Overall meaning : When Pharaoh perceived Moses’s insistence on calling him and his people to worship Allah alone, the Almighty states, he said to his chiefs, 'Bring me every skilled magician.’ When the magicians arrived, Moses said to them, 'Cast down whatever ropes and staffs you have.’ And when they had thrown down their ropes and staffs, Moses said to them, 'What you have brought and cast down is mere magic, which Allah will bring to nothing and prove false. Allah does not set right the work of the evil-doers who perpetrate corruption in the land. Allah will establish the truth I have brought you and prove it to be true by His Words and Command, and He make it reign supreme over your falsehood, even though the wicked evildoers hate it.