فَهَزَمُوهُم بِإِذْنِ اِ۬للَّهِۖ وَقَتَلَ دَاوُۥدُ جَالُوتَ وَءَات۪يٰهُ اُ۬للَّهُ اُ۬لْمُلْكَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَعَلَّمَهُۥ مِمَّا يَشَآءُۖ وَلَوْلَا دِفَٰعُ اُ۬للَّهِ اِ۬لنَّاسَ بَعْضَهُم بِبَعْضࣲ لَّفَسَدَتِ اِ۬لَارْضُۖ وَلَٰكِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ ذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَي اَ۬لْعَٰلَمِينَۖ
So they routed them by Allah's leave and David slew Goliath; and Allah gave him the kingdom and wisdom, and taught him of that which He willeth. And if Allah had not repelled some men by others the earth would have been corrupted. But Allah is a Lord of Kindness to (His) creatures — 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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 6, ¶121 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
(وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ ذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى الْعَلَمِينُ) يدفع بعضهم ببعض (تِلْكَ) هذه الآيات (ايَتُ اللَّهِ نَتْلُوهَا) نقصها (عَلَيْكَ) يا محمد ( بِالْحَقِّ بالصدق ( وَإِنَّكَ)) يا محمد (لَمِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ) .
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.