كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحࣲ وَالَاحْزَابُ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْۖ وَهَمَّتْ كُلُّ أُمَّةِۢ بِرَسُولِهِمْ لِيَاخُذُوهُۖ وَجَٰدَلُواْ بِالْبَٰطِلِ لِيُدْحِضُواْ بِهِ اِ۬لْحَقَّ فَأَخَذتُّهُمْۖ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عِقَابِۖ
The folk of Noah and the factions after them denied (their messengers) before these, and every nation purposed to seize their messenger and argued falsely, (thinking) thereby to refute the Truth. Then I seized them, and how (awful) was My punishment — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Ghāfir begins at vol. 8, p. 159 (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 44, ¶12 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
تَقَلَّبَهُمْ فِى الْبِلَّدِ) للمعاش سالمين فإن عاقبتهم النار أو الهلاك قبل دخول النار. الخطاب للمخاطَب وهم أصحاب النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم [1]، فلا يغررك يا مخاطَب تقلب الكفار فى البلاد فإن عاقبتهم الهلاك ودخول النار (كَذَّبَتْ فَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحِ وَالاَ …
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.