Quran 20:69 — Taa-Haa, verse 69
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
Throw down what is in your right hand: it will swallow up what they have produced. They have only produced the tricks of a sorcerer, and a sorcerer will not prosper, wherever he goes.’
وَأَلْقِ مَا فِي يَمِينِكَ تَلْقَفْ مَا صَنَعُوا ۖ إِنَّمَا صَنَعُوا كَيْدُ سَاحِرٍ ۖ وَلَا يُفْلِحُ السَّاحِرُ حَيْثُ أَتَىٰ
wa-alqi mā fī yamīnika talqaf mā ṣanaʿū innamā ṣanaʿū kaydu sāḥirin walā yuf'liḥu l-sāḥiru ḥaythu atā
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Cast down what is in thy right hand, and it shall swallow what they have fashioned; for they have fashioned only the guile of a sorcerer, and the sorcerer prospers not; wherever he goes.'
- Muhammad Asad
- And [now] throw that [staff] which is in thy right hand -it shall swallow up all that they have wrought: [for] they have wrought only a sorcerer's artifice, and the sorcerer can never come to any good, whatever he may aim at!"
- Sahih International
- 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."
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَأَلْقِwa-alqi | And throw | لقي |
| 2 | مَاmā | what | — |
| 3 | فِىfī | (is) in | — |
| 4 | يَمِينِكَyamīnika | your right hand | يمن |
| 5 | تَلْقَفْtalqaf | it will swallow up | لقف |
| 6 | مَاmā | what | — |
| 7 | صَنَعُوٓا۟ ۖṣanaʿū | they have made | صنع |
| 8 | إِنَّمَاinnamā | Only | — |
| 9 | صَنَعُوا۟ṣanaʿū | they (have) made | صنع |
| 10 | كَيْدُkaydu | a trick | كيد |
| 11 | سَـٰحِرٍۢ ۖsāḥirin | (of) a magician | سحر |
| 12 | وَلَاwalā | and not | — |
| 13 | يُفْلِحُyuf'liḥu | will be successful | فلح |
| 14 | ٱلسَّاحِرُl-sāḥiru | the magician | سحر |
| 15 | حَيْثُḥaythu | wherever | حيث |
| 16 | أَتَىٰatā | he comes | أتي |