وَلِلَّهِ ٱلۡمَشۡرِقُ وَٱلۡمَغۡرِبُۚ فَأَيۡنَمَا تُوَلُّواْ فَثَمَّ وَجۡهُ ٱللَّهِۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَٰسِعٌ عَلِيمࣱ
Unto Allah belong the East and the West, and whithersoever ye turn, there is Allah's Countenance. Lo! Allah is All-Embracing, All-Knowing
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Baqara begins at vol. 1, p. 54 (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.
Each mark is one work in which Shaykh Ibrāhīm engages this verse, placed by date of composition. Hollow marks are loci we know of but cannot yet show.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 5, ¶26 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 120 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
لا أحد أظلم (مِمَّ مَنَعَ مَسَاجِدَ الَهِ أَنْ يُذْكَرَ مِيهَا سْمَهُوَ) بالصلاة والتسبيح (وَسَعبنى فِي خَرَابِهَا) بالهدم أو التعطيل، ويدخل في هذا كل من منع مسجدا من المساجد أي متعبِّد أو ذاكر لله تبارك وتعالى (أوْلِبِكَ مَا كَانَ لَهُمْ أَنْ يَدْخُلُوهَا إِل …
Read in context →Here the verse warrants a claim argued from other authorities. It is not the object of commentary.
1350 / 1931 · Arabic · ed. Cissé 2001 — page not yet resolved
Recorded, not yet transcribed. Cited for fanāʾ — 'wheresoever you turn, there is the Face of God.' Observed by sampling the Fons Vitae translation, not by a census of the Arabic — no verse-index of the Arabic Kāshif exists. Wright's 2010 analysis counts 271 citations from 112 scholarly authorities but does not treat the Qurʾānic citations as a category.
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.