Qala almalao min qawmi firAAawna inna hatha lasahirun AAaleemun
English
Ahmed Ali
The nobles of Pharaoh said: "He surely is a clever magician.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (the chiefs of pharaoh's people said: lo! this is some knowing wizard) who is proficient in wizardry,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : the council of pharaoh’s folk said, ‘surely this man is a cunning sorcerer, outstanding in the art of magic, in [sūrat] al-shu‘arā’ [q. 26:34], these are actually pharaoh’s words, and so it is as if they said it in consultation with him,