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Surah Taha, Verse 69

سورة طه، الآية ٦٩

20:69 Juz 16 Hizb 32 Page 316 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 20:69

وَأَلْقِ مَا فِى يَمِينِكَ تَلْقَفْ مَا صَنَعُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَا صَنَعُوا۟ كَيْدُ سَٰحِرٍ وَلَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلسَّاحِرُ حَيْثُ أَتَىٰ ۝٦٩

Transliteration

wa-alqi mā fī yamīnika talqaf mā ṣanaʿū innamā ṣanaʿū kaydu sāḥirin walā yuf'liḥu l-sāḥiru ḥaythu atā

Translation

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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Verse 69 of Surah Taha (20:69), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 316 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 69

Al-Mukhtasar

Throw down the stick that is in your right hand: it will turn into a snake and swallow up the magic they have produced. They have only produced a magic trick, and a magician will not achieve his objective, wherever he may be.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Taha

Other translations of verse 69

Throw what is in your right hand; it will swallow up what they have contrived. They have only contrived a magic trick, and the magician will never prosper, wherever he goes.”

"And throw that which is in your right hand! It will swallow up that which they have made. That which they have made is only a magician’s trick, and the magician will never be successful, to whatever amount (of skill) he may attain."

Throw that which is in thy right hand! It will eat up that which they have made. Lo! that which they have made is but a wizard's artifice, and a wizard shall not be successful to whatever point (of skill) he may attain.

"Throw that which is in thy right hand: Quickly will it swallow up that which they have faked what they have faked is but a magician's trick: and the magician thrives not, (no matter) where he goes."

And cast down what is in your right hand; it shall devour what they have wrought; they have wrought only the plan of a magician, and the magician shall not be successful wheresoever he may come from.

And cast down what is in your right (hand). It will gulp what they have worked out; surely what they have worked out is only the plotting of a sorcerer; and the sorcerer will not prosper where he comes up."

Verse 69 word by word

  1. وَأَلْقِ wa-alqi And throw ل ق ي
  2. مَا mā what
  3. فِى fī (is) in
  4. يَمِينِكَ yamīnika your right hand ي م ن
  5. تَلْقَفْ talqaf it will swallow up ل ق ف
  6. مَا mā what
  7. صَنَعُوٓا۟ ṣanaʿū they have made ص ن ع
  8. إِنَّمَا innamā Only
  9. صَنَعُوا۟ ṣanaʿū they (have) made ص ن ع
  10. كَيْدُ kaydu a trick ك ي د
  11. سَٰحِرٍ sāḥirin (of) a magician س ح ر
  12. وَلَا walā and not
  13. يُفْلِحُ yuf'liḥu will be successful ف ل ح
  14. ٱلسَّاحِرُ l-sāḥiru the magician س ح ر
  15. حَيْثُ ḥaythu wherever ح ي ث
  16. أَتَىٰ atā he comes أ ت ي

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