[Pooya/Ali Commentary 26:34] (see commentary for verse 10)

1. This is a convincing proof how an open mind, though having erred on unsound principles, when subjected to test, admits unsoundness of his principles to the truth. The magicians realizing the unsoundness of the jugglery with which they had over-powered the public at large, when brought to display their tricks, before the Divine Representative, found they could no longer stand the test and submitted to God despite Pharaoh’s threat to hang them on the scaffold, whereas Pharaoh, being impassioned in worldly power, could not overcome his passion, and remained misguided to his own destruction p roving “to reign is worth ambition, though in hell. 2. This shows, despite our Prophet’s threatening his companions, who were similarly drowned in love of worldly power, could not check themselves after his demise, ad submitted to passion, sacrificing eternal gains under misguidance to their own loss.