وَلَوْ شَآءَ اَ۬للَّهُ مَآ أَشْرَكُواْۖ وَمَا جَعَلْنَٰكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَفِيظاࣰۖ وَمَآ أَنتَ عَلَيْهِم بِوَكِيلࣲۖ
Had Allah willed, they had not been idolatrous. We have not set thee as a keeper over them, nor art thou responsible for them — 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, ¶121 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 122 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
عاقبة الأمر ( تَرَسْتَ) أي قرأت كتب الماضين {وَلِنَبَيِّنَهَ لِقَوْمِ يَعْلَمُوتَ إتَّبِعْ مَا أُوحِىَ إلَيْ ص رَبِكَ القرآن (لا إِلَ إِلَّ هَوَّ وَأَعْرِضْ عَي ٱلْمَشْرِكِينَ وَلَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ مَا أَشْرَ خَرًا وَمَا جَعَلْتَاكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَبِيطام رقيبا (و …
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.