ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ عَلَى ٱلۡعَرۡشِ ٱسۡتَوَىٰ
The Beneficent One, Who is established on the Throne
In the printed edition: Sūrat Ṭāhā begins at vol. 6, p. 69 (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 32, ¶84 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 40 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
الرهن. الرحمن مطلقا هو اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى ويسمى غيره الرحمن لكن بإضافة شيء، رحمان البمامة مثلا (عَلَى ألْعَرْشِ إسْتَوى) استواء يليق به تبارك وتعالى. العرش أكبر المخلوقات 1. وفي لغة العرب العرش سرير الملك، والمخلوقات مندرجة تحت العرش، المخلوقات الجسمانية. وال …
Read in context →A single interpretive equivalence, often a received one, rather than commentary proper.
Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 3 · held at students’ request
إِنَّ العَرْشَ مَقْلُوبُ شَرْعٍ… فَالشَّرْعُ مَجْمُوعُ رَحْمَةِ الأَرْضِ وَمَحَطُّهَا
The Throne (ʿarsh) is sharʿ inverted… so the Law is the sum of the earth's mercy and its landing-place.
Working transcription — not yet proofread against the printing.
al-Raḥmān ʿalā l-ʿarsh istawā — inna l-ʿarsh maqlūb sharʿ: the consonants of ʿ-r-sh reversed give sh-r-ʿ. The Throne is where God's mercy descends, so the Law is the sum and landing-place of mercy on earth. NO PARALLEL FOUND in the published scholarship on Niasse.
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.