۞إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ يَامُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالِاحْسَٰنِ وَإِيتَآءِےْ ذِے اِ۬لْقُرْب۪يٰۖ وَيَنْه۪يٰ عَنِ اِ۬لْفَحْشَآءِ وَالْمُنكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِۖ يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَّكَّرُونَۖ
Lo! Allah enjoineth justice and kindness, and giving to kinsfolk, and forbiddeth lewdness and abomination and wickedness. He exhorteth you in order that ye may take heed — 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 30, ¶10 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 144 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
والإحسان أن تعبد اللّٰه كأنك تراه. «وَإيتَآءِىُ ذِى ٱلْقُرْبِىٰ» ذو القربى كل من جمعك معه رحم وارثا كان أو غير وارث، فيشمل الأعمام والأخوال والعمات والخالات وأبناء الأعمام وأبناء الخالات وأبناء العمات وأبناء الأخوال كلهم قرابة. وصلة الرحم سريعة التأثير تزيد في …
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.