وَإِن تَدْعُوهُمُۥٓ إِلَي اَ۬لْهُد۪يٰ لَا يَسْمَعُواْۖ وَتَر۪يٰهُمْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَيْكَ وَهُمْ لَا يُبْصِرُونَۖ
And if ye (Muslims) call them to the guidance they hear not; and thou (Muhammad) seest them looking toward thee, but they see 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 20, ¶38 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
فكيف أبالي بهم (وَإن تَدْعُوهُمُ و الأصنام {إِلَى الْهُدِى لا يَسْمَعُوا وَتَرِيُهُمْ)، الأصنام ( يَنظُرُونَ إِلَيْكَ) يقابلونك (وَهُمْ لا يُبْصِرُونَ) تجد الأصنام كأنهم ينظرون وليس عندهم بصر لا يرون شيئا. ما أشد حماقة الكفار، محمد إنسان كامل، كامل الأخلاق، كا …
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.