Q 2:213 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مَعَهُمُ فِيمَا فِيهِۖ وَمَا فِيهِ إِلَّا اَ۬لذِينَ مِنۢ مَا اُ۬لذِينَ لِمَا فِيهِ مِنَ مَنْ اِ۪لَيٰ

Mankind were one community, and Allah sent (unto them) prophets as bearers of good tidings and as warners, and revealed therewith the Scripture with the truth that it might judge between mankind concerning that wherein they differed. And only those unto whom (the Scripture) was given differed concerning it, after clear proofs had come unto them, through hatred one of another. And Allah by His Will guided those who believe unto the truth of that concerning which they differed. Allah guideth whom He will unto a straight path — 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, ¶17 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أهل مكة ( ٱلْحَيَوَةَ الدَّنْيا بالتمويه فأحبوها، كانوا يحبون الدنيا ويروهًا كل شيء، إذا وجدوا المال وجدوا ما أحبوا وظنوا أن كل شيء تم لهم فلا يلتفتون لأخراهم ولا إلى مولاهم (وَ يَسْخَرُونَ) هم بذلك يسخرون (صَ ألذِيسَ ءَامَنُوا) لفقرهم (وَ) يستهزئون بفقراء المسلمين (الذينَ إتَّقَوْا الشرك وهم هؤلاء (بَوْفَهُمْ يَوْمَ الْفِيَمَةٍ) وهؤلاء المساكين الذين يستهزئون بهم ويضحكون منهم يكونون فوقهم يوم القيامة في درجات الجنة وهم في الدرك الأسفل من النار (وَاللَّهُ يَرْزُفُ مَنْ يَشَآءُ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ) رزقا واسعا في الآخرة بخلاف الدنيا فإنّها محدودة وكل ما فيها محدود، والله تبارك وتعالى يرزق أولياءه رزقا بغير حساب، ذكر اللّٰه في هذه الآية أن أهل التقوى يكونون فوق الناس يوم القيامة وكل من رغب إلى هذه الفوقية فليقتد برسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم في ترك الدنيا وما فيها. الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أتِي بخزائن الأرض وجلبت إليه أخماس الغنائم وأهدته الملوك شرقا وغربا الأموال الطائلة وما أمسك …

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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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