113 Preface وَجاءَ السَّحَرَةُ فِرعَونَ قالوا إِنَّ لَنا لَأَجرًا إِن كُنّا نَحنُ الغالِبينَAli Quli QaraiAnd the magicians came to Pharaoh. They said, ‘We shall indeed have a reward if we were to be the victors?’1 This is in accordance with the reading of Ḥafṣ and that of the Ḥijāzī qārīs. However, in accordance with an alternate reading (with an interrogative hamzah before inna, exactly as in 26:41, a parallel verse) the translation will be, ‘Shall we indeed have a reward if we were to be the victors?’ (see Muʿjam al-Qirāʾāt al-Qurʾāniyyah, ii, pp. 388-389).