Q 25:31 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَكَذَٰلِكَ مِّنَ

Even so have We appointed unto every prophet an opponent from among the guilty; but Allah sufficeth for a Guide and 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-Furqān begins at vol. 7, p. 18 (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 36, ¶71 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يقدر أن يقرأها في المصحف، هذا ربما لا يقع «إتَّخَذُواْ هَذَا الْقُرْءَانَ مَهْجُورًا» متروكا (وَكَذَلِكَ)) كما جعلنا لك عدوا من مشركي قومك (جَعَلْنَا لِكْلِّ نَ) قبلك ( عَدْواً مِنَ الْمُجْرِمِينَ) المشركين فاصبر كما صبروا (وَكَفَىٰ بِرَبِّكَ هَادِياً) لك ( وَنَصِيرا) لك على أعدائك. عادة اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى أنه لا ينصب خليفة إلا ونصب له عدوا من الأكابر لأن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى تحلى لآدم وجعله خليفة "إِنِّي جَاعِلٌ فِي الأَرْضِ خَلِيقَةً هو آدم فخرج إبليس من جهة الشمال وصار عدوا لآدم، هذا العدو بسببه رفعت درجة آدم حتى وصل إلى ما وصل إليه، والعدو يزداد سقوطا وهلاكا وبعدا من رحمة اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، لأن من حارب ولي اللّه حاربه الله1. وجعل لنوح كنعان ولده صار كافرا يعادي نوحا، وجعل لإبراهيم نمرود بن كنعان، وجعل لموسى فرعون، وجعل لعيسى اليهود وططيانوس 2 وقومه، وجعل لمحمد أبا جهل بن هشام. وكذلك لكل صدّيق، العلماء ورثة الأنبياء 3 لابد لكل صدّيق

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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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