اِ۬لْمَالُ وَالْبَنُونَ زِينَةُ اُ۬لْحَيَوٰةِ اِ۬لدُّنْي۪اۖ وَالْبَٰقِيَٰتُ اُ۬لصَّٰلِحَٰتُ خَيْرٌ عِندَ رَبِّكَ ثَوَاباࣰ وَخَيْرٌ اَمَلاࣰۖ
Wealth and children are an ornament of the life of the world. But the good deeds which endure are better in thy Lord's sight for reward, and better in respect of hope — 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, ¶55 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
الملك الحق يوم القيامة هو اللّٰه (هُوَ خَيْرٌ ثَوَاباً من ثواب غيره (وَخَيْرٌ عُفْبات، عاقبة. ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله: ذكر الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أن من أراد أن يدخل داره أو بستانه أو أي شيء له فقال: ما شاء اللّٰه لا قوة إلا بالله لم ير فيه مكروها، فل …
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.