سورة الشعراء، الآية ٤٠
لَعَلَّنَا نَتَّبِعُ ٱلسَّحَرَةَ إِن كَانُوا۟ هُمُ ٱلْغَٰلِبِينَ ٤٠
laʿallanā nattabiʿu l-saḥarata in kānū humu l-ghālibīna
That we might follow the magicians if they are the predominant?"
Verse 40 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:40), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 369 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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If the magicians succeed over Moses, perhaps we should follow them in their religion.
so that we may follow the magicians, if they are victorious?”
"That we may follow the sorcerers [who were on Fir‘aun’s (Pharaoh) religion of disbelief] if they are the winners."
(They said): Aye, so that we may follow the wizards if they are the winners.
"That we may follow the sorcerers (in religion) if they win?"
Haply we may follow the magicians, if they are the vanquishers.
That possibly we would closely follow the sorcerers, in case they are the ones who are the overcomers?"
وَقُلْ جَآءَ ٱلْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ ٱلْبَٰطِلُ إِنَّ ٱلْبَٰطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا
And say, "Truth has come, and falsehood has departed. Indeed is falsehood, [by nature], ever bound to depart."
قَالُوا۟ يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ إِمَّآ أَن تُلْقِىَ وَإِمَّآ أَن نَّكُونَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ أَلْقَىٰ …
They said, "O Moses, either you throw or we will be the first to throw." …
