وَمَا لَهُم بِهِۦ مِنْ عِلْمٍۖ اِنْ يَّتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا اَ۬لظَّنَّۖ وَإِنَّ اَ۬لظَّنَّ لَا يُغْنِے مِنَ اَ۬لْحَقِّ شَئْاࣰۖ
And they have no knowledge thereof. They follow but a guess, and lo! a guess can never take the place of the truth — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Najm begins at vol. 9, p. 125 (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 48, ¶66 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 108 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
نازعتني فيما أريد أتعبتك فيما تريد ثم لا يكون إلا ما أريد) هذا الملك الحق، الدنيا والآخرة ش تبارك وتعالى من أرادهما فليطلبهما أو إحداهما منه تعالى (وَكَم مِي مَلَكِ) كثير من الملالكة مِي السَّمَوَاتِ) وما أكرمهم عند اللّٰه (ولا تَغْنِ شَبَعَتَهُمْ شَيَا لَا مِ …
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.