He said, meaning Musa, in response to their conduct, [better than it -] and because he understood that their intention was to begin, and for him to be the last so that the outcome would be by the power of his miracle over their magic, and there would be no doubt after that: 'I will not throw first.' [Rather, you throw] you first. So, they seized the opportunity, because that was their intention as understood from the expression of the context and the explicit mention of the first. So they threw, and when their ropes and staffs were thrown, it was imagined to him [as if] they were moving, and he is our trustworthy one [an initial illusion -] from their magic, which they had [indeed -] surpassed the people of the earth with. [That] due to the intensity of its disturbance, it was moving, and if this was his state despite being the most certain of people in sight and the most penetrating in insight, what do you think of others!