Q 20:58 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَّا نَحْنُ وَلَآ أَنتَ

But we surely can produce for thee magic the like thereof; so appoint a tryst between us and you, which neither we nor thou shall fail to keep, at a place convenient (to us both) — 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 Ṭāhā begins at vol. 6, p. 69 (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 33, ¶6 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 84 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

من أرض مصر ونزل إلى مدين قال له شعيب "لا تَحَفْ نَجَوْتَ مِ ألْقَوْمِ الظِّلِمِينَ" يعني أن ملك فرعون ما بلغ مدين ومدين في أرض الشام، إذاً هذه المملكة الصغيرة لا يَملك إلا هي، لا تحدثه نفسه أنه رب العالمين مع أنه لا يملك من الأرض إلا هذا القدر. ففرعون كان عارفا بالله ولكنه كان متكبرا جبارا طاغيا فجحد مع علمه. (قَالَ أَجِئْتَنَا لِتُخْرِجَنَا مِنَ اَرْضِنَا) مصر ويكون لك الملك فيها (بِسِحْرِكَ يَمُوسِى) رمى موسى اتهمه بهذه التهمة التي هي عادة أبناء الدنيا مع أهل اللّٰه يتهموتَهم بحب الرياسة وحب الملك والتغلب فقط (فَلَناتِيَنَّكَ بِسِحْرٍ مِثْلِهِ) يعارضه، وهذا ليغضب قومه القبط إذا أراهم أن موسى إنما جاء ليعزلهم من ملكهم ويأخذ هو الملك كلهم يتعصب لفرعون، فهذا مقصده الأول.

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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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