سورة يونس، الآية ٧٩
وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ ٱئْتُونِى بِكُلِّ سَٰحِرٍ عَلِيمٍ ٧٩
waqāla fir'ʿawnu i'tūnī bikulli sāḥirin ʿalīmin
And Pharaoh said, "Bring to me every learned magician."
Verse 79 of Surah Yunus (10:79), a Meccan surah, is in juz 11, on page 218 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
80 recitations by 74 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
Pharaoh said to his people, ‘Bring me every person who is knowledgeable and skilled in magic’.
Pharaoh said, “Bring me all learned magicians.”
And Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) said: "Bring me every well-versed sorcerer."
And Pharaoh said: Bring every cunning wizard unto me.
Said Pharaoh: "Bring me every sorcerer well versed."
And Firon said: Bring to me every skillful magician.
And Firaawn said, "Come up to me with every knowledgeable sorcerer."
فَأُلْقِىَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ سَٰجِدِينَ …
So the magicians fell down in prostration [to Allāh]. …
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." …
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.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
يَأْتُوكَ بِكُلِّ سَٰحِرٍ عَلِيمٍ
Who will bring you every learned magician."
