Forbidden unto you (for food) are carrion and blood and swineflesh, and that which hath been dedicated unto any other than Allah, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the dead through falling from a height, and that which hath been killed by (the goring of) horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which ye make lawful (by the death-stroke), and that which hath been immolated unto idols. And (forbidden is it) that ye swear by the divining arrows. This is an abomination. This day are those who disbelieve in despair of (ever harming) your religion; so fear them not, fear Me! This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed My favour unto you, and have chosen for you as religion al-Islam. Whoso is forced by hunger, not by will, to sin: (for him) lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful — 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-Māʾida begins at vol. 3, p. 33(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 13, ¶82 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
أن بغض قوم وآن صَدُّوكُمْ عَرِ اِلْمَسْجِدِ اِلْحَرَامِ أَن تَعْتَدْواْ) حتى كفار قريش الذين منعوكم عن البيت الحرام لا تعتدوا عليهم بالقتل فيه ولاسيما غيرهم ( وَتَعَاوَنُواْ عَلَى ألْبِرِّ فعل ما أمرتم به وَالتَّقْوِى) بترك ما هُيتم عنه وَلا تَعَاوَنُوا فيه ( عَلَى الاثْمِ) المعاصي (وَالْعَدْوَانِ) التعدي في حدود اللّٰه (وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهُ) خافوا عقابه بأن تطيعوه (إِنَّ اللَّهَ شَدِيدٌ الْعِقَابِ) لمن خالفه حَرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ الْمَيْتَةُ) المحرمات من الطعام هذه: أكل الميتة حرام، ما مات بنفسه وَالدَّمْ) المسفوح، الدم الذي يخرج حالة الذبح ( وَلَحْمُ الْخِنزِيرِ) حرام، ذبح أو لم يذبح (وَمَآ أهِلَّ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ بِهِ،) بأن ذبح على اسم غيره. الذبح باسم اللّٰه فقط، لا يجزئ باسم غير اللّه حتى ذِكر الرسول محمد عند الذبح حرام (وَالْمُنْخَنِفَةُ) الميتة خنقا، فإذا اختنقت بقرة أو شاة فماتت فهي ميتة والْمَوْفُوذَةُ المقتولة ضربا إذا ضربت بعصا فسقطت ميتة فلا تؤكل ( وَالْمُتَرَدِّيَةُ الساقطة من …
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 الصوفيةtafsīr
rev. July 2018 · Arabic · Question 17 · tr. Saʿīd Simone Nardella & Adnan Wood-Smith · answered in writing
After Allah (t.) said, “Today I have perfected your deen for you, I have completed My blessing upon you, and I am pleased for you to have Islam as your deen” (Qur’an 5:3), the immaculate shari’ah was sealed—no one was to add or subtract anything from it.
Muḥammad al-Mishrī, not Shaykh Ibrāhīm — the school reading, in a responsum. Question 17.
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.