Q 3:178 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَلَا اَ۬لذِينَ أَنَّمَا لَهُمْ إِنَّمَا لَهُمْ وَلَهُمْ

And let not those who disbelieve imagine that the rein We give them bodeth good unto their souls. We only give them rein that they may grow in sinfulness. And theirs will be a shameful doom — 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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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 10, ¶13 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 124 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ألذِينَ يُسَرِعُونَ فِى الْكُمْرُ يقعون فيه سريعا بنصرته وهم أهل مكة أو المنافقون لا تهتم لكفرهم (إِنَّهُمْ لَنْ يَضْرُّواْ أَللَّهَ شَءا)) بفعلهم وإنما يضرون أنفسهم {يَرِيدُ أَللَّهُ أَلاَّ يَجْعَلٌ لَهُمْ حَظَّاه نصيبا (مِ الآَخِرَة) الجنة فلذلك خذلهم (وَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ عَظِيمٌ) في النار والَ ألذِينَ إشْتَرَوْاْ ألْكَفْرَ بِالإيمَلِ أخذوه بدله (لَنْ يَضرُّواْ اللَّهَ) بكفرهم (شَيْئَاً وَلَهَمْ عَذَابُ الِيم مؤلم (وَلا يَحْسِبَىَّ الذِيرَ كَبَرْوَا أَنَّمَا نَمْلِ إملاؤنا (لَهُمْ) أي تأخيرنا لهم بتطويل الأعمار خير لهم (خَيْرٌ لَانجسِهِمّة إِنَّمَا نَمْلِ نمهل (لَهُمْ لِيَزْدَادُواْ إِثْمَا) بكثرة المعاصي (وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مُهِينٌ)، ذو إهانة، كانوا يعمرون تسعمائة سنة، ثمانمائة سنة حتى يكونوا كالأقواس من طول العمر 1، وذلك في الكفار ليس بخير لأنفسهم ولذلك روي عن ابن مسعود (ما من نفس برة ولا فاجرة إلا والموت خير لها، إن كانت برة فما عند اللّه خير للأبرار، وإن كانت فاجرة فقد قال اللّٰه …

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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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