Sūrat Al-Baqara · 2 : 231

Q 2:231 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَإِذَا اَوْ وَلَا وَمَنْ ذَٰلِكَ فَقَد وَلَا عَلَيْكُمْ وَمَآ عَلَيْكُم مِّنَ بِهِۦۖ أَنَّ

When ye have divorced women, and they have reached their term, then retain them in kindness or release them in kindness. Retain them not to their hurt so that ye transgress (the limits). He who doeth that hath wronged his soul. Make not the revelations of Allah a laughing-stock (by your behaviour), but remember Allah's grace upon you and that which He hath revealed unto you of the Scripture and of wisdom, whereby He doth exhort you. Observe your duty to Allah and know that Allah is Aware of all things 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, ¶78 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

إلى النكاح (إن ظَنَّا أَن يُقِيمَا حُدُودَ ألَّهِ وَتِلْكَ المذكورات (حُدُودُ اُ۬للَّهِ يُبَيِّنُهَا لِقَوْمࣲ يَعْلَمُونَۖ وَإِذَا طَلَّقْتُمُ اُ۬لنِّسَآءَ فَبَلَغْنَ أَجَلَهُنَّ) قاربن انقضاء عدتهن (بَأَمْسِكُوهُنّ) بَن تراجعوهن قبل انقضاء العدة (بِمَعْرُوبٍ) من غير ضرار (أوْ سَرِّحُوهنَّ بِمَعْرُوُما اتركوهن حتى تنقضي عدئُن. إذا انقضت العدة بانت (وَلَا تُمْسِكُوهُرَّ) بالرجمة (ضِرَاراً) لكن الرجعة للصلح فقط أما الرجعة لقصد الضرار فلا تفعلوها (لَتَعْتَدُوا عليهن بالإلجاء إلى الإفتداء والتطليق وتطويل الحبس (وَمَنْ يَبْعَلْ ذَلِكَ وَقَد ظَلَمَ نَبْسَةُ بتعريضها إلى عذاب اللّٰه (وَلَا تَتَّخِذُوٓاْ ءَايَٰتِ اِ۬للَّهِ هُزُؤاࣰۖ) مهزوءا بها بمخالفتها (وَاذْكَرُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ) بالإسلام (وَمَآ أَنزَلَ عَلَيْكُم مِنَ الْكِتَبِ) القرآن (وَالْحِكْتَةِ)

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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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