Sūrat Ṭāhā · 20 : 89

أَفَلَا أَلَّا إِلَيْهِمْ وَلَا لَهُمْ وَلَا

See they not, then, that it returneth no saying unto them and possesseth for them neither hurt nor use — Pickthall

In the printed edition: Sūrat Ṭāhā begins at vol. 6, p. 69 (Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)

The āya above is Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ, the rasm of the printed edition. The root behind each underlined word comes from a Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim corpus, realigned to this Warsh text word by word; 125 of the 6,236 āyāt differ in word count between the two riwāyāt, and those were aligned rather than assumed. A word carries no underline where the corpus supplies no root. Lexicon entries are a reading aid and carry no page reference; the edition does not cite them. Page references elsewhere on this site 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.

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Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr◐ matched, unchecked

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 33, ¶41 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 84 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يعطي ما شاء لمن شاء - نسأله من فضله العظيم. من شدة غفلتهم لم ينتبهوا إلى أن العجل لا يصلح أن يكون إلها (أَجَلاَ يَرَوْنَ أَلا أنه لا (يَرْجِعُ إِلَيْهِمْ قَوْلًا) لو كلموه لا يقدر أن يرد لهم جوابا، كيف يكون إلها؟ ( وَلا يَمْلِكُ لَهُمْ ضَرّأَ دفعه ( وَلَا نَمْعَاَ لا ينفع ولا يضر كيف يتخذ إلها؟ ولكن غمرتْهم الغفلة حتى عبدوا العجل وهو لا يستحق

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