أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَي اَ۬لْمَلَإِ مِنۢ بَنِےٓ إِسْرَآءِيلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مُوس۪يٰٓ إِذْ قَالُواْ لِنَبِےٓءࣲ لَّهُمُ اُ۪بْعَثْ لَنَا مَلِكاࣰ نُّقَٰتِلْ فِے سَبِيلِ اِ۬للَّهِۖ قَالَ هَلْ عَسِيتُمُۥٓ إِن كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ اُ۬لْقِتَالُ أَلَّا تُقَٰتِلُواْۖ قَالُواْ وَمَا لَنَآ أَلَّا نُقَٰتِلَ فِے سَبِيلِ اِ۬للَّهِ وَقَدُ ا۟خْرِجْنَا مِن دِيٰ۪رِنَا وَأَبْنَآئِنَاۖ فَلَمَّا كُتِبَ عَلَيْهِمُ اُ۬لْقِتَالُ تَوَلَّوِاْ اِلَّا قَلِيلاࣰ مِّنْهُمْۖ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمُۢ بِالظَّٰلِمِينَۖ

Bethink thee of the leaders of the Children of Israel after Moses, how they said unto a prophet whom they had: Set up for us a king and we will fight in Allah's way. He said: Would ye then refrain from fighting if fighting were prescribed for you? They said: Why should we not fight in Allah's way when we have been driven from our dwellings with our children? Yet, when fighting was prescribed for them, they turned away, all save a few of them. Allah is aware of evil-doers — Pickthall

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.