قَالَ رَجُلَانِ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَخَافُونَ أَنۡعَمَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيۡهِمَا ٱدۡخُلُواْ عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلۡبَابَ فَإِذَا دَخَلۡتُمُوهُ فَإِنَّكُمۡ غَٰلِبُونَۚ وَعَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَتَوَكَّلُوٓاْ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ
Then out spake two of those who feared (their Lord, men) unto whom Allah had been gracious: Enter in upon them by the gate, for if ye enter by it, lo! ye will be victorious. So put your trust (in Allah) if ye are indeed believers
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Māʾida begins at vol. 3, p. 33 (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 14, ¶2 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 49 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
أخبروا الناس بحال الجبابرة فجبنوا منهم إلا كالب ويوشع فقط هما اللذان خافا اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى وكتما أحوال الجبابرة إلا عن موسى عليه الصلاة والسلام وهارون ( أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمَا بالعصمة فكتما ما اطلعا عليه من حالهم إلا عن موسى بخلاف بقية النقباء فأفشوه …
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
Allah’s speech, when he said to me that my father (r.a.a.) had said to him that he was able to extract all the meanings of the Qur’an from His (t.) words , “Two men said” (Qur’an 5:23). Then I said to him that I was able to do that with His (t.) words, “And o
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.