Day of Judgment in which you will be reckoned and punished. Allah will never break this promise with you. And look towards your calf which you had made your god and which you continued to worship besides Allah. We shall burn it in a fire until it melts, then we shall scatter it into the sea until no trace of it remains.