But he turned to his counsellors, and said: "He is a magician or lunatic."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (but he withdrew (confiding) in his might) pharaoh refused to believe in the proof or in moses, relying instead on his troops, (and said: a wizard or a madman) bewitched.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : but he turned away, he rejected belief, to his supports (bi-ruknihi), his hosts, [so called] because to him they are like a support [rukn], saying, to moses that he [moses] was: ‘a sorcerer, or a madman!’
