Q 2:220 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فِے عَنِ لَّهُمْ وَإِن مِنَ وَلَوْ إِنَّ

Upon the world and the Hereafter. And they question thee concerning orphans. Say: To improve their lot is best. And if ye mingle your affairs with theirs, then (they are) your brothers. Allah knoweth him who spoileth from him who improveth. Had Allah willed He could have overburdened you. Allah is Mighty, Wise — 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, ¶52 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

«وَيَسْئَلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلْيَتَابِى» (فَلِ إِصْلَحٌ لَهُمْ) في أموالهم بتنميتها ومداخلتكم (خَيْرَ) من ترك ذلك (وَإِن تُخَالِطُوهُمْ) تخلطوا نفقتكم بنفقتهم (بَإِخْوَانُكُمْ) فهم إخوانكم في الدين ومن شأن الأخ أن يخالط أخاه فلكم ذلك. للإنسان أن يجعل مال يتيمه في ماله ويحفظه له حتى إذا بلغ رشده يسلم له ماله ويأخذ منه نفقته وكسوته ويحسبها عليه وما بقي يسلمه له عندما يقوى ويبلغ رشده هذا هو الأصلح في شأن اليتامى (وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمْ الْمَبْسِدَ) لأموالهم عند المخالطة، من قصد الإفساد علمه اللّٰه (صَ الْمُصْلِحْ) ومن قصد الإصلاح أيضا علمه اللّٰه فيجازي كلا منهما (وَلَوْ شَآءَ اَ۬للَّهُ لَأَعْنَتَكُمُۥٓۖ) لضيق عليكم بشحريم المخالطة (إِنَّ اللَّهُ عَزِيزٌ) غالب على أمره ( حَكِيم ) في صنعه. ورد في فضائل

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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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