اَوْ خَلْقاࣰ مِّمَّا يَكْبُرُ فِے صُدُورِكُمْۖ فَسَيَقُولُونَ مَنْ يُّعِيدُنَاۖ قُلِ اِ۬لذِے فَطَرَكُمُۥٓ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةࣲۖ فَسَيُنْغِضُونَ إِلَيْكَ رُءُوسَهُمْ وَيَقُولُونَ مَت۪يٰ هُوَۖ قُلْ عَس۪يٰٓ أَنْ يَّكُونَ قَرِيباࣰۖ
Or some created thing that is yet greater in your thoughts! Then they will say: Who shall bring us back (to life). Say: He Who created you at the first. Then will they shake their heads at thee, and say: When will it be? Say: It will perhaps be soon — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Isrāʾ begins at vol. 5, p. 165 (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 — vol. 5, p. 144 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
Recorded, not yet transcribed. Lesson 30 runs from Q 16:90–Q 17:111. Of the 150 āyāt in that span, 78 are quoted in the transcription; this one is not among them, so whether he comments on it is not established. The page given is where the lesson opens — start there and read on.
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.