لَقَدِ اِ۪بْتَغَوُاْ اُ۬لْفِتْنَةَ مِن قَبْلُ وَقَلَّبُواْ لَكَ اَ۬لُامُورَ حَتَّيٰ جَآءَ اَ۬لْحَقُّ وَظَهَرَ أَمْرُ اُ۬للَّهِ وَهُمْ كَٰرِهُونَۖ
Aforetime they sought to cause sedition and raised difficulties for thee till the Truth came and the decree of Allah was made manifest, though they were loth — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Tawba begins at vol. 4, p. 74 (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 22, ¶39 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 86 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
ويحك بطنك تسع كل هذا من ألوان الطعام ولا تسع كلمة سمعتها منه؟ اذهب عني أفسدتَ عليَّ نفسك لأني لا أثق بك بعد، وأفسدت علي صديقي لأنك بلّغتني الشر من عنده، اذهب ولا ترجع إلي. هذا هو الذي يستحق النمام أن يعامَل به (لَفَدِ إبْتَغَوْا الْمِتْنَةَ مِن قَبْل) أول ما ق …
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.