طه : ٦٣

  • قَالُوٓاْ They said
  • إِنۡ Indeed
  • هَٰذَٰنِ these two
  • لَسَٰحِرَٰنِ [two] magicians
  • يُرِيدَانِ they intend
  • أَن that
  • يُخۡرِجَاكُم they drive you out
  • مِّنۡ of
  • أَرۡضِكُم your land
  • بِسِحۡرِهِمَا with their magic
  • وَيَذۡهَبَا and do away
  • بِطَرِيقَتِكُمُ with your way
  • ٱلۡمُثۡلَىٰ the exemplary
They said, "Indeed, these are two magicians who want to drive you out of your land with their magic and do away with your most exemplary way [i.e., religion or tradition].
They said, to each other, 'These two men (haadhaan, this [form] concords with the forms used by those[grammarians] who use the alif [ending] for all three cases of the dual person; Aboo 'Amr has [the variant reading] haadhayn) are indeed sorcerers who intend to expel you from your land by their sorcery, and do away with your excellent traditions (muthlaa, the feminine form of amthal, meaning 'the noblest') in other words, [they will do away with the loyalty of] the noblemen among you, because these [latter] will prefer the two of them [Moses and Aaron] on account of their triumph.