فَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ مَا ٱسۡتَطَعۡتُمۡ وَٱسۡمَعُواْ وَأَطِيعُواْ وَأَنفِقُواْ خَيۡرࣰ ا لِّأَنفُسِكُمۡۗ وَمَن يُوقَ شُحَّ نَفۡسِهِۦ فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلۡمُفۡلِحُونَ
So keep your duty to Allah as best ye can, and listen, and obey, and spend; that is better for your souls. And whoso is saved from his own greed, such are the successful
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Taghābun begins at vol. 10, p. 25 (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 50, ¶69 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 189 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
النضير (وَبُوثِرُونَ عَلَىْ أَنْمُسِهِمْ وَلَوْ كَانَ بِهِمْ خَصَاصَةٌ ) ويوثرون غيرهم على أنفسهم ولو كانوا محتاجين أولئك وقاهم اللّٰه شح أنفسهم (وَمَنْ يُوقَ شُحَّ نَفْسِهِ ) حرصها (بَأوْلَيِكَ هُمْ الْمُفْلِحُونُ) إن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى مدح المهاجرين والأنصا …
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 18 · answered in writing
i.e. carrying out what Allah (t.w.t.) has commanded and avoiding what He has forbidden, and it is what is meant by His (t.) saying “Have taqwa of Allah acc ording to your ability ” (Qur’an 3. The taqwa of the elite of the elite, which is protecting oneself fr
Working transcription — not yet proofread against the printing.
Muḥammad al-Mishrī, not Shaykh Ibrāhīm — the school reading, in a responsum. Question 18.
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.