قَالَ أَرَٰٓيْتَ إِذَ اَوَيْنَآ إِلَي اَ۬لصَّخْرَةِ فَإِنِّے نَسِيتُ اُ۬لْحُوتَۖ وَمَآ أَنس۪يٰنِيهِ إِلَّا اَ۬لشَّيْطَٰنُ أَنَ اَذْكُرَهُۥۖ وَاتَّخَذَ سَبِيلَهُۥ فِے اِ۬لْبَحْرِۖ عَجَباࣰۖ
He said: Didst thou see, when we took refuge on the rock, and I forgot the fish - and none but Satan caused me to forget to mention it - it took its way into the waters by a marvel — 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, ¶76 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
الليل، وموسى صام الليالي والأيام كلا حتى صام أربعين يوما ما أحس بجوع لما كان مقصوده حضرة اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، وفي نصف نهار شكيا من الجوع وقال "ءَاتِنَا غَدَآءَنَا لَفَدْ لَفِينَا مِ سَجَرِنَا هَذَا نَصَباً وما شكا إلا بعد أن جاوز المحل الذي فيه مطلوبه الذي هو …
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.