وَأَلۡقَىٰ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ رَوَٰسِيَ أَن تَمِيدَ بِكُمۡ وَأَنۡهَٰرࣰ ا وَسُبُلࣰ ا لَّعَلَّكُمۡ تَهۡتَدُونَ
And He hath cast into the earth firm hills that it quake not with you, and streams and roads that ye may find a way — 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 29, ¶104 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 100 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
خلق (لَكُمْ الأَرْضِ) من الحيوان والنبات وغير ذلك (مُخْتَلِهاً الْوَانّمُةَ) كأحمر وأصفر وأخضر (إِنَّ مِى ذَلِكَ لاَيَةً لِقَوْمِ يَذَّكَّرُون) يتعظون (وَهُوَ أَلذِى سَخَّرَ الْبَحْرَ) ذله لركوبه والغوص فيه (لِتَاكُلُواْ مِنْهُ لَحْماً طَرِيّا) هو السمك (وَتَ …
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.