يَٰٓأَيُّهَا اَ۬لذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ لَا تَتَّخِذُواْ اُ۬لذِينَ اَ۪تَّخَذُواْ دِينَكُمْ هُزُؤاࣰ وَلَعِباࣰ مِّنَ اَ۬لذِينَ أُوتُواْ اَ۬لْكِتَٰبَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَالْكُفَّارَ أَوْلِيَآءَۖ وَاتَّقُواْ اُ۬للَّهَ إِن كُنتُم مُّومِنِينَۖ
O Ye who believe! Choose not for guardians such of those who received the Scripture before you, and of the disbelievers, as make a jest and sport of your religion. But keep your duty to Allah if ye are true believers — Pickthall
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 — vol. 3, p. 49 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
Recorded, not yet transcribed. Lesson 14 runs from Q 5:23–Q 5:81. Of the 59 āyāt in that span, 40 are quoted in the transcription; this one is not among them, so whether he comments on it is not established. The page given is where the lesson opens — start there and read on.
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.