Q 2:211 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِسْرَآءِيلَ كَمَ مِّنَ وَمَنْ مِنۢ مَا فَإِنَّ

Ask of the Children of Israel how many a clear revelation We gave them! He who altereth the grace of Allah after it hath come unto him (for him), lo! Allah is severe in punishment — 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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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 6, ¶15 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

بجميع أجزائه يفسره حديث (المسلم من سلم المسلمون من لسانه ويده)[11] أو خطاب لكل إنسان أن يُدخِل جميع أعضائه الإسلام، يدخل في الإسلام بكافة أعضائه فلا يمشي إلا إلى ما أمر اللّٰه به، ولا يبطش بيديه إلا بأمر الله، ولا ينظر بعينيه إلا يأمر الله، ولا يتكلم بلسانه ولا ياكل في جوفه ولا يتناول شهوة فرجه إلا موافقا لأمر اللّه تبارك وتعالى، هذا هو الدخول في الإسلام كافة. هذا دخول النفس، والقلب يتخلى عن جميع الأخلاق الذميمة ويتحلى بجميع الأخلاق الحميدة، والروح يترك الإلتفات إلى غير اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، والسر يفنى في ذات اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى ولا يرى غيره، هذا هو الدخول في الإسلام كافة (بَإِن زَلَلْتُم) ملتم عن الدخول في جميعه مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا جَآءَتْكُمُ الْبَيِّنَتُ) الحجج الظاهرة على أنه حق (فَاعْلَمُواْ أَنَّ اللَّةَ عَزِيزٌ) لا يعجزه شيء عن إنتقامه منكم (حَكِيمُ في صنعه (هَلْ يَنظُرُونَ) ما ينتظرون أي تاركوا الدخول في الإسلام كافة (إِلَّآ أَنْ يَّاتِيَهُمُ اُ۬للَّهُ) أمر اللّه تبارك وتعالى فِى …

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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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