وَلَوۡ يُؤَاخِذُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلنَّاسَ بِمَا كَسَبُواْ مَا تَرَكَ عَلَىٰ ظَهۡرِهَا مِن دَآبَّةࣲ وَلَٰكِن يُؤَخِّرُهُمۡ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلࣲ مُّسَمࣰّ ىۖ فَإِذَا جَآءَ أَجَلُهُمۡ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ بِعِبَادِهِۦ بَصِيرَۢا
If Allah took mankind to task by that which they deserve, He would not leave a living creature on the surface of the earth; but He reprieveth them unto an appointed term, and when their term cometh - then verily (they will know that) Allah is ever Seer of His slaves — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Fāṭir begins at vol. 8, p. 52 (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 42, ¶33 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 55 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
يسبقه ويفوته (فِي السَمَوَتِ وَلاَ مِي الأرْضِ إِنَّهُ كَانَ عَلِيماً بالأشياء (فَدِيراً)) عليها (وَلَوْ يُؤَاخِذُ اللَّهُ النَّاسَ بِمَا كَسَبُوا) من المعاصي (مَا تَرَكَ عَلَىٰ ظَهْرِهَا مِ دَآبَّةٍ) نسمة تدب عليها. لولا حلم اللّٰه كما تقدم بتأخير العذاب لهلك …
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.