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  • فَلَمَّا But when
  • جَآءَهُمُ came to them
  • ٱلۡحَقُّ the truth
  • مِنۡ from Us
  • عِندِنَا from Us
  • قَالُواْ they said
  • لَوۡلَآ Why not
  • أُوتِيَ he was given
  • مِثۡلَ (the) like
  • مَآ (of) what
  • أُوتِيَ was given
  • مُوسَىٰٓۚ (to) Musa
  • أَوَلَمۡ Did not
  • يَكۡفُرُواْ they disbelieve
  • بِمَآ in what
  • أُوتِيَ was given
  • مُوسَىٰ (to) Musa
  • مِن before
  • قَبۡلُۖ before
  • قَالُواْ They said
  • سِحۡرَانِ Two magic (works)
  • تَظَٰهَرَا supporting each other
  • وَقَالُوٓاْ And they said
  • إِنَّا Indeed, we
  • بِكُلّٖ in all
  • كَٰفِرُونَ (are) disbelievers
But when the truth came to them from Us, they said, "Why was he not given like that which was given to Moses?" Did they not disbelieve in that which was given to Moses before? They said, "[They are but] two works of magic supporting each other,1 and indeed we are, in both, disbelievers."
Footnotes
1 The reference is by the disbelievers of Quraysh to the Qur’ān and the Torah.
But when the truth, namely, Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him, came to them from Us, they said, 'Why has he not been given the like of what Moses was given?', in the way of signs, such as the glowing hand, the staff and others, or [by having] the Book revealed all at once. God, exalted be He, says: And did they not disbelieve in what was given to Moses before?; [before] when, they said, regarding him and Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him, 'Two sorcerers (saahiraan; a variant reading has sihraan, 'two sorceries', namely [what they said regarding] Al-Qur'an and the Torah) abetting each other.' And they said, 'We indeed disbelieve in both', the two prophets and the two Scriptures [of Moses and Muhammad].