لَّنْ أَنْ وَلَا وَمَنْ عَنْ إِلَيْهِ
The Messiah will never scorn to be a slave unto Allah, nor will the favoured angels. Whoso scorneth His service and is proud, all such will He assemble unto Him — 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 Al-Nisāʾ begins at vol. 2, p. 146 (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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 13, ¶25 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
تقول عبدٌ لله، قال لهم الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: "لَنْ يَسْتَنكِفَ ٱلْمَسِيحُ أَنْ يَكُونَ عَبْداً
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 13, ¶58 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
يتكبر وبأنف (المسيخ أَن يَكُونَ عَبْدا لِلِ) لما قال نصارى نجران إن النبي صلى الّه على وسلم سب عيسى لأنه قال إنه عبد فقط وعيسى فوق ذلك، قال لهم الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: عيسى لن يستكف أن يكون عبدا له2 (وَلاَ ٱلْمَلْءِكَةَ اَلْمُقَرَبونَ) حن الملائكة عند اللّه لم يستنكفوا أن يكونوا عبيدا لله. صحيح أن عيسى روح تلابس بالجسم وغلبت روحانيته على جسمانيته، ولكن لما كان الملائكة الذين هم روحانيون صرفا ما لابسوا جسما لم يستنكفوا أن يكونوا عبيدا فمن باب أولى عيسى الذي له على كل حال جسم كأجسام البشر (وَمَنْ يَّسْتَنكِفْ عَنْ عِبَادَتِهِۦ وَيَسْتَكْبِرْ فَسَيَحْشُرُهُمُۥٓ إِلَيْهِ جَمِيعاࣰۖ) من تكبر أن يكون عبدا الله سيأتي يوم القيامة عبدا (قَأَمَّا ألذِيرَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ الصَّلِحَنِ قَيُوَقِّيهِمُ وَ أُجُورَهُمْ) ثواب أعمالهم (وَيَزِيدُهُم مِ قَضْلِهِ،) ما لا عين رأت ولا أذن سمعت ولا خطر على قلب بشر، اقرأوا إن شئتم "بَلا تَعْلَمْ نَمْسٌ مَا أُخْصِىَ لَهُم مِ فُرَّةِ أَعْيِ جَزَآءٍ الْ
Read in context →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.