وَاتَّخَذَ قَوْمُ مُوس۪يٰ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ مِنْ حُلِيِّهِمْ عِجْلاࣰ جَسَداࣰ لَّهُۥ خُوَارٌۖ اَلَمْ يَرَوَاْ اَنَّهُۥ لَا يُكَلِّمُهُمْ وَلَا يَهْدِيهِمْ سَبِيلاًۖ اِ۪تَّخَذُوهُ وَكَانُواْ ظَٰلِمِينَۖ
And the folk of Moses, after (he left them), chose a calf (for worship), (made) out of their ornaments, of saffron hue, which gave a lowing sound. Saw they not that it spake not unto them nor guided them to any way? They chose it, and became wrong-doers — 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, ¶94 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 216 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
صورة كبش1 والحياة على صورة فرس فكان جبريل كلما أراد السفر يركب الفرس الذي هو الحياة نفس الحياة، وفهم السامري من تربية جبريل له أن هذا الفرس أثره لا يجعل في شيء إلا وسرت فيه الحياة. فأخذ تراب حافر ذلك الفرس فلما صيغ العجل جعله فيه فصار عجلا له خوار كما قال اللّ …
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.