Surah 28. Al-Qasas, Ayah 36
| فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمْ مُوسَىٰ بِآيَاتِنَا بَيِّنَاتٍ قَالُوا مَا هَٰذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُفْتَرًى وَمَا سَمِعْنَا بِهَٰذَا فِي آبَائِنَا الْأَوَّلِينَ |
| Transliteration | : | fa- lammaa jaa'a -hum mosaa bi- 'aayaat -naa bayyinaat qaalo maa haadhaa 'illaa sih.r muftara(n) wa- maa samicnaa bi- haadhaa fe 'aabaa' -naa al- 'awwalen |
| Pickthall | : | But when Moses came unto them with Our clear tokens, they said: This is naught but invented magic. We never heard of this among our fathers of old. |
| Asad | : | BUT AS SOON as Moses came unto them with Our clear messages [Pharaoh and his great ones] said: "All this is nothing but spellbinding eloquence devised [by man]:34 and never did we hear [the like of] this, [nor has it ever been heard of] in the time of our forebears of old!" |
| Malik | : | When Musa (Moses) came to them (Fir'on and his chiefs) with Our clear signs and invited them to Islam, they said: "This is nothing but baseless sorcery; we never heard such a thing in the time of our forefathers." |
| Yusuf Ali | : | When Moses came to them with Our Clear Signs they said: "This is nothing but sorcery faked up: never did we hear the like among our fathers of old!" 3367 3368 |
Note - 34See note [12] on 74:24, which is the earliest Qur'anic
instance of the term sihr in the above connotation.
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Note - 3367This is what Moses was thinking of when he had said:
"They may accuse me of falsehood". To accuse the purest
Truth of lying is a favourite trick of those whose chief
stock-in-trade is deception and sorcery and catching the
attention of the vulgar by arts adapted to their ignorant
minds!
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Note - 3368'As to this higher talk of the worship of the One true
God, why, our ancestors have worshipped power and
patronage, as concentrated in Pharaoh, from the most
ancient times!'
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See note [12] on 74:24, which is the earliest Qur'anic instance of the term sihr in the above connotation. |
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This is what Moses was thinking of when he had said: "They may accuse me of falsehood". To accuse the purest Truth of lying is a favourite trick of those whose chief stock-in-trade is deception and sorcery and catching the attention of the vulgar by arts adapted to their ignorant minds! |
