قُل لَّوۡ كَانَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ مَلَٰٓئِكَةࣱ يَمۡشُونَ مُطۡمَئِنِّينَ لَنَزَّلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَلَكࣰ ا رَّسُولࣰ ا
Say: If there were in the earth angels walking secure, We had sent down for them from heaven an angel as messenger — 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 31, ¶71 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
إن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى لا يستعين بالشياطين إذا أراد أن يوجد شيئا (وَيَوْمَ يَفُولْ نَادُواْ شرَكَآءِى) الأوثان { ألذِيرَ زَعَمْتُمْ) أين الآلهة الذين كنتم تدّعون أنهم آلهة (قَدَعَوْهُمْ بَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُواْ لَهُمْ) لم يجيبوهم (وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُم مَوْبِفاً) …
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.