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Surah al-A`raf (The Elevated Places) 7 : 120

وَأُلْقِىَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ سَٰجِدِينَ

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
And the magicians fell down in prostration [to Allāh].

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(7:120:1)
wa-ul'qiya
And fell down
(7:120:2)
l-saḥaratu
the magicians
(7:120:3)
sājidīna
prostrate

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Explanatory Note

But the surprise is not over yet. The scene brings yet another, even greater surprise. How does this happen? It is simply the truth exercising its authority over people’s feelings and consciences. It opens up hearts to prepare them to receive its light and accept its reassurance. The sorcerers are the best people to know how far their skill can go, and they are the best to evaluate the nature of what Moses worked out and whether it was an act of skilful sorcery or something brought about by a power far greater than any human being can have. A learned specialist in any field is the first to acknowledge the truth in that field whenever it appears clearly to him, because he can recognize the truth much quicker than those who have only superficial knowledge of his specialty. This explains how the sorcerers moved from open challenge to total submission, after having recognized the truth with open minds.

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7. Period of Revelation

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A study of its contents clearly shows that the period of its revelation is about the same as that of Surah 6: al-An’am (The Grazing Livestock), i.e. the last year of the Prophet's life at Makkah, but it cannot be asserted with certainty which of these two were sent down earlier. The manner of its admonition clearly indicates that it belongs to the same period. [Ref: Mawdudi]

It is considered the longest surah revealed during the Makkan period. Some consider this surah to have been revealed after Surah 38: Sad. [Ref: Tafsir al-Maudheei, Dr. Mustafah Muslim, vol. 3, p. 2]

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