So the magicians were thrown down. This means they were thrown down by what they saw of Allah's command with the utmost speed and in the easiest manner. They fell down on their faces. Al-Asbahani said: Glorified is Allah! How great is their status! They threw down their ropes and staffs in disbelief and denial, then they threw down their heads after a while in gratitude and prostration. How great is the difference between the two acts of throwing down! It is as if someone said: This is their action, so what did they say? It was said: They said, 'We have believed,' meaning we have affirmed.

And when the context of this surah necessitated the introduction of Harun, peace be upon him, he said: ﴿By the Lord of Harun and Musa﴾ as a glad tidings to the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, that He, glorified and exalted is He, does not cause him distress with this Quran, but rather guides people by it and humiliates them before it. He makes the Arabs, despite their pride, the most humiliated of people for his ministers, supporters, and successors, even if they are the weakest of people, and their tribes are the least of tribes. This indicates the truth of their faith and the sincerity of their claim by the precedence of the minister who translates, progressing in the ranks of knowledge from the one who conveyed that to him to the one who commanded him to do so, then to the one who sent him, in gratitude to the benefactors by stages. 'He who does not thank people does not thank Allah.' This is what necessitated his precedence here, not only for this reason. They mentioned the name of the Lord as an indication that He, glorified and exalted is He, has done good to them by elevating their status over the magicians and over those who acknowledged lordship, which is Pharaoh, who did not benefit them at all. They were, at the beginning of the day, magicians, and at its end, righteous martyrs. This verse, along with similar verses in this surah and others, presents what might suggest that its right is to be delayed, and conversely, it contains subtle meanings that led some who were not firmly grounded to say: The Quran observes the pauses as the eloquent Arabs strive for rhyme. A group of later scholars followed this in imitation. The Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, criticized this when he said: 'A rhyme like the rhyme of the pre-Islamic era or, he said, of the soothsayers.' It has been understood from what I have mentioned that the meaning upon which the surah is built can only be organized by the precedence of Harun. This is supported by the fact that he said here: ﴿Indeed, we are messengers﴾ [Ta-Ha: 47] and in the poets 'messenger.' Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi said, as narrated by Sheikh Abu Hayyan in [Surah Fatir] from the river: It is not said regarding anything in the Quran that it was advanced or delayed for the sake of rhyme, because the miracle of the Quran is not merely in the wording, but in it and in the meaning. And Qadi Abu Bakr al-Baqillani said in his book on the miracle of the Quran: Our companions all agreed on denying rhyme from the Quran, and Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari mentioned this in several places in his books. Then he responded to the opponent by saying: What they consider to be rhyme is an illusion, because speech can resemble rhyme even if it is not rhyme, as rhyme follows the meaning in the wording that conveys the rhyme. And it is not like that what has been agreed upon in the estimation of the rhyme from the Quran, because the wording occurs in it as a follower of the meaning. There is a distinction between organizing speech in itself with the words that convey the intended meaning in it and having the meaning organized without the wording. Whenever the meaning is connected to the rhyme, the benefit of the rhyme is like the benefit of anything else. Whenever the meaning is organized by itself without rhyme, it is sought to enhance the speech without correcting the meaning. Then he supported this with precious points that he elaborated on and excelled in - may Allah have mercy on him. It has already been mentioned at the end of [Surah At-Tawbah] what is very beneficial for this purpose.