۞لَّا تُدْرِكُهُ اُ۬لَابْصَٰرُۖ وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ اُ۬لَابْصَٰرَۖ وَهُوَ اَ۬للَّطِيفُ اُ۬لْخَبِيرُۖ
Vision comprehendeth Him not, but He comprehendeth (all) vision. He is the Subtile, the Aware — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Anʿām begins at vol. 3, p. 112 (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 16, ¶119 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 122 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
الإنسان شيئا ولا يدركه (وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الاَبْصَرَ) يراها ويدركها كما نعلمه ولا ندركه، نراه ولا ندركه (وَهُوَ اللَّطِيف) بأوليائه ( الْخَبِير) بهم فَدْ جَآءَكُم بَصَائِرُ) حجج (س رَبِّكُمْ قَمَىَ ابْصَرَها فامن (بَلِنَمْسِهِ) أبصر لأن ثواب إبصاره له وَمَنْ عَب …
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.