سورة الأعراف، الآية ١٠٧
فَأَلْقَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِىَ ثُعْبَانٌ مُّبِينٌ ١٠٧
fa-alqā ʿaṣāhu fa-idhā hiya thuʿ'bānun mubīnun
So he [i.e., Moses] threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent, manifest.392
[392] i.e., genuine and not imagined, as a miracle from Allāh.
Verse 107 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:107), a Meccan surah, is in juz 9, on page 164 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
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So Moses threw his stick and it changed into a great snake, clear for all to see.
So he threw his staff, and it suddenly became a real serpent42.
[42] As a miracle from Allah. In ancient Egypt, the cobra snake, known as the uraeus, was used as a symbol of sovereignty and divine authority worn on the headdresses and crowns.
Then [Mûsâ (Moses)] threw his stick and behold! it was a serpent, manifest!
Then he flung down his staff and lo! it was a serpent manifest;
Then (Moses) threw his rod, and behold! it was a serpent, plain (for all to see)!
So he threw his rod, then lo! it was a clear serpent.
So he cast his staff, and only then was it an evident serpent;
قَالَ أَلَمْ نُرَبِّكَ فِينَا وَلِيدًا وَلَبِثْتَ فِينَا مِنْ عُمُرِكَ سِنِينَ
[Pharaoh] said, "Did we not raise you among us as a child, and you remained among us for years of your life?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
فَأَلْقَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِىَ ثُعْبَانٌ مُّبِينٌ
So [Moses] threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent manifest.
