Q 4:95 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَّا مِنَ أُوْلِے فِے عَلَي عَلَي

Those of the believers who sit still, other than those who have a (disabling) hurt, are not on an equality with those who strive in the way of Allah with their wealth and lives. Allah hath conferred on those who strive with their wealth and lives a rank above the sedentary. Unto each Allah hath promised good, but He hath bestowed on those who strive a great reward above the sedentary — 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 12, ¶13 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 198 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أو نحو ذلك. هذا ينبهك على عظمة العلم. كلمتان فقط سافر جبريل بسببهما مسافة ألفي سنة، بيننا والسماء الدنيا مسافة خمسمائة عام، والسماء غلظها مسافة خمسمائة عام 1، وكان القرآن في السماء الدنيا منذ أنزل ليلة القدر، فذهب مسافة ألف ورجع مسافة ألف لكلمتين فقط هما " غَيْرَ أَوْلِي الضَّرَرِ" فلهذا لما طلب الرشيد من الإمام مالك أن يعلمه يحدثه الحديث وهو ملك جالس على سريره قال له مالك: العلم يؤتى ولا يأتي، لابد أن تأتي بنفسك. فلما جاءه ونُصب له الكرسي قال له مالك لا بد أن تجلس على الأرض متواضعا قبل أن أعلمك ففعل فعلّمه. (فَضَّلَ اَ۬للَّهُ اُ۬لْمُجَٰهِدِينَ بِأَمْوَٰلِهِمْ وَأَنفُسِهِمْ عَلَي اَ۬لْقَٰعِدِينَ) لضرر ( دَرَجَةً فضيلة لاستوائهما في النية وزيادة المجاهدين بالمباشرة ( وَكّلا وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الْحُسْنِىُ) الجنة. لما قال «لاَّ يَسْتَوِى الْقَعِدُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُومِنِسَ غَيْرَ أوْلِي الضَّرَرِ وَالْمُجَاهِدُونَ» ظن القاعدون أنهم ليس لهم أجر أصلا، فلهذا قال «وَكُلًّا» من الفريقين

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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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