Q 11:109 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فَلَا فِے مِّمَّا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِۖ مَا إِلَّا كَمَا مِّن وَإِنَّا

So be not thou in doubt concerning that which these (folk) worship. They worship only as their fathers worshipped aforetime. Lo! we shall pay them their whole due unabated — 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 Hūd begins at vol. 4, p. 193 (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 26, ¶33 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

من الجحيم إلى الزمهرير. والحق أن أهل الجنة خالدون فيها أبداكما وصف القرآن وأهل النار خالدون فيها أبداكما وصف القرآن. وأهل الجنة سوف يستمرون في الجنة في التنعم والترقي في النعم حتى يصلوا إلى حالة تشبه حالتهم في الأزل، وأهل النار يبقون في الامتحانات والعذاب حتى يصلوا إلى حالة تشبه حالتهم في الأزل، عندما تجلى الأزل في الأبد كنا في علم اللّٰه في الأزل كما كنا في الدنيا، وكما سنكون في الجنة سنرجع إلى تلك الحالة أخيرا فيكون الأبد مرآة الأزل ويكون الباقي هو اللّه تبارك وتعالى "هُوَ ألاَوَّلُ وَالْآَخِرُ والظَّهِرَ وَالْبَاطِنَ" لابد أن اسمه الآخر يتجلى آخر كل شيء مع خلود أهل الجنة في الجنة وخلود أهل النار في النار (فَلاَ تَكّ) يا محمد (فِي مِرْيَةِ) شك (مِمَّا يَعْبُدُ هَؤْلَاءِ) من الأصنام، إنا نعذبهم كما عذبنا من قبلهم، وهذا تسلية للنبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم (مَا يَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا كَمَا يَعْبُدُ ءَابَآؤُهُم) أي كعبادتهم (مِن قَبْلَ) وقد عذبناهم فكيف بهم (وَإِنَّ لَمُوَفّهُم) مثلهم …

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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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