Prophet Moses Duck The Magicians

TA-HA (TA-HA) : 57-69

20:57. He said: "Hast thou come to drive us out of our land with thy magic, O Moses?
20:58. "But we can surely produce magic to match thine! So make a tryst between us and thee, which we shall not fail to keep - neither we nor thou - in a place where both shall have even chances."
20:59. Moses said: "Your tryst is the Day of the Festival, and let the people be assembled when the sun is well up."

20:60. So Pharaoh withdrew: He concerted hilan, and then came (back).
20:61. Moses said to him: Woe to you! Forge not ye a lie against Allah, lest He destroy you (at once) utterly by chastisement: the forger must suffer frustration!"
20:62. So they disputed, one with another, over their affair, but they kept their talk secret.

20:63. They said: "These two are certainly (expert) magicians: their object is to drive you out from your land with their magic, and to do away with your most cherished institutions.
20:64. "Therefore concert your plan, and then assemble in (serried) ranks: He wins (all along) today who gains the upper hand."
20:65. They said: "O Moses! whether wilt thou that thou throw (first) or that we be the first to throw?"

20:66. He said, "Nay, throw ye first!" Then behold their ropes and their rods-so it seemed to him on account of their magic - began to be in lively motion!
20:67. So Moses conceived in his mind a (sort of) fear.
20:68. We said: "Fear not! for thou hast indeed the upper hand:

20:69. "Throw that which is in thy right hand: Quickly will it swallow up that which they have faked what they have faked is but a magician's trick: and the magician thrives not, (no matter) where he goes."