وَرَبُّكَ اَ۬لْغَفُورُ ذُو اُ۬لرَّحْمَةِۖ لَوْ يُوَ۬اخِذُهُم بِمَا كَسَبُواْ لَعَجَّلَ لَهُمُ اُ۬لْعَذَابَۖ بَل لَّهُم مَّوْعِدࣱ لَّنْ يَّجِدُواْ مِن دُونِهِۦ مَوْئِلاࣰۖ
Thy Lord is the Forgiver, Full of Mercy. If He took them to task (now) for what they earn, He would hasten on the doom for them; but theirs is an appointed term from which they will find no escape — 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, ¶73 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
هذا يريدون به قمع الحق بالباطل فقط (وَاتَّخَذُواْ ءَايَتِ وَمَآ أُنذِرُواْ هَزُوا}) سخرية ووَمَنَ آظلَمْ صِمَّى ذُكِرَ بِئَايَّتِ رَبِّهِ بَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهَا وَنَسِىَ مَا فَدَّمَتْ يَدَّةَ ما عمل من الكفر والمعاصي (إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ أَكِنَّةً …
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.