وَمَا نُرْسِلُ اُ۬لْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنذِرِينَۖ وَيُجَٰدِلُ اُ۬لذِينَ كَفَرُواْ بِالْبَٰطِلِ لِيُدْحِضُواْ بِهِ اِ۬لْحَقَّۖ وَاتَّخَذُوٓاْ ءَايَٰتِے وَمَآ أُنذِرُواْ هُزُؤاࣰۖ
We send not the messengers save as bearers of good news and warners. Those who disbelieve contend with falsehood in order to refute the Truth thereby. And they take Our revelations and that wherewith they are threatened as a jest — 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, ¶72 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
بقولهم أبعث اللّه بشرا رسولا (لِيَدْحِضُوا بِهِ اِلْحَقَّ) ليبطلوا الحق يجدالهم بالباطل يقولون إن البشر لا يستحق الرسالة - ما أشد حماقتهم - يقولون إن الإنسان وهو أكمل خلق اللّٰه لا يستحق أن يكون رسولا من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى ويرون الحجارة آلهة، الحجر يستحق الأل …
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.