۞فَلَا تُعْجِبْكَ أَمْوَٰلُهُمْ وَلَآ أَوْلَٰدُهُمُۥٓۖ إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُ اُ۬للَّهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُم بِهَا فِے اِ۬لْحَيَوٰةِ اِ۬لدُّنْي۪ا وَتَزْهَقَ أَنفُسُهُمْ وَهُمْ كَٰفِرُونَۖ
So let not their riches nor their children please thee (O Muhammad). Allah thereby intendeth but to punish them in the life of the world and that their souls shall pass away while they are disbelievers — 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, ¶42 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 86 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
بالفاظ مختلفة والمعنى واحد[1] «جَلا تُعْجِبْكَ أَمْوَلَهَمْ وَلَا أَوْ لَدَ خَنَّت» لا تستحسن نعمنا عليهم فهي استدراج «إِنَّمَا يَرِيدُ أَللَّهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُم» أن يعذبهم «بِهَا مِ الحَيَوْهِ الدَّنْيا» بما يَلقون في جمعها من المشقة وفيها من المصائب «وَتَرْهَو …
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.