هُوَ ٱلۡأَوَّلُ وَٱلۡأٓخِرُ وَٱلظَّٰهِرُ وَٱلۡبَاطِنُۖ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَيۡءٍ عَلِيمٌ
He is the First and the Last, and the Outward and the Inward; and He is Knower of all things
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Ḥadīd begins at vol. 9, p. 174 (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 49, ¶65 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 152 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
( رَهَرَ ٱلْعَزِيزْ الْحَكِين)) في صنعه (لَقَد مُلْكُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ يُحْي» وَبُمِيتٌ وَهْوَ عَلَىٰ كَلِّ شَيءٍ قَدِيرٌ هُوَ ألاَوَّلُ قبل كل شيء بلا بداية (وَالآخِرُ) بعد كل شيء بلا نهاية (وَالظِّهِرَ) قال المفسر بالأدلة عليه (وَالْبَاطِنَ) عن إدراك …
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 17 · answered in writing
extends — ibn-arabi-tradition
Muhammad al -Mishri : In Defense of the Spiritual Path of the Sufis 38 Manifest, and the Hidden” (Qur ’an 57:3). Those who have fana’ in the Essence see that there is noth- ing first, la
Working transcription — not yet proofread against the printing.
Muḥammad al-Mishrī, not Shaykh Ibrāhīm — the school reading, in a responsum. Question 17. The worked example for his whole theory of graded understanding: the same āya yields the Essence, then the Attribute, then sulūk, as the reader's ḥāl changes.
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.