إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ عَلَا فِے اِ۬لَارْضِ وَجَعَلَ أَهْلَهَا شِيَعاࣰ يَسْتَضْعِفُ طَآئِفَةࣰ مِّنْهُمْ يُذَبِّحُ أَبْنَآءَهُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيِۦ نِسَآءَهُمُۥٓۖ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ مِنَ اَ۬لْمُفْسِدِينَۖ
Lo! Pharaoh exalted himself in the earth and made its people castes. A tribe among them he oppressed, killing their sons and sparing their women. Lo! he was of those who work corruption — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Qaṣaṣ begins at vol. 7, p. 114 (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 38, ¶61 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
المظهر الحق من الباطل (نَتْلُواْ عَلَيْكَ) نقص عليك (م نَبَإِ مُوبِى) خبر موسى (وَمِرْعَوْنَ بِالْحَقِّ) الصدق (لِفَوْمِ يُومِنُونَ) لأجلهم لأنّهم المنتفعون به، قصص موسى مع فرعون قصص بارعة لأن فرعون في غاية الذكاء وحاذق جدا بخلاف نمرود (إِنَّ بِرْعَوْنَ عَلاَ …
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.