Q 6:137 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَكَذَٰلِكَ مِّنَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَوْ مَا وَمَا

Thus have their (so-called) partners (of Allah) made the killing of their children to seem fair unto many of the idolaters, that they may ruin them and make their faith obscure for them. Had Allah willed (it otherwise), they had not done so. So leave them alone with their devices — 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, ¶42 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ذكر ( زَيَّنَ لِكَثِيرٍ منَ الْمُشْرِكِيرَ قَتْلَ أَوْلَدِهِمْ) كذلك من سفاهة الجاهلية كانوا يقتلون أولادهم بالوأد وشُرَكَاؤْهُمْ لِيُرْدُوهُمْ) يهلكوهم (وَلِيَلْبِسُوا) يخلطوا (عَلَيْهِمْ دِينَهُمْ وَلَوْ شَآءَ اللَّهُ مَا فَعَلُوهٌ فَذَرْهُمْ وَمَا يَفْتَرُونَ) كان واحد من الكفار أسلم على يد الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وكلما جلس في مجلس النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم جلس كئيبا حزينا دائما متقنعا فكلمه الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: ما بالك دائما حزينا بعدما هداك اللّٰه إلى الإسلام؟ قال: أنا فعلت ذنبا في الجاهلية أظن أن اللّٰه لا يغفره لي، قال له النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: وما هو؟ قال إنه يستحيي أن يذكر ذلك للرسول صلى اللّه عليه وسلم، سأله الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وقال له: ذنبك شيء حقير بجانب عفو اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، قال له: كنت رجلا في الجاهلية ممن يكرهون البنات كلما ولد لي بنت قتلتها، فؤلدت لي بنت فطلبت أمها مني أن لا أقتلها وطلبت مني عهودا ومواثيق فأعطيتها عهودا ومواثيق أني لا أقتلها …

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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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