Allah ordained this only as a message of good cheer for you, and that thereby your hearts might be at rest - Victory cometh only from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise — 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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loci in the corpus
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distinct acts
1956 – 1964
attested span
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This verse across his life
Each mark is one work in which Shaykh Ibrāhīm engages this verse, placed by date of composition. Hollow marks are loci we know of but cannot yet show.
1960
March–April 1956al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya
1964Fī riyāḍ
Exegesis of the verse
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 9, ¶85 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 79 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
إذا عرفوا أن الملائكة تقاتل معهم يبشرهم هذا (وَلِتَطْمَيِنَّ) تسكن ( قُلُوبُكُم بِةٌ) فلا تجزع من كثرة العدو وقلتكم (وَمَا النَّصْرُ إِلاَّ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ) وفي الحقيقة النصر لا يأتي إلا من عند اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى (الْعَزِيزِ الْحَكِيمِ) ليس بالملائكة بل من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، النصر لا يأتي إلا من اللّه فلا تجد في القرآن كلمة النصر إلا والنصر من عند اللّٰه حتى يعرف العبد أن لا ناصر إلا اللّٰه "إِنْ يَنصُرْكُمْ أللَّهُ وَلا غَالِبَ لَكُم "نَصْرمِّنَ أْللَّهِ وًتْحَ قَرِيبٌ" "إِذَا جَآءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ" لا تجد النصر الحقيقي إلا وهو مع اللّٰه "وَلَيَنصْرَدَّ اللَّهُ مَنْ يَنصُرُة " "إِن تَنصُرُواْ اللَّهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ"، لا ناصر إلا الله، «وَمَا النَّصْرُ إِلاَّ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَكِيمِ» فعل ذلك (لِيَفْطَعَ) ليهلك (طَرَباً مِسَ ألذِيرَ كَبَرْوا) بالقتل والأسر (أَوْ يَكْبِتَهُمْ) يذلهم بالهزيمة ( يَنفَلِبُوا يرجعوا خَابِبِيَ) لم ينالوا ما راموا. ولما كسرت رَباعية الرسول …
A single interpretive equivalence, often a received one, rather than commentary proper.
al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya al-maʾkhūdha min al-qalam al-Sīrīnbiyya
الحكم القطبية المأخوذة من القلم السيرينبيةgloss
Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 6 · held at students’ request
Not yet ingested. wa-mā ṣabruka illā bi-llāh; wa-mā l-naṣru illā min ʿind Allāh; in yanṣurkumu llāhu fa-lā ghāliba lakum. 'Nowhere in the Qurʾān is victory mentioned without God being made its agent.'
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.