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Quran 20:65

Surah Taa-Haa, Verse 65

Juz 16 · Page 316 · Ruku 272 · Meccan

قَالُوا۟ يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ إِمَّآ أَن تُلْقِىَ وَإِمَّآ أَن نَّكُونَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ أَلْقَىٰ

Word by word

قَالُوا۟ qālū They said يَـٰمُوسَىٰٓ yāmūsā O Musa إِمَّآ immā Either أَن an [that] تُلْقِىَ tul'qiya you throw وَإِمَّآ wa-immā or أَن an [that] نَّكُونَ nakūna we will be أَوَّلَ awwala the first مَنْ man who أَلْقَىٰ alqā throws

Transliteration

Qaloo ya moosa immaan tulqiya wa-imma an nakoona awwala man alqa

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

They said: O Moses! Either throw first, or let us be the first to throw?

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

They said: "O Moses! whether wilt thou that thou throw (first) or that we be the first to throw?"

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

يقول تعالى مخبرا عن السحرة حين توافقوا هم وموسى ، عليه السلام ، أنهم قالوا لموسى : ( إما أن تلقي ) أي : أنت أولا ( إما أن تلقي وإما أن نكون أول من ألقى)

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.