وَمِنَ ٱلۡأَعۡرَابِ مَن يَتَّخِذُ مَا يُنفِقُ مَغۡرَمࣰ ا وَيَتَرَبَّصُ بِكُمُ ٱلدَّوَآئِرَۚ عَلَيۡهِمۡ دَآئِرَةُ ٱلسَّوۡءِۗ وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمࣱ
And of the wandering Arabs there is he who taketh that which he expendeth (for the cause of Allah) as a loss, and awaiteth (evil) turns of fortune for you (that he may be rid of it). The evil turn of fortune will be theirs. Allah is Hearer, Knower — 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 23, ¶8 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
خوفا، وهم بنو أسد وغطفان (وَيَتَرَبَّصٌ) ينتظر (بِكُمُ الدَّوَآيِرَ) دوائر الزمان أن تنقلب عليكم فيتخلصوا منكم (عَلَيْهِمْ دَآئِرَةُ السَّوْءِ) عليهم الهلاك لا عليكم أنتم المسلمين وَاللَّهُ سَبِيعٌ) لأقوال عباده (عَلِيم) بأفعالهم. (وَصِ الاعْرَابٍ مَنْ يُومِنُ …
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.