Q 11:27 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اُ۬لذِينَ مِن مَا إِلَّا وَمَا إِلَّا اَ۬لذِينَ هُمُۥٓ وَمَا لَكُمْ عَلَيْنَا مِن بَلْ

The chieftains of his folk, who disbelieved, said: We see thee but a mortal like us, and we see not that any follow thee save the most abject among us, without reflection. We behold in you no merit above us - nay, we deem you liars — 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 25, ¶35 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 196 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

من قومه ومَا نَرِيْكَ إِلاَّ بَشَراً مِثْلَنَا يا نوح لا فضل لك علينا حيث تكون نبيا مرسلا ونحن لسنا بأنبياء وأنت بشر مثلنا فقط. ألقوا ثلاث شُبَهِ: الشبهة الأولى ما نراك إلا بشرا مثلنا طووَمَا نَرِيْكَ إتَّبَعَكَ إِلاَّ الذِينَ هُمُوَ أَرَاذِلْتَا وأيضا لو كنت نبيا لأتبعك الأكابر والرؤساء، ولكن ما رأيناك اتبعك إلا أسافلنا، الفقراء والحاكة والأساكفة، وهؤلاء ليسوا بشيء بَادِي الرَّأْي وهذا يراه الإنسان من غير تفكر، هذه هي الشبهة الثانية (وَمَا نرى لَكُمْ عَلَيْنَا مِ قَصْلٍ ما رأينا عندكم فضلا في الخلق ولا في العقل ولا في أي شيء، كيف تكون نبيا ونحن لسنا بأنبياء؟ (بَل نَطَتُكُمْ كَذِيِينَ) هذا كلام الكفار، شبهة إبليس الأولى «مَا نَر۪يٰكَ إِلَّا بَشَراࣰ مِّثْلَنَا وَمَا نَر۪يٰكَ اَ۪تَّبَعَكَ إِلَّا اَ۬لذِينَ هُمُۥٓ أَرَاذِلُنَا» «وَمَا نَر۪يٰ لَكُمْ عَلَيْنَا مِن فَضْلِۢ» فتستحقون الإتباع منا، «بَلْ نَظْنُّكُمْ كَذِبِينٌ» في دعوى الرسالة (قَالَ يَقَوْمِ) هو يرد عليهم وأرِّيْتُمُ ) أخبروني …

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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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