أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُواْ فِے اِ۬لَارْضِ فَيَنظُرُواْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ اُ۬لذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْۖ كَانُوٓاْ أَكْثَرَ مِنْهُمْ وَأَشَدَّ قُوَّةࣰ وَءَاثَاراࣰ فِے اِ۬لَارْضِ فَمَآ أَغْن۪يٰ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُواْ يَكْسِبُونَۖ
Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of the consequence for those before them? They were more numerous than these, and mightier in power and (in the) traces (which they left behind them) in the earth. But all that they used to earn availed them not — 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, ¶93 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
في بين الرسل ومكذبيها (بالْحَقِّ وَخَسِرَ هُنَالِكَ الْمَبْطِلُونَ) ظهر القضاء والخسران للناس وهم خاسرون في كل وقت قبل ذلك (أللَّهُ ألذِ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الانْعَمَ) قيل الإبل خاصة هنا، والظاهر والبقر والغنم (لِتَرْكَبُواْ مِنْهَام) لهذا قيل الإبل فقط ({وَمِنْهَا …
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.