ا۟وْلَٰٓئِكَ اَ۬لذِينَ يَدْعُونَ يَبْتَغُونَ إِلَيٰ رَبِّهِمُ اُ۬لْوَسِيلَةَ أَيُّهُمُۥٓ أَقْرَبُ وَيَرْجُونَ رَحْمَتَهُۥ وَيَخَافُونَ عَذَابَهُۥٓۖ إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّكَ كَانَ مَحْذُوراࣰۖ
Those unto whom they cry seek the way of approach to their Lord, which of them shall be the nearest; they hope for His mercy and they fear His doom. Lo! the doom of thy Lord is to be shunned — 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, ¶148 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 144 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
هم آلهة يَبْتَغُولَ) يطلبون (إِلَى رَبِّهِمُ الْوَسِيلَةَ) أي القربة بالطاعة أَيُّهُمْ أَقْرَبْ) إِليه فكيف بغيره (وَبَرْجُولَ رَحْمَتَهُو وَيَخَاجُونَ عَذَابَةُ ) كغيرهم فكيف تدعونهم آلهة (إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّكَ كَانَ مَحْذُوراً وَإِن صِ فَرْيَةٍ) أريد أهلها ( …
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.