مَتَٰعࣱ قَلِيلࣱ وَلَهُمۡ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمࣱ
A brief enjoyment (will be theirs); and theirs a painful doom — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Naḥl begins at vol. 5, p. 124 (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 28, ¶63 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 70 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
أَمْ صَبَرْنَا مَا لَنَا مِن مَّحِيصٖۖ ) لما كانوا في العذاب تواصوا على البكاء فبكوا آلاف السنين ما نفع ذلك، فتواصوا على الصبر قالوا: المسلمون وجدوا ما وجدوا بالصبر فلنصبر، فصبروا ما نفع شيئا، قالوا «سَوَآءُُ عَلَيْنَآ أَجَزِعْنَا أَمْ صَبَرْنَا مَا لَنَا مِن …
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 45, ¶45 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 203 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
الكفار من الدين الفاسد (مَا لَمْ يَاذَن بِهِ اللَّهُ) كالشرك وإنكار البعث (وَلَوْلاَ كَلِمَةً الْفَصْلِ) أي القضاء السابق، لأن الجزاء يكون يوم القيامة فقط ( لَفْضِىَ بَيْنَهَمْ) وبين المؤمنين بالتعذيب لهم في الدنيا (وَالَّ الظِّلِمِينَ) الكافرين (لَهُمْ عَذَاب …
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.