عَلَيٰ مَآ فِيهَا وَهِيَ عَلَيٰ يَٰلَيْتَنِے لَمُ
And his fruit was beset (with destruction). Then began he to wring his hands for all that he had spent upon it, when (now) it was all ruined on its trellises, and to say: Would that I had ascribed no partner to my Lord — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Kahf begins at vol. 6, p. 3 (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, ¶54 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
(وَوَلَدآ بَعْبى رَبّبَى أَن يُوتَبِي، خَيْرا صِ جَنَّيِكَ وَيَرْيلَ عَلَيْهَا حُسْبَناَ مِ السَّمَاءِ فَتَصْبِحَ صعيداً زلفاه أرضا ملساء (أوْ يُصْبِحَ مَاوْهَا عَوْرا) بمعنى غائرا {جَلَى تَسْتَطِيعَ لَهُ عَلَياً وَأحِيظَ بِثْمَرِه،) أهلك اللّٰه ثمره (فَأصْبَح …
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.