قُلۡ مَن ذَا ٱلَّذِي يَعۡصِمُكُم مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ إِنۡ أَرَادَ بِكُمۡ سُوٓءًا أَوۡ أَرَادَ بِكُمۡ رَحۡمَةࣰۚ وَلَا يَجِدُونَ لَهُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَلِيࣰّ ا وَلَا نَصِيرࣰ ا
Say: Who is he who can preserve you from Allah if He intendeth harm for you, or intendeth mercy for you. They will not find that they have any friend or helper other than Allah — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Aḥzāb begins at vol. 7, p. 218 (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 40, ¶90 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 195 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
صِ فَبْلُ لا يُوَلُّونَ الأدْبَرْ وكانوا عاهدوا اللّه وبايعوا النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أنّهم لا يولون الأدبار أبدا (وَكَاتَ عَهْدُ أَللَّهِ مَسْؤُولًا) عن الوفاء (فَل لَنْ يَنجَعَكُمُ الْعِرَارُ إِن جَرَرْتُم مِيَ ألْمَوْتِ أَو الْفَتْلِ) الفر لا يفيد في هذا …
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.