Q 10:15 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَإِذَا عَلَيْهِمُۥٓ اَ۬لذِينَ لَا هَٰذَآ أَوْ مَا لِيَ أَنُ مِن إِنَ إِلَّا مَا إِلَيَّۖ إِنِّيَ إِنْ

And when Our clear revelations are recited unto them, they who look not for the meeting with Us say: Bring a Lecture other than this, or change it. Say (O Muhammad): It is not for me to change it of my accord. I only follow that which is inspired in me. Lo! if I disobey my Lord I fear the retribution of an awful Day — Pickthall

Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse (d. 1975) read the whole Qurʾān aloud at Medina Baye over fifty-six sessions between ẓuhr and ʿaṣr in Ramaḍān 1383/1964, and his students wrote those sessions down as Fī Riyāḍ al-Tafsīr. He comes back to the same āya elsewhere — in the fatwās, the Ḥikam, the poetry — decades apart. About the tafsīr →

In the printed edition: Sūrat Yūnus begins at vol. 4, p. 158 (Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)

The āya above is Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ, the rasm of the printed edition. The root behind each underlined word comes from a Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim corpus, realigned to this Warsh text word by word; 125 of the 6,236 āyāt differ in word count between the two riwāyāt, and those were aligned rather than assumed. A word carries no underline where the corpus supplies no root. Lexicon entries are a reading aid and carry no page reference; the edition does not cite them. Page references elsewhere on this site 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.

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 52, ¶120 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

"مَا يَكُونُ لِىَ أَنْ أبَدِّلَهُو صِ تِلْفَآءِىْ نَمْسِىً" أنته أهل أنطاكيا الذين حل بهم موسى والخضر ضيوفا فأبوا أن يضيفوهما فلما نزلت "جَأَبَوَاْ آنْ يُضَيِّبُوهُمَا" جاءوا بجميع أموالهم إلى النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أنهم يشترون منه نقطة واحدة ليكون فأتوا أن يضيفوهما ويعطوا النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم تلك الأموال فامتنع النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم "فُلْ مَا يَكُونْ لِىَ أَنْ ابَدِّلَهُ و صِ تِلْفَآءِىْ نَمْسِىّ" من لا يزيد نقطة واحدة ليس يزيد تلك الجمل (فَمَا مِنكُم مِّنَ اَحَدٍ عَنْهُ حَٰجِزِينَۖ) ولو وقع النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم في هذا تقديرا وأهلكه اللّٰه لا يوجد أحد يمنعه من عذاب اللّٰه ( وَإِنَّهُ ٨ القرآن لَتَذْكِرَةٌ لِلْمُتَّفِيلَ))، القرآن كلما قرئ على لمسلمين زاد إيمانهم، لا نتفرق من مجلس القرآن ويرجع كلنا على حاله الذي جاء به، بل

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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. Beyond Fī Riyāḍ al-Tafsīr, 156 āyāt have so far been indexed from his other writings — the Ḥikam, the fatwās, Kāshif al-Ilbās, theQanābīl, the Tafsīr Maʿānī cassettes. A verse with nothing under this heading has not been searched in them and found wanting; it has not been searched.

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