Do not forge a lie against Allah...

Do not forge a lie against Allah, lest He destroy you with a chastisement, and indeed he who forges (a lie) fails.” 62. “Then they disputed upon their affair among themselves and kept the discourse secret.” At last, the appointed day came. Moses (as) was standing in front of the crowd of people. A crowd among which there were some sorcerers, the number of them, as some commentators have said, was seventy two men.

Some other commentators have said that they were four hundred magicians, or more than that. Another group of that crowd were companions of Pharaoh and Pharaoh himself. And, finally, the third group of them, which formed the majority of the crowd, was the ordinary people who had come to watch the event. At this time, Moses turned his face toward the sorcerers, or the companions of Pharaoh and sorcerers, and, as the verse…