ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
The Beneficent, the Merciful
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Fātiḥa begins at vol. 1, p. 46 (Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)
The site’s Arabic edition follows Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ; the reference text quoted here and the matcher behind the Fī Riyāḍ loci are Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim. Content is nearly identical, but verse-boundary numbering diverges in a handful of places. Each locus carries its own witness’s numbering. Page references follow the ten-volume Tunis 2022 printing this site was transcribed from; published scholarship on this text cites the six-volume Tunis 2010 printing, whose pagination is different.
Each mark is one work in which Shaykh Ibrāhīm engages this verse, placed by date of composition. Hollow marks are loci we know of but cannot yet show.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 2 · held at students’ request
Recorded, not yet transcribed. al-Raḥīm: raḥma as riqqat al-qalb is impossible of God; its terminus, tafaḍḍul, is not. Hadith of the hundred mercies.
Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 3 · held at students’ request
Recorded, not yet transcribed. EXCURSUS 1 — five names, five pillars: al-Fātiḥa fīhā khamsat asmāʾ, kull ism yushīr ilā qāʿida min qawāʿid al-sharʿ. al-Ḥamdu lillāh → tawḥīd; rabb al-ʿālamīn → the five prayers; al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm → zakāt; mālik yawm al-dīn → ḥajj, and the fast.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 1, ¶59 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 29 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
ذكر اللّٰه في الفاتحة خمسة أسماء من أسمائه تبارك وتعالى: الحمد لله، اللّٰه اسم، رب العالمين رب اسم، الرحمن اسم، الرحيم اسم، ملك يوم الدين اسم، هذا أصل القواعد الخمس، (بني الإسلام على خمس شهادة أن لا إله إلا الله)[43]، معنى لا إله إلا الله: الله، (وإقام الصلاة)
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 55, ¶217 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
(بسْمِ لِلَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ إِذَا جَآءَ نَصْرُ أَللَّهِ) إذا نصر نبيه هو كلفه أن يعادي جميع الخلائق حيث أن موسى ليس له إلا عدو واحد وهو فرعون، وكان في غاية الخوف، ومحمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم كلف بالتبرئة من جميع من يعبد غير اللّٰه فصار العالم كلا عدوا …
Read in context →Entries are grouped by what Shaykh Ibrāhīm is doing with the verse, then ordered oldest first inside each group, so the same words can be seen carrying different work across a career. Every entry names the witness it comes from and how well attested the attribution is. Loci that are known but not yet available are listed rather than hidden.