اِلَّا اَ۬لْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ اَ۬لرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَآءِ وَالْوِلْدَٰنِ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ حِيلَةࣰ وَلَا يَهْتَدُونَ سَبِيلاࣰۖ
Except the feeble among men, and the women, and the children, who are unable to devise a plan and are not shown a way — 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 12, ¶17 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 198 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
جَهَنَّمْ وَسَآءَتْ مَصِيراً) من ترك الهجرة واعده بجهنم (إِلاَ ٱلْمُسْتَصْعَمِينَ صِ ألرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَآءِ وَالْوِلْدَانِ) قال ابن عباس: كنت أنا وأمي منهم (لا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ حِيلَةً) لا قوة لهم على الهجرة ولا النفقة (وَلا يَهْتَدُونَ سَبِيلًا) طريقا إلى أرض …
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.