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