ذَٰلِكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَفْرَحُونَ فِے اِ۬لَارْضِ بِغَيْرِ اِ۬لْحَقِّ وَبِمَا كُنتُمْ تَمْرَحُونَۖ
(And it is said unto them): This is because ye exulted in the earth without right, and because ye were petulant — 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, ¶86 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
غابوا عنا فلا نراهم الآن (بَل لَمْ نَكّى نَدْعُواْ مِن فَبْلُ شَيْام أنكروا عبادتهم إياها ثم أحضرتْ قال تعالى: "إِنَّكُمْ وَمَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِ دُولِ اللَّهِ حَصَبٌ جَهَنَّمَ" أَي وقودها (كَذَلِكَ) مثل إضلال هؤلاء المكذبين (يُضِلُّ اللَّهُ الْكَفِرِينَ ذَلِكُم) …
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.