فَقَالَ إِنْ هَذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ يُؤْثَرُ

Popular Translations

Muhammad Asad

and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down [from olden times]

Arthur John Arberry

He said, 'This is naught but a trumped-up sorcery

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Then said he: "This is nothing but magic, derived from of old

Arabic

فَقَالَ إِنۡ هَـٰذَاۤ إِلَّا سِحۡرࣱ یُؤۡثَرُ ۝٢٤

Transliteration (2021)

faqāla in hādhā illā siḥ'run yu'thar