وَلَوْ شَآءَ رَبُّكَ لَجَعَلَ اَ۬لنَّاسَ أُمَّةࣰ وَٰحِدَةࣰۖ وَلَا يَزَالُونَ مُخْتَلِفِينَ
And if thy Lord had willed, He verily would have made mankind one nation, yet they cease not differing — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Hūd begins at vol. 4, p. 193 (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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 26, ¶51 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
ألذِينَ ظَلَمُوا) بالفساد وترك النهي (مَا اثْرِجُوا) نعموا (فِيهِ وَكَانُواْ مُجْرِمِينَ وَمَا كَان رَبُّكَ لِيَهْلِكَ الْفُرِىٰ بِظَلْمِ) منه (وَأَهْلُهَا مُصْلِحُونَ) مؤمنون إن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى لا يهلك القرى وأهلها مصلحون أي مؤمنون (وَلَوْ شَآءَ رَبُّكَ ل …
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.