إِن يَمۡسَسۡكُمۡ قَرۡحࣱ فَقَدۡ مَسَّ ٱلۡقَوۡمَ قَرۡحࣱ مِّثۡلُهُۥۚ وَتِلۡكَ ٱلۡأَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيۡنَ ٱلنَّاسِ وَلِيَعۡلَمَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَيَتَّخِذَ مِنكُمۡ شُهَدَآءَۗ وَٱللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ
If ye have received a blow, the (disbelieving) people have received a blow the like thereof. These are (only) the vicissitudes which We cause to follow one another for mankind, to the end that Allah may know those who believe and may choose witnesses from among you; and Allah loveth not wrong-doers — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Āl ʿImrān begins at vol. 2, p. 34 (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 9, ¶101 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 79 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
المسلمون وما أصابكم أصاب الكفار (وَتِلْكَ ألاَيَامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا) نصرفها (بَيْنَ النَّاسِ) يوم لفرقة ويوم لأخرى، فيوم علينا ويوم لنا ليتعظوا (وَلِيَعْلَمَ اللَّهْ) علم ظهور ( الذِينَ ءَامَنُوا) والقصد في هذا وهو للابتلاء أن يعرف الصادقين في إيمانهم. لو كان الن …
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 39, ¶19 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 145 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
(وَلَيَعْلَمََّ اللَّهُ ألذِينَ ءَامَنُوا) بقلوبهم (وَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْمُنَٰعِفِينَ) يعلم اللّٰه المؤمنين حقا علم وجود، علم الله متعلق بالمعدوم والموجود. إذا كان الشيء معدوما فهو في علم الله، وعلمه الشيء وهو في العدم غير علمه الشيء وهو موجود. فهو علِم حقيقةَ ا …
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.