“Like Moses the Interlocutor alongside the sorcery of Pharaoh,
During the occurrence of imagination [al-takhyīl] within the object of vision.”
The commentator, Allah sanctified his secret, said:
"Al-Takhyīl is the verbal noun of khayyala ilayhi al-shay', or khayyala ilayhi kadha—meaning: he conceptualized it and illusory-imagined it to be contrary to what it actually is in reality."
And the meaning is that the vision of the eye sometimes errs, thus perceiving things contrary to their actual realities—just as you see the stars reflected in water, or images within glass, all of which the intellect negates. Meaning: what occurred did not happen to the object itself except by way of concealment (al-talbīs) and imagination (al-takhyīl), exactly as occurred to our Master Moses, glorified is his glory, with the sorcerers of Pharaoh.
And He, the Exalted, said in the story of Mary, majestic is His praise: {Then he formulated a likeness [fatamaththala] before her of a well-proportioned human.} 1 Yet Gabriel was not a human being; rather,