أَمۡ لَهُمۡ ءَالِهَةࣱ تَمۡنَعُهُم مِّن دُونِنَاۚ لَا يَسۡتَطِيعُونَ نَصۡرَ أَنفُسِهِمۡ وَلَا هُم مِّنَّا يُصۡحَبُونَ
Or have they gods who can shield them from Us? They cannot help themselves nor can they be defended from Us — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Anbiyāʾ begins at vol. 6, p. 107 (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 33, ¶118 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 84 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
مما يسوؤهم (ص دُونِتَا) هل لهم آلهة غير الله؟ لا، لا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ) الآلهة (نَصْرَ أَنْسِهِمْ الآلهة سيصيرون إلى النار ولا يقدرون على أن ينصروا أنفسهم فكيف بغيرهم (وَلا هُم مِنَّا يُصْحَبُونَ) يجارون، يقال: صحبك اللّٰه أي حفظك وأجارك (بَلْ مَتَّعْنَا مَؤْلاءٍ …
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.