Then we will surely bring you magic like it, so make between us and you an appointment, which we will not fail to keep and neither will you, in a place assigned."839
Notes
[839] Literally, "marked," as to be known. Another meaning is "a place midway [between us]" or "a level place."
Verse 58 of Surah Taha (20:58), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 315 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 58
Al-Mukhtasar
We will certainly bring to, O Moses, magic similar to yours, so make an appointment between you and us at a specified time and place, which neither of us will fail to keep, and let the place be a central and even place to both groups.
We will surely bring you similar magic. So appoint a day between us that neither you nor we will fail to keep, in a convenient place13.”
Notes
[13] i.e., a midway place between us.
"Then verily, we can produce magic the like thereof; so appoint a meeting between us and you, which neither we nor you shall fail to keep, in an open place where both shall have a just and equal chance (and beholders could witness the competition)."
But we surely can produce for thee magic the like thereof; so appoint a tryst between us and you, which neither we nor thou shall fail to keep, at a place convenient (to us both).
"But we can surely produce magic to match thine! So make a tryst between us and thee, which we shall not fail to keep - neither we nor thou - in a place where both shall have even chances."
So we too will produce before you magic like it, therefore make between us and you an appointment, which we should not break, (neither) we nor you, (in) a central place.
Then, indeed we will definitely come up to you with sorcery the like of it; so set (Literally: make) an appointment between us and you, and we will not fail it, neither we nor you, a place (equally) convenient (to us both)."
Verse 58 word by word
فَلَنَأْتِيَنَّكَfalanatiyannakaThen we will surely produce for youأ ت ي
