Q 3:4 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مِن إِنَّ اَ۬لذِينَ لَهُمْ ذُو

Aforetime, for a guidance to mankind; and hath revealed the Criterion (of right and wrong). Lo! those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah, theirs will be a heavy doom. Allah is Mighty, Able to Requite (the wrong) — 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 7, ¶74 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

محمدا ولا القرآن لأنه ليس لهم حجة. الأنبياء جاءوا بكتب من عند اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، والذي قواهم حتى قبلنا أن هذا أتى من عند اللّٰه المعجزات، ومحمد أتى بكتاب من عنا اللّٰه وأتى بمعجزات باهرات، إذاً كيف يومَن بنبي ويُكفَر بمحمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وله من المعجزات ما ليس لهم ولم يدع إلا كتابا جاءه من عند اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، فلهذا أخبرهم أنه هو الذي أنزل هذا الكتاب كما أنزل التوراة والإنجيل من قبل { وَأَنزَلَ الْجُرْفَان) بمعنى الكتب الفارقة بين الحق والباطل أو المعجزات في الثلاثة. فاذاً إما أن يُصدق بالجميع أو لكفر بالجميع أعاذنا اللّه من ذلك. (إِنَّ اَ۬لذِينَ كَفَرُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِ اِ۬للَّهِ لَهُمْ عَذَابࣱ شَدِيدࣱۖ وَاللَّهُ عَزِيزࣱ) غالب على أمره فلا يمنعه شيء من إنجاز وعده ووعيده ذُو إنتِفَام عقوبة شديدة عن عصاه للَّ ألَّه لَا يَحْمِى عَلَيْهِ شَيءٍ) كائن (مِ الأَرْضِ وَلا مِي السَّمَاءِ) لعلمه بما يقع في العالم من كلى وجزئي ( هَوَ ألِذِ يُصَوِّرْكُمْ مِ الأَرْحَامِ كَيْفَ يَشَاةٍ) كما …

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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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