قَالَتْ رَبِّ أَنّ۪يٰ يَكُونُ لِے وَلَدࣱ وَلَمْ يَمْسَسْنِے بَشَرࣱۖ قَالَ كَذَٰلِكِۖ اِ۬للَّهُ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُۖ اِ۪ذَا قَض۪يٰٓ أَمْراࣰ فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُۥ كُنۖ فَيَكُونُۖ
She said: My Lord! How can I have a child when no mortal hath touched me? He said: So (it will be). Allah createth what He will. If He decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! and it is — 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 8 — vol. 2, p. 46 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
Recorded, not yet transcribed. Lesson 8 runs from Q 3:15–Q 3:91. Of the 77 āyāt in that span, 45 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.
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.