Q 3:117 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مَا فِے هَٰذِهِ فِيهَا وَمَا وَلَٰكِنَ

The likeness of that which they spend in this life of the world is as the likeness of a biting, icy wind which smiteth the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves, and devastateth it. Allah wronged them not, but they do wrong themselves 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 Āl ʿImrān begins at vol. 2, p. 34 (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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Exegesis of the verse

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 9, ¶65 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 79 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

كَبَرُواْ لَى تُعْنِيَ) تدفع ( عَنْهُمُوَ أَمْوَلَهُمْ وَلَا أَوْلَدْهُم مِ أللَّهِ) من عذابه ( شَيْتَا) خصن هنا بالذكر لأن الإنسان يدفع عن نفسه تارة بماله وتارة يستعين بأولاده (وَأُؤْلِّيِكَ أَصْحَنَ أَلبَارِهُمْ مِيهَا خَالِدُونٌ مَثَلُ مَا يُنِعِفُونَ) الكفار ( هَذِهِ الْحَيَوَةِ ٱلدَّنْيَا في عداوة النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أو صدقة ونحوها (كَمَثَلِ رِيحࣲ فِيهَا صِرٌّ) حر أو برد شديد ( أصَابَتْ حَرْكَ قَوْمٍ زرع قوم ( ظَلَموا أَنمسَهُمْ) بالكفر ( أَهْلَكَتْهُ ) فلم ينتفعوا به فكذلك نفقاتُه ذاهبة لا ينتفعون بها. (وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ اُ۬للَّهُۖ وَلَٰكِنَ اَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَۖ) شرط العمل المقبول أن يكون العامل مؤمنا بالله قاصدا وجه اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، أما الكفار إذا عملوا شيئا من القربات كالصدقات وصلة الرحم مثالها كما قال في الآية "كَمَئَلِ رِيحُ

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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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