يَٰٓأَيُّهَا اَ۬لنَّبِےٓءُ قُل لِّأَزْوَٰجِكَ إِن كُنتُنَّ تُرِدْنَ اَ۬لْحَيَوٰةَ اَ۬لدُّنْي۪ا وَزِينَتَهَا فَتَعَالَيْنَ أُمَتِّعْكُنَّ وَأُسَرِّحْكُنَّ سَرَاحاࣰ جَمِيلاࣰۖ
O Prophet! Say unto thy wives: If ye desire the world's life and its adornment, come! I will content you and will release you with a fair release — 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, ¶118 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 195 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
الدنيا فأطلقكن. قالت: أفي هذا أشاور أبوي؟ أنا أختار اللّٰه ورسوله والدار الآخرة، ولكن إذا دخلت على نسائك تشاورهن لا تقل لهن ما قلت. تتمنى أن تقع واحدة في العكس قال النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: لا تسألني واحدة منهن جوابك إلا وقلته لها. فدخل عليهن جميعا كلهن اختر …
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.