Q 11:29 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَآ عَلَيْهِ اِنَ إِلَّا عَلَي وَمَآ أَنَا اِ۬لذِينَ إِنَّهُم وَلَٰكِنِّيَ

And O my people! I ask of you no wealth therefor. My reward is the concern only of Allah, and I am not going to thrust away those who believe - Lo! they have to meet their Lord! - but I see you a folk that are ignorant — 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, ¶37 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 196 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(وَنتُمْ لَهَا كَرِهُونَ) لا نقدر على ذلك. رد عليهم بأنه إذا أتاه نبوة من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى وأعمى اللّٰه بصائرهم حتى لم يبصروا فليس له قوة على أن يجبرهم على قبولها (وَيَٰقَوْمِ لَآ أَسْـَٔلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ مَالاًۖ اِنَ اَجْرِيَ إِلَّا عَلَي اَ۬للَّهِۖ) رد شبهة أخرى بقوله: إن رأيتموني فقيرا ليس عندي مال فأنا لا أطلب منكم شيئا أبدا «اتَ آجْرِيَ إِلاَّ عَلَى اللَّهِ» لا تخافوا من فقري تظنون أني أكلفكم رزقي أنا رزقي على اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى. ورد على الشبهة الثالثة (وَمَا أَنَا بِطَارِدِ إِلذِينَ ءَامَنُوا الأراذل الذين أشرتم إلى أني أطردهم ما أنا بطاردهم ( إِنَّهُم مُلَقُوا رَبِِّهِمْ) بالبعث فيجازيهم ويأخذ لهم ممن ظلمهم وطردهم (وَلَكِنِّيَ أَرِيْكُمْ قَوْماً تَجْهَلُونَ) ولكن الذي أعلم أنكم جهلة لا تعلمون عاقبة أمركم، عمي البصائر. الكفار ما رأيت أشد من حماقتهم، إنسان كامل عاقل متصف بجميع الكمالات لا يستحق الرسالة والاتباع،

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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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