Q 6:124 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَإِذَا لَن حَتَّيٰ مَآ اُ۬لذِينَ بِمَا

And when a token cometh unto them, they say: We will not believe till we are given that which Allah's messengers are given. Allah knoweth best with whom to place His message. Humiliation from Allah and heavy punishment will smite the guilty for their scheming 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-Anʿām begins at vol. 3, p. 112 (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 17, ¶19 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أعداء أولياء اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى (ولِيَمْكُرُواْ جِيهَام) لأن الأكابر هم الذين توفرت عندهم الأموال والجاه، ومن كان عنده هذا كان أقدر على الغدر والخيانة والظلم من كل أحد، ومن كان عنده المال كثيرا وعنده الجاه لابد يكون حريصا على زيادة ماله وجاهه، وتلك الزيادة لا تصح إلا بجميع الأعمال الخبيئة مثل البغض والحسد والنميمة والغيبة والخلف بالأيمان الكاذبة، كل هذا لابد أن يكتسبوه صونا للرئاسة وحرصا على زيادة أموالهم، فلهذا هم الذين يشتغلون بإذاية أنبياء اللّٰه وأولياء اللّٰه دائما (وَمَا يَمْكُرُونَ إِلَّ بِأَنْمُيِهِمْ) لأن وباله عليهم ولكن كل ما فعلوه من المكر فالمصيبة راجعة إليهم (وَمَا بَشْعُرُونُ بذلك (وَإِذَا جَاءَتْهُم ٨) أهل مكة (ايَةٌ) على صدق النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم (قَالُواْ لَن نُّومِنَ حَتَّيٰ نُوت۪يٰ مِثْلَ مَآ أُوتِيَ رُسُلُ اُ۬للَّهِۖ) أبو جهل بن هشام قال كان بيتنا وبيت محمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم كفرسي رهان في الجاهلية إلى يومنا هذا، واليوم أصبح محمد يقول إنه نبي وليس عندنا

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 17, ¶24 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

إلى بلاد العجم للقتال فذهبوا إلى بلد وقاتلوا شهورا عديدة ولم يبلغ سلاحهم محل عدوهم، كان حصن حصين وأميرته امرأة جميلة عجز الصحابة عن فتح الحصن ومكثوا زمنا فطلعت

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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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