Sūrat Al-Baqara · 2 : 123

Q 2:123 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَّا عَن وَلَا مِنْهَا وَلَا وَلَا هُمْ

And guard (yourselves) against a day when no soul will in aught avail another, nor will compensation be accepted from it, nor will intercession be of use to it; nor will they be helped — 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-Baqara begins at vol. 1, p. 54 (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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Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 5, ¶35 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 120 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

بالكتاب المؤتى بأن يحرفه (بَأوْلَبِكَ هُمُ الْخَسِرُون) لمصيرهم إلى النار المؤبدة عليهم (يَبَنِتِ إِسْرَآءِيلَ اذْكُرُواْ نِعْمَتِيَ التِىّ أَنْعَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأَنِّي وَضَّلْتُكُمْ عَلَى الْعَلَمِينَ) تقدم مثله، دعا الحق بني إسرائيل وذكرهم بالنعم التي أنعم على آبائهم وذكرهم بالفضل الذي أعطى لآبائهم ليتذكروا ليشكروا تلك النعمة حتى يؤمنوا ويستقيموا. الفرق بين أمة محمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم "خَيْرَ أمَّةٍ احْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاس" وبني إسرائيل، هو أن بني إسرائيل ذكرهم اللّه فضله فتكبروا وغضبوا فهلكوا لما رأوا فضلهم، وأمة محمد "قُل بِعَصْلِ إلَّهِ وَبِرَحْتَيتِهِ، بَبِذَلِكَ جَلْيَفْرَحُوا، نحن إذا تذكرنا فضل اللّه تبارك وتعالى قوي رجاؤنا فيه، وهم إذا تذكروا فضلهم تكبروا يقع لهم مثل ما وقع لإبليس (وَاتَّقُواْ يَوْما لاَ تَجْزِي) تغني (ونَفْشُ عَى نَفْس شَيْئَا وَلاَ يَقْبَلُ مِنْهَا عَدْلٌ فداء (وَلا تَنْجَعُهَا شَمَعَةٌ وَلاَ هَمْ يَنصَرَونَ كه وهو يوم القيامة، خوفوا من ذلك اليوم فإن الإنسان …

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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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