Q 6:150 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اُ۬لذِينَ أَنَّ هَٰذَاۖ فَإِن فَلَا مَعَهُمْۖ وَلَا اَ۬لذِينَ وَالذِينَ لَا وَهُم

Say: Come, bring your witnesses who can bear witness that Allah forbade (all) this. And if they bear witness, do not thou bear witness with them. Follow thou not the whims of those who deny Our revelations, those who believe not in the Hereafter and deem (others) equal with their Lord — 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, ¶61 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الإيمان عزيزا والمؤمن عزيزا جعل المؤمنين أقل من الكفار، وأيضا ليظهر غناه واستغناءه عن كل أحد، اللّٰه غني لو كان مفتقرا لشيء لافتقر إلى كثرة المسلمين وكثرة المؤمنين، ولكنه حيث أنه غني يكفيه قليل من الناس يكونون مسلمين، لو كان الناس كفارا جميعا ما ضره ذلك فقلل المسلمين أهل الإيمان ليري استغناءه بنفسه عن كل أحد. وثالثا ليري قدرته فإن أهل الإيمان وهم الأقل أقل عددا وعُددا ومع ذلك فهو قادر على حفظهم حتى لا يضرهم الكفار وهم أكثر، فالكفار أكثر وأكثر عددا وسلاحا وعلما ومكائد، والمسلمون قليلون بينهم ضعفاء فقراء أكثرهم، جهلاء أكثرهم ومع هذا حفظهم اللّٰه حتى أن الكفار ما قدروا لهم على شيء، بل تجد الكفار دائما يخافون المسلمين، والمسلمون لا يبالون بهم، فإن قيل إن هذا ينافي ما تقدم بالأمس "كتب على نفسه الرحمة" إن كانت رحمته سبقت غضبه وكان الكفار أكثر من المسلمين فكيف ترجح الرحمة على الغضب؟ نعم قلة المسلمين بالنسبة إلى الإنس والجن فقط، وإلا فالملائكة كلهم والحور العين والملأ الأعلى أكثر من الإنس والجن …

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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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