وَإِذْ قُلْنَا لَكَ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ أَحَاطَ بِالنَّاسِۖ وَمَا جَعَلْنَا اَ۬لرُّءْيَا اَ۬لتِےٓ أَرَيْنَٰكَ إِلَّا فِتْنَةࣰ لِّلنَّاسِ وَالشَّجَرَةَ اَ۬لْمَلْعُونَةَ فِے اِ۬لْقُرْءَانِۖ وَنُخَوِّفُهُمْ فَمَا يَزِيدُهُمُۥٓ إِلَّا طُغْيَٰناࣰ كَبِيراࣰۖ
And (it was a warning) when we told thee: Lo! thy Lord encompasseth mankind, and We appointed the sight which We showed thee as an ordeal for mankind, and (likewise) the Accursed Tree in the Qur'an. We warn them, but it increaseth them in naught save gross impiety — 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
Recording only — no text here. Lesson 30 runs from Q 16:90–Q 17:111. Of the 150 āyāt in that span, as many as 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.