يَٰٓأَيُّهَا اَ۬لذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ لَا تَقْرَبُواْ اُ۬لصَّلَوٰةَ وَأَنتُمْ سُكَٰر۪يٰ حَتَّيٰ تَعْلَمُواْ مَا تَقُولُونَ وَلَا جُنُباً اِلَّا عَابِرِے سَبِيلٍ حَتَّيٰ تَغْتَسِلُواْۖ وَإِن كُنتُم مَّرْض۪يٰٓ أَوْ عَلَيٰ سَفَرٍ اَوْ جَآءَ احَدࣱ مِّنكُم مِّنَ اَ۬لْغَآئِطِ أَوْ لَٰمَسْتُمُ اُ۬لنِّسَآءَ فَلَمْ تَجِدُواْ مَآءࣰ فَتَيَمَّمُواْ صَعِيداࣰ طَيِّباࣰ فَامْسَحُواْ بِوُجُوهِكُمْ وَأَيْدِيكُمُۥٓۖ إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ كَانَ عَفُوّاً غَفُوراًۖ
O ye who believe! Draw not near unto prayer when ye are drunken, till ye know that which ye utter, nor when ye are polluted, save when journeying upon the road, till ye have bathed. And if ye be ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have touched women, and ye find not water, then go to high clean soil and rub your faces and your hands (therewith). Lo! Allah is Benign, Forgiving — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Nisāʾ begins at vol. 2, p. 146 (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 11, ¶41 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
كلا، نطقت كل جارحة بما عملت فلم يكتموا شيئا (يَأَيُّهَا ألذِيسَ ءَامَنُوا لا تَفْرَبُواْ الصَلَةَ الآية الثالثة من آيات الخمر، لما نزل "يَسْتَلُونَكَ عَيِ ٱلْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرَ قُلْ جِيهِمَا إِنّمْ كَبِيرٌ وَمَنَاجِعُ لِلنَّاس" شرب بعض وترك بعضٌ، فعمل عبد ال …
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.