وَجَٰوَزْنَا بِبَنِےٓ إِسْرَآءِيلَ اَ۬لْبَحْرَ فَأَتَوْاْ عَلَيٰ قَوْمࣲ يَعْكُفُونَ عَلَيٰٓ أَصْنَامࣲ لَّهُمْۖ قَالُواْ يَٰمُوسَي اَ۪جْعَل لَّنَآ إِلَٰهاࣰ كَمَا لَهُمُۥٓ ءَالِهَةࣱۖ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ قَوْمࣱ تَجْهَلُونَۖ
And We brought the Children of Israel across the sea, and they came unto a people who were given up to idols which they had. They said: O Moses! Make for us a god even as they have gods. He said: Lo! ye are a folk who know not — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Aʿrāf begins at vol. 3, p. 191 (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 19, ¶56 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 216 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
يقيمون ( عَلَى أَصْنَامٍ لَهُمْ) على عبادة أصنام لهم، لما فلق اللّٰه البحر لبني إسرائيل وتجاوزوا مروا بقوم يعبدون الأصنام (قَالُواْ يَمُوسَى أَجْعَل لَنَآ إِلَها صنما نعبده (كَمَا لَهُمْ إِيَة
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.