Sūrat Al-Nisāʾ · 4 : 76

Q 4:76 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اِ۬لذِينَ فِے وَالذِينَ فِے إِنَّ

Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of idols. So fight the minions of the devil. Lo! the devil's strategy is ever weak — 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, ¶98 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

عندك (وَلِيّأم يتولى أمورنا وَاجْعَل لَتَامِ لَدْنكَ نَصِيراً) يمنعنا منهم، وقد استجاب اللّٰه دعاءهم فيسر لبعضهم الخروج وبقي بعضهم إلى أن فتحت مكة وولى صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم غَتاب بن أسيد فأنصف مظلومهم من ظالمهم (الذِيسَ ءَامَنُواْ يَقَتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَالذِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُقَتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ الطَّغُوتُ الشيطان ( بَفَتِلُواْ أَوْلِيَآءَ الشَّيْطَبِ) أنصار دينه تغلبوهم لفوتكم بالله (إِنَّ كَيْدَ الشَّيْطَنِ) بالمؤمنين (كَانَ ضَعِيماً) واهيا ( ٱلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الذِينَ قِيلَ لَهُمْ كُفُّوَاْ أَيْدِيَكُمْ) عن قتال الكفار لما طلبوه بمكة (وَأَقِيمُواْ الصَّلَوةَ وَءَاتُواْ الزَّكَوَةٌ فَلَمَّا كُتِبَ عَلَيْهِمْ الْقِتَالُ إِذَا فَرِيقٌ مِنْهُمْ يَخْشَوْنَ النَّاسَ) الكفار (كَخَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ أَوَ اشَدَّ خَشْيَةَ)

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 11, ¶100 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

من خشيتهم له (وَقَالُواْ رَبَّنَا لِمَ كَتَبْتَ عَلَيْنَا ألْقِتَّالَ لَوْلَا أَخَرْتَتَا هلا أخرتنا ( إلَىّ أَجَلِ قَرِيبٌ قُلْ مَتَعُ الدُّنْيِا قَلِيلٌ وَالآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ لِمَ إتَّقِى) عقاب اللّٰه (وَلا تُظْلَمُونَ فَتِيلا) قدر قشرة النواة (آيْنَمَا تَكُونُواْ يُدْرِكِكُمْ ألْمَوْتُ وَلَوْ كُنتُمْ في بُروج مشَيًّة مرتفعة (وَان تَصِبْهَمْ ) اليهود (حَسَنَةٌ) خصب وسعة (يَقُولُواْ هَٰذِهِۦ مِنْ عِندِ اِ۬للَّهِۖ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ سَيِّئَةࣱ)

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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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