Ash-Shu'ara Verse 40

so that we may follow the magicians if they prevail?”

so that we may follow the magicians if they are victorious?”

Haply we shall follow the sorcerers if it should be they are the victors.'

‘Are you all coming? We may follow the sorcerers if they win!’

Belike we may follow the magicians if they are the winners?

"That we may follow the sorcerers (in religion) if they win?"

We may perhaps follow the religion of the magicians if they triumph."

(They said): "We may haply follow the magicians if they are victorious."

The people said, “Perhaps we may follow the magicians if they are victorious.”

‘Maybe we will follow the magicians, if they are victors!’

"We are expecting that the sorcerers will triumph and we will follow them (in their religion)."

`So that we may follow the sorcerers if they win clear supremacy.´

Maybe/perhaps we follow the magicians/sorcerers, if they, they were, the defeaters .

The people said, “Perhaps we may follow the magicians if they are victorious.”

And it was said to the people, "Are you assembling?"

"That we may follow the sorcerers [who were on Fir'aun's (Pharaoh) religion of disbelief] if they are the winners."

And it was said to the people: Will you gather together?

Haply we may follow the magicians, if they are the vanquishers.

(They said): Aye, so that we may follow the wizards if they are the winners.

and the people were asked, "Will you all be there so that we may follow the magicians if they become victorious?"

in order that we shall follow the sorcerers if they are the victors'

"That we may follow the sorcerers if they are the winners."

so that we may follow the magicians, if they be the winners."

That we may follow the magicians, if they are the winners.”

Maybe we will follow the sorcerers, should they be the victors' (the interrogative [of the previous verse] is an incitement to assemble and the optative sense [implicit in la`alla] is due to their anticipation of victory, and hence their continued adherence to their religion and rejection of Moses).

That we may follow the sorcerers if they are the winners.

They did not say;`we will follow the truth, whether it rests with the sorcerers or with Musa;' the people were followers of the religion of their king.