Q 5:49 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

۞وَأَنُ بِمَآ وَلَا أَنْ عَنۢ مَآ إِلَيْكَۖ فَإِن اَنَّمَا أَنْ وَإِنَّ مِّنَ

So judge between them by that which Allah hath revealed, and follow not their desires, but beware of them lest they seduce thee from some part of that which Allah hath revealed unto thee. And if they turn away, then know that Allah's Will is to smite them for some sin of theirs. Lo! many of mankind are evil-livers — 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 14, ¶62 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 49 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يضلوك ( عَنْ بَعْضٍ مَا أَنْزَلَ اللّه إِلَيْكٌ فَإِن تَوَلَوْا ) عن الحكم المنزل وأرادوا غيره (فَاعْلَم أنَّمَا يْرِيدَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يُصِيبَهُم) بالعقوبة في الدنيا (يبَعْضِ ذُنّوبِهِمْ التي أتوها ومنها التولي ويجازبهم على جميعها في الأخرى (وَإِنَّ كَثِيراࣰ مِّنَ اَ۬لنَّاسِ لَفَٰسِقُونَۖ) خارجون عن الدين (أَبَحْكُمَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ يَبْغُونَ) أيبتغون يطلبون حكم الجاهلية من المداهنة والميل (وَمَنَ اَحْسَنُ مِنَ اَ۬للَّهِ حُكْماࣰ) لا أحسن حكما من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى لِفَوْمِ) أي عند قوم يُوفِنُونَ) به، خصوا بالذكر لأنهم الذين يتدبرونه ويَأَيُّهَا ألذِيرَ ءَامَنُوا لا تَتَّخِذُواْ الْيَهُودَ وَالنَّصَرِيّ) كان المنافق عبدالله بن أبي بن سلول يذهب يصادق اليهود والنصارى وإذا نهي عن ذلك يقول:

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 14, ¶63 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 49 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

تأتي الدوائر فنحتاج إليهم يوما ما ويَأَيُّهَا ألذِيسَ ءَامَنُواْ لاَ تَتَّخِذُواْ الْيَهُودَ وَالنَّصَرِى أَوْلِيَآءَ توالونهم وتوادونهم (بَعْضُهُم أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضِ) الكفار متحدون في الكفر، الكفر كله ملة واحدة، كل الكفار اتفقوا على الكفر وكلهم ضد المسلمين، بعضهم أولياء بعض، ووَمَنْ يَتَوَلَهُم مِنكُمْ وَإِنَّهُ و مِنْهُمُو من جملتهم من صادق الكافرين فقد خرج من الدين (وإِنَّ أللَّةَ لا يَهْدِى ٱلْقَوْمَ الظِّلِمِينَ) بموالاتهم للكفار (قَتَرَى ألذِيَ فِي فُلُوبِهِم مَرَضٌ) ضعف اعتقادٍ كعبد اللّٰه بن أبي المنافق (يُسَرِعُونَ فِيهِمْ) في موالاتهم (يَقُولُونَ) معتذرين (نَخْش۪يٰٓ أَن تُصِيبَنَا دَآئِرَةࣱۖ) يدور بها الدهر علينا من جدب أو غلبة ولا يتم أمر محمد أبدا فلا يميرونا، قال تعالى (فَعَسَي اَ۬للَّهُ أَنْ يَّاتِيَ بِالْفَتْحِ) بالنصر لنبيه بإظهار دينه (أَوَامْرٍ مِنْ عِندِهِ)

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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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