مَثَلُ اُ۬لذِينَ اَ۪تَّخَذُواْ مِن دُونِ اِ۬للَّهِ أَوْلِيَآءَ كَمَثَلِ اِ۬لْعَنكَبُوتِ اِ۪تَّخَذَتْ بَيْتاࣰۖ وَإِنَّ أَوْهَنَ اَ۬لْبُيُوتِ لَبَيْتُ اُ۬لْعَنكَبُوتِ لَوْ كَانُواْ يَعْلَمُونَۖ
The likeness of those who choose other patrons than Allah is as the likeness of the spider when she taketh unto herself a house, and lo! the frailest of all houses is the spider's house, if they but knew — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-ʿAnkabūt begins at vol. 7, p. 145 (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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1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 39, ¶41 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 145 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
(لَبَيْتُ الْعَنكَبُوتُ لَوْ كَانُواْ يَعْلَمُونَ) لا يدفع حرا ولا برداكذلك الأصنام لا تنفع عابديها ولا تضر من لم يعبدها (إِلَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمْ مَا تَدْعُونَ مِ دُونِهِ، مِ شَيْءٍ ) الله تبارك وتعالى يعلم أن عابد غير اللّٰه لم يعبد شيئا (وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزْ) في …
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