Sūrat Al-Ḥajj · 22 : 78

Q 22:78 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فِے هُوَ وَمَا عَلَيْكُمْ فِے مِنْ إِبْرَٰهِيمَۖ هُوَ مِن وَفِے هَٰذَا عَلَيْكُمْ عَلَي هُوَ

And strive for Allah with the endeavour which is His right. He hath chosen you and hath not laid upon you in religion any hardship; the faith of your father Abraham (is yours). He hath named you Muslims of old time and in this (Scripture), that the messenger may be a witness against you, and that ye may be witnesses against mankind. So establish worship, pay the poor-due, and hold fast to Allah. He is your Protecting friend. A blessed Patron and a blessed Helper 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-Ḥajj begins at vol. 6, p. 143 (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 34, ¶149 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 122 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

اختاركم لدينه (وَمَا جَعَلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِى الدِّيِ مِنْ حَرَجٌ) ضيق بأن سهله عند الضرورات، دين النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم يسر، كالقصر إذا سافر، والتيمم إذا عدم الماء، أكل الميتة إذا فقد الحلال، والفطر للمرض والسفر في الصوم، كل هذا تسهيل من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى الأمة محمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم (مِلَّةَ أَبِيكُمُ) الزموا ملة أبيكم (إِبْرَهِيمٌ هُوَ اللّه (سَمّ۪يٰكُمُ اُ۬لْمُسْلِمِينَ مِن قَبْلُ) إن اللّه سمى أمة محمد المسلمين قبل هذا الكتاب، في كتبه المنزلة قبل القرآن أن أمة محمد هم المسلمون (وَمِي هَذَا) القرآن (لِيَكُونَ ألرَّسُولُ شَهِيداً عَلَيْكُمْ) يوم القيامة أنه بلغكم (وَتَكُونُوا) أنتم (شَهَدَآءَ عَلَى التَّاس) أن رسلهم بَلَّغتهم. أول ما يحاسِب اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى القلم1، يقول الحق للقلم: هل بلغت للوح ما أمرتك بإبلاغه؟ يقول: نعم بلغتُ، ويقول للوح: هل بلّغ لك القلم؟ يقول اللوح: نعم بلّغ لي القلم. يقول للوح: هل بلغت لجبريل ما أمرتك بتبليغه له؟ يقول: بلغت لجبريل. يقول لجبريل: هل بلغك

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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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