Q 13:37 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَكَذَٰلِكَ وَلَئِنِ بَعْدَ مِنَ مَا لَكَ مِنَ مِنْ وَلَا

Thus have We revealed it, a decisive utterance in Arabic; and if thou shouldst follow their desires after that which hath come unto thee of knowledge, then truly wouldst thou have from Allah no protecting friend nor defender — 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 Al-Raʿd begins at vol. 5, p. 61 (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 28, ¶32 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 70 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

بلغة العرب تحكم به بين الناس (وَلَئِنِ اِ۪تَّبَعْتَ أَهْوَآءَهُم)، الكفار فيما يدعونك إليه من ملتهم فرضا (بَعْدَ مَا جَآءَكَ مِنَ اَ۬لْعِلْمِ) التوحيد (مَالَكَ مِنَ اَ۬للَّهِ مِنْ وَّلِيّٖ ) ناصر ( وَاقٖۖ وَلَقَدَ اَرْسَلْنَا رُسُلاٗ مِّن قَبْلِكَ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُمُۥٓ أَزْوَٰجاٗ وَذُرِّيَّةٗۖ ) نزلت هذه الآية لما عيروا المصطفى صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أنه لو كان نبيا لا شْتغل بالله عن النساء وهو كثير التزاويج له نساء كثيرة، هذا ليس بزاهد في الدنيا، إنما لو كان نبيا لترك النساء واشتغل بعبادة اللّه تبارك وتعالى [1]، بيّن الحق أنه بعث رسلا قبل محمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وأعطاهم أزواجا وذرية وأنت مثلهم، أعطى لداود مائة امرأة ولسليمان ألفاً: ثلاثمائة حرة وسبعمائة جارية، وهذا كان حلالا في شرعهم، والنبي صلى اللّه عليه وسلم جمع بين إحدى عشرة حرة وكان عنده أربع من الجواري، والنبي صلى اللّه عليه وسلم أعطي من القوة ما لم يعط للرجال فلهذا طاف على نسائه في ليلة واحدة[2] وهذا لقوة نوره الرباني. (حُبب …

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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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