ٱتَّخَذُوٓاْ أَيۡمَٰنَهُمۡ جُنَّةࣰ فَصَدُّواْ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِۚ إِنَّهُمۡ سَآءَ مَا كَانُواْ يَعۡمَلُونَ
They make their faith a pretext so that they may turn (men) from the way of Allah. Verily evil is that which they are wont to do — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Munāfiqūn begins at vol. 10, p. 18 (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 51, ¶36 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
سمع الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم كلامهم لفصاحتهم وتزيينهم للكلام، يقولون بألسنته ما ليس في قلوبهم صفة المنافقين فنزلت في حقهم هذه السورة، وكان الرسول صلى اللّه عليه وسلم إذا صلى الجمعة قرأ بالجمعة والمنافقون. الجمعة ينشط المسلمين على الجمعة لما فيها من الخير، 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.