مَا كَانَ لِبَشَرٍ اَنْ يُّوتِيَهُ اُ۬للَّهُ اُ۬لْكِتَٰبَ وَالْحُكْمَ وَالنُّبُوٓءَةَ ثُمَّ يَقُولَ لِلنَّاسِ كُونُواْ عِبَاداࣰ لِّے مِن دُونِ اِ۬للَّهِ وَلَٰكِن كُونُواْ رَبَّٰنِيِّۧنَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ اَ۬لْكِتَٰبَ وَبِمَا كُنتُمْ تَدْرُسُونَۖ
It is not (possible) for any human being unto whom Allah had given the Scripture and wisdom and the prophethood that he should afterwards have said unto mankind: Be slaves of me instead of Allah; but (what he said was): Be ye faithful servants of the Lord by virtue of your constant teaching of the Scripture and of your constant study thereof — 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, ¶95 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 46 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
لا نصيب ( لَهُمْ فِى الآَخِرَةِ وَلَا يُكَلِّمُهُمْ اللَّهُ) غضبا عليهم (وَلَا يَنظُرْ إِلَيْهِمْ) أي يرحمهم ( يَوْمَ الْفِيَمَةِ وَلَا يُزَكِّيهِمْ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابّ آلِيمٌ وَإِلَّ مِنْهُمْ أهل الكتاب لَقَرِيفاً طائفة (يَلْوُسَ أَلْسِنَتَهُم بِالْكِتَبِ لِتَحْ …
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.