Surah al-Falaq (The Daybreak ) 113 : 4

Explanatory Note

This verse refers to various types of magic, whether by deceiving people’s physical senses or by influencing their will-power and projecting ideas onto their emotions and minds. The verse specially refers to a form of witchcraft carried out by women in Arabia at the time who tied knots in cords and blew upon them with an imprecation.

Magic is the production of illusions, subject to a magician’s designs, and it does not offer any kind of new facts or alter the nature of things. This is how the Qur’an describes magic when relating the story of Moses in Surah 20, Taha.

ٱلنَّفَّـٰثَـٰتِ naf-fathaat (a feminine plural) - in common arabic: women who blow on knots. I.e. It could also be an adjective of nufoos, the plural of nafs (those who blow into knots of magic.) Nafs is a feminine, word. Naf-fasaat = feminine plural. It could also refer to groups, people doing this magic underground collectively. (jam'u qillah, and jam'u salim[?] also).

Naf-fatha (nun, fa, fa, Tha [with 3 dots on] - to blow with a little bit of spit coming out of your mouth. [Ref: Nouman Ali Khan, Dream Tafsir Notes]