إِنَّ اَ۬لذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اِ۬للَّهِ عِبَادٌ اَمْثَالُكُمْۖ فَادْعُوهُمْ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُواْ لَكُمُۥٓ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَۖ
Lo! those on whom ye call beside Allah are slaves like unto you. Call on them now, and let them answer you, if ye are truthful — 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 20, ¶37 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
انتُمْ صَامِتُونَ) عن دعائهم لا يتبعوه لعدم سماعهم (إِنَّ الذِينَ تَدْعُونَ) تعبدون ومٍ دُوبِ اللَّهِ عِبَادٌ) مملوكة ( آمْثَالُكُمْ جَادْعُوهُمْ وَلْيَسْتَجِيبُواْ لَكُم دعاء كم (إِن كُنتُمْ صَدِفِينَ) في أنها آلهة لو كانوا آلهة لاستجابوا الدعاء، ولكنهم عاجزو …
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.