But nay, by thy Lord, they will not believe (in truth) until they make thee judge of what is in dispute between them and find within themselves no dislike of that which thou decidest, and submit with full submission — 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.
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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 11, ¶81 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
فيما يأمر به ويحكم (بإِذْنِ اللَّهِ) بأمره (وَلَوَ أَنَّهُمْ إِذْ ظَلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ) بتحاكمهم إلى الطاغوت (جَاءَوكَ) تائبين جَاسْتَغْبَرُواْ اللَّهَ وَاسْتَغْبَرَ لَهُمْ الرَّسُول فيه التفات ( لَوَجَدُواْ أللَّهَ تَوَّابا عليهم ( رَحِيما) بهم فَلاَ وَرَبِّكَ لا يُومِنُونَ قسم {حَتَّىٰ يُحَكِّمُوكَ مِيمَا شَجَرَ بَيْنَهَمْ لا يكون المسلم مسلما إلا إذا حكّم الشرع فيما جرى بينه وبين النلس (ثُمَّ لَا يَجِدُواْ فِےٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ حَرَجاࣰ مِّمَّا قَضَيْتَ وَيُسَلِّمُواْ تَسْلِيماࣰۖ) هذا علامة الإسلام (لا يؤمن أحدكم حتى يكون هواه تبعا لما جئت به)1 الإنسان يمتثل أوامر القرآن، ويمتثل سنة النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، قال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: يأتي على الناس زمان لا يصلح الملك إلا بالقتل والتجبر، ولا توجد المحبة إلا باتباع هوى الناس، ولا يوجد المال عند الأغنياء إلا إذا تذلل العبد إليهم، الملوك متكبرون، والأغنياء يبخلون ويتجبرون، والناس لا يحبون إلا من اتبع هواهم، فمن أدرك ذلك الزمان وصبر …
Not Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s words. Students and successors reading the same verse — kept below and apart, because a school’s reading is evidence of transmission, not of what the master said.
Muḥammad al-Mishrīالقنابل اليدوية في الذب عن طريق الصوفيةproof-text
rev. July 2018 · Arabic · Question 1 · tr. Saʿīd Simone Nardella & Adnan Wood-Smith · answered in writing
The nafs and the ruh only come into agreement in the heart of the perfect wali, to whom they become submissive; the Iman of the nafs and the ruh will never be complete until the two of them have the wali decide between them whenever they dispute, as indicated by the ayah, “Nay, by your Lord, they do not fully believe until they have you decide between them in whatever disputes arise between them” (Qur’an 4:65).
Muḥammad al-Mishrī, not Shaykh Ibrāhīm — the school reading, in a responsum. Question 1.
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.