Q 3:93 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِسْرَآءِيلَ إِلَّا مَا إِسْرَآءِيلُ عَلَيٰ مِن أَن اَ۬لتَّوْر۪يٰةُۖ بِالتَّوْر۪يٰةِ إِن

All food was lawful unto the Children of Israel, save that which Israel forbade himself, (in days) before the Torah was revealed. Say: Produce the Torah and read it (unto us) if ye are truthful — 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 9, ¶9 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 79 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الرب تبارك وتعالى: ماذا عملت لي؟ أما زهدك في الدنيا فاخترت الراحة لنفسك، وأما طاعتك لي فاخترت العز لنفسك، هل واليت في وليا قط أو عاديت في عدوا؟ إن كان والى وليا لله أو عادى عدوا لله فذلك هو العمل الذي يحببه إلى اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، ومن حاول الوصول إلى اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى وادعى المقامات بغير محبة أولياء اللّٰه فهو كاذب ولو أتى بعبادة الثقلين فإنما يضرب حديدا باردا. لابد من موالاة أولياء اللّه ومعاداة أعداء اللّٰه فيسلك بذلك سبيل إبراهيم كما سيذكر في الآية {وَمَا تُنعِفُواْ مِ شَءِ فَإِنَّ ألَهَ بِهِ عَلَيَ فيجازي عليه (كُلُّ اُ۬لطَّعَامِ كَانَ حِلّاࣰ لِّبَنِےٓ إِسْرَآءِيلَ) نزلت لما أتى اليهود وقالوا للرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم إنك تزعم أنك على ملة إبراهيم وكان إبراهيم لا يأكل لحوم الإبل وألبانها وأنت تأكلها، فقال لهم الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: أنشدكم بالله هل تعلمون أن يعقوب مرض مرضا شديدا فنذر إن شفاه اللّٰه من مرضه ليتركن أحب الطعام إليه وهو لحوم الإبل وأحب الشراب إليه وهو ألبان …

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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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