Text of verse 26:46
فَأُلْقِىَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ سَٰجِدِينَ ٤٦
Transliteration
fa-ul'qiya l-saḥaratu sājidīna
Translation
So the magicians fell down in prostration [to Allāh].
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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 46
سورة الشعراء، الآية ٤٦
Verse 46 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:46), 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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Tafsir of verse 46
Al-Mukhtasar
When the magicians saw Moses’s staff swallowing up whatever they had cast, they fell into prostration.
Other translations of verse 46
So the magicians fell down in prostration.
And the sorcerers fell down prostrate.
And the wizards were flung prostrate,
Then did the sorcerers fall down, prostrate in adoration,
And the magicians were thrown down prostrate;
So the sorcerers were cast down, prostrating themselves.
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Taha 20:65–66
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." …
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Al-Anbya 21:18
بَلْ نَقْذِفُ بِٱلْحَقِّ عَلَى ٱلْبَٰطِلِ فَيَدْمَغُهُۥ فَإِذَا هُوَ زَاهِقٌ وَلَكُمُ ٱلْوَيْلُ مِمَّا تَصِفُونَ
Rather, We dash the truth upon falsehood, and it destroys it, and thereupon it departs. And for you is destruction from that which you describe.
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Al-Isra 17:81
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."
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Al-A’raf 7:116
قَالَ أَلْقُوا۟ فَلَمَّآ أَلْقَوْا۟ سَحَرُوٓا۟ أَعْيُنَ ٱلنَّاسِ وَٱسْتَرْهَبُوهُمْ وَجَآءُو بِسِحْرٍ عَظِيمٍ
He said, "Throw," and when they threw, they bewitched the eyes of the people and struck terror into them, and they presented a great [feat of] magic.
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Taha 20:69
وَأَلْقِ مَا فِى يَمِينِكَ تَلْقَفْ مَا صَنَعُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَا صَنَعُوا۟ كَيْدُ سَٰحِرٍ وَلَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلسَّاحِرُ حَيْثُ أَتَىٰ
And throw what is in your right hand; it will swallow up what they have crafted. What they have crafted is but the trick of a magician, and the magician will not succeed wherever he is."
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Al-A’raf 7:118–123
فَوَقَعَ ٱلْحَقُّ وَبَطَلَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ …
So the truth was established, and abolished was what they were doing. …