The Holy Quran 10:81 — Surah Yunus

Arabic text

فَلَمَّآ أَلْقَوْا۟ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ مَا جِئْتُم بِهِ ٱلسِّحْرُ ۖ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَيُبْطِلُهُۥٓ ۖ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُصْلِحُ عَمَلَ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ

Translation

When they threw (their sticks and ropes which seemed to turn into snakes) Moosa عليه الصلاة والسلام told them "What you have displayed is magic (and not what I had shown to Firoun). Allaah shall soon eliminate it (destroy its effect). Surely Allaah does not allow the actions of mischief- makers to materialise (to have significant results)."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The magic of the magicians: the magicians threw their sticks and ropes on the ground, and by suggestion and deception of the eyes it began to appear to the onlookers as if the whole field were filled with live snakes. Musa ﵇ said: this is magic — not what Pharaoh and his flatterers had called magic.

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