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Surah Taha, Verse 70

سورة طه، الآية ٧٠

20:70 Juz 16 Hizb 32 Page 316 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 20:70

فَأُلْقِىَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ سُجَّدًا قَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّ هَٰرُونَ وَمُوسَىٰ ۝٧٠

Transliteration

fa-ul'qiya l-saḥaratu sujjadan qālū āmannā birabbi hārūna wamūsā

Translation

So the magicians fell down in prostration.841 They said, "We have believed in the Lord of Aaron and Moses."

Notes

[841] After they had seen the miracles which Allāh had given Moses and that they were realities and not merely impressions of magic.

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Verse 70 of Surah Taha (20:70), 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 70

Al-Mukhtasar

So Moses threw down his stick and it turned into a snake and swallowed up what the magicians had produced. The magicians then all prostrated to Allah once they came to know that what Moses had was not magic, but it was from Allah and they said: We have faith in the Lord of Moses and Aaron, the Lord of all created things.

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Other translations of verse 70

So the magicians fell down in prostration17, saying, “We believe in the Lord of Aaron and Moses.”

Notes

[17] They realized that the miracles of Moses were not impressions of magic, but absolute realities.

So the magicians fell down prostrate. They said: "We believe in the Lord of Hârûn (Aaron) and Mûsâ (Moses)."

Then the wizards were (all) flung down prostrate, crying: We believe in the Lord of Aaron and Moses.

So the magicians were thrown down to prostration: they said, "We believe in the Lord of Aaron and Moses".

And the magicians were cast down making obeisance; they said: We believe in the Lord of Haroun and Musa.

Then the sorcerers were (all) cast down constantly prostrating. They said, "We believe in The Lord of Harun (Aaron) and Musa."

Verse 70 word by word

  1. فَأُلْقِىَ fa-ul'qiya So were thrown down ل ق ي
  2. ٱلسَّحَرَةُ l-saḥaratu the magicians س ح ر
  3. سُجَّدًا sujjadan prostrating س ج د
  4. قَالُوٓا۟ qālū They said ق و ل
  5. ءَامَنَّا āmannā We believe أ م ن
  6. بِرَبِّ birabbi in (the) Lord ر ب ب
  7. هَٰرُونَ hārūna (of) Harun
  8. وَمُوسَىٰ wamūsā and Musa

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  • Ash-Shu’ara 26:47–48

    قَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ …

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  • Al-A’raf 7:121

    قَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ

    They said, "We have believed in the Lord of the worlds,

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