سورة الشعراء، الآية ٣٢
فَأَلْقَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِىَ ثُعْبَانٌ مُّبِينٌ ٣٢
fa-alqā ʿaṣāhu fa-idhā hiya thuʿ'bānun mubīnun
So [Moses] threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent manifest.1048
[1048] i.e., clearly genuine.
Verse 32 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:32), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 368 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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So Moses threw his stick down on the ground and it suddenly became a snake for everyone to see.
So he threw down his staff, and suddenly it was a real serpent.
So [Mûsâ (Moses)] threw his stick, and behold, it was a serpent, manifest.
Then he flung down his staff and it became a serpent manifest,
So (Moses) threw his rod, and behold, it was a serpent, plain (for all to see)!
So he cast down his rod, and lo! it was an obvious serpent,
So he cast his staff, then, only then was it a (demonstrably) evident serpent.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
فَأَلْقَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِىَ ثُعْبَانٌ مُّبِينٌ
So he [i.e., Moses] threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent, manifest.
