يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقۡنَٰكُم مِّن ذَكَرࣲ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلۡنَٰكُمۡ شُعُوبࣰ ا وَقَبَآئِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوٓاْۚ إِنَّ أَكۡرَمَكُمۡ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ أَتۡقَىٰكُمۡۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرࣱ
O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Ḥujurāt begins at vol. 9, p. 79 (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 40, ¶21 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 195 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
أذكر أم أنثى (وَمَا تَدْرِى نَجْسٌ مَاذَا تَكْسِبُ) من خير أو شر ويعلمه اللّٰه (غَدا وَمَا تَدْرِه نَمْشَ بِأَيِّ أَرْضِ تَمُوتُ ويعلمه اللّٰه تعالى (إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ)) هذه مفاتيح الغيب التي قال النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: (خمسة لا يعلمها إلا الله …
Read in context →Not Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s words. Students and successors reading the same verse — kept below and apart, because a school’s reading is evidence of transmission, not of what the master said.
rev. July 2018 · Arabic · Question 15 · answered in writing
of all things, from the first manifestations to the last . The Truth indicates this in His (t.w.t.) say- ing, “O humankind, We have c reated you from a male and a female” (Qur’an 49:13) —the “male” is in reality the Name, and the “female” is in reality the At
Working transcription — not yet proofread against the printing.
Muḥammad al-Mishrī, not Shaykh Ibrāhīm — the school reading, in a responsum. Question 15.
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.