Allah hath created every animal of water. Of them is (a kind) that goeth upon its belly and (a kind) that goeth upon two legs and (a kind) that goeth upon four. Allah createth what He will. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Nūr begins at vol. 6, p. 190(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.
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loci in the corpus
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distinct acts
1956 – 1964
attested span
0 of 2
text available
This verse across his life
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.
1960
March–April 1956al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya
1964Fī riyāḍ
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◌ session coverage
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 36 — vol. 7, p. 3 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
Session transcribed; this āya not located within it. Lesson 36 is titled by sūra rather than by āya; its bounds (Q 24:1–Q 25:77) assume the session opens at the first verse of its first named sūra, and of the thirty sessions that state their own range, three do. Read the edges as unsettled. Of the 141 āyāt in that span, 49 are quoted in the transcription; this one is not among them, so whether he comments on it is not established. The page given is where the lesson opens — start there and read on.
Glossed in passing
A single interpretive equivalence, often a received one, rather than commentary proper.
al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya al-maʾkhūdha min al-qalam al-Sīrīnbiyya
الحكم القطبية المأخوذة من القلم السيرينبيةgloss● verified
Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 5 · held at students’ request
Recorded, not yet transcribed. man yamshī ʿalā baṭnih = appetite of the belly; on two feet = appetite of sex; on four = those who seek jāh, called four because they are ridden. And some of the ʿārifūn walk by their spirits.
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.