Q 57:14 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

أَلَمْ مَّعَكُمْۖ بَل۪يٰ وَلَٰكِنَّكُمْ حَتَّيٰ

They will cry unto them (saying): Were we not with you? They will say: Yea, verily; but ye tempted one another, and hesitated, and doubted, and vain desires beguiled you till the ordinance of Allah came to pass; and the deceiver deceived you concerning Allah — 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-Ḥadīd begins at vol. 9, p. 174 (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 49, ¶82 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 152 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

لهم استهزاء بهم ( إَرْجِعْراْ وَرَاءَكُمْ بَالْتَيِسْوا نَوراً فرجعوا (بَصَرِبَ بَيْنَهَم) وبين المومنين (بسُورِ) قيل هو سور الأعراف وإلَهُ بَابُّ بَاطِنَهُو جِيهِ الرَّحْمَةُ) من جهة المومنية (وَظَهِرُ ) من جهة المنافقين (مِن قِبَلِهِ اِ۬لْعَذَابُۖ يُنَادُونَهُمُۥٓ أَلَمْ نَكُن مَّعَكُمْۖ قَالُواْ بَل۪يٰ وَلَٰكِنَّكُمْ فَتَنتُمُۥٓ أَنفُسَكُمْ) بالنفاق (وَتَرَبَّصْتُمْ) بالمؤمنين الدوائر (وَرَبَتَم ) شككم في دين الإسلام (وَغَرَّتْكُمُ الاَمَانِيِّ) الأطماع (حَتَّىٰ جَآءَ امْرُ أَللَّهِ) الموت (وَغَرَّكُم بِاللهِ الْغَرُورُ) الشيطان. إن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى ذكر أن المنافقين يخادعونه وهو يخادعهم أي يكافئهم على المخادعة. عندما قالوا لا إله إلا اللّٰه محمد رسول اللّٰه وليس حقا عندهم، سلموا من سيف الشارع ما قتلوا وسلمت أموالهم ولكن هذا مدة حياتهم، سيموتون وسيبعثون، فإذا بعثوا وأرسل الناس على الصراط الكفار يجدون الصراط ظلمة شديدة لا يقدرون على المشي عليه فيسقطون في النار، ومن قال لا إله إلا …

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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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