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Surah al-Anbiya' (The Prophets ) 21 : 3

لَاهِيَةً قُلُوبُهُمْ ۗ وَأَسَرُّوا۟ ٱلنَّجْوَى ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ هَلْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْ ۖ أَفَتَأْتُونَ ٱلسِّحْرَ وَأَنتُمْ تُبْصِرُونَ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
With their hearts distracted. And those who do wrong conceal their private conversation, [saying], "Is this [Prophet] except a human being like you? So would you approach magic while you are aware [of it]?"

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(21:3:1)
lāhiyatan
Distracted
(21:3:2)
qulūbuhum
their hearts
(21:3:3)
wa-asarrū
And they conceal
(21:3:4)
l-najwā
the private conversation
(21:3:5)
alladhīna
those who
(21:3:6)
ẓalamū
[they] wronged
(21:3:7)
(21:3:8)
(21:3:9)
illā
except
(21:3:10)
basharun
a human being
(21:3:11)
mith'lukum
like you
(21:3:12)
afatatūna
So would you approach
(21:3:13)
l-siḥ'ra
the magic
(21:3:14)
(21:3:15)
tub'ṣirūna
see (it)

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Explanatory Note

they plot among themselves and encourage one another in adopting an attitude that denies God’s message. In reference to God’s Messenger (peace be upon him), “the wrongdoers say to one another: ‘Is this man anything but a human being like yourselves? Will you, then, follow his sorcery with your eyes open?” Dead as their hearts were, they could not but be shaken by the Qur’ān. Hence they try to resist its influence with false excuses. They whisper to one another that Muhammad is a man, and wonder how they could believe a message preached by a human being like themselves. They allege that what he says is plain magic, and ask how they could surrender themselves to sorcery when they have eyes with which to look.

 

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According to  Ibn Attiyah and Qurtubi there is consensus on this Surah being a Makki Surah -

"Both the subject matter and the style of the Surah indicate that it was sent down in the third stage of the life of the Prophet at Makkah" [Ref: Mawdudi]

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