Q 6:56 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اِنِّے أَنَ اَ۬لذِينَ مِن لَّآ قَد إِذاࣰ وَمَآ أَنَا مِنَ

Say: I am forbidden to worship those on whom ye call instead of Allah. Say: I will not follow your desires, for then should I go astray and I should not be of the rightly guided 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 16, ¶46 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 122 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ما كان وما هو كائن إلى يوم القيامة [1]، فصار يكتب، اكتب: نوح عليه الصلاة والسلاء إني سأرسله إلى قومه فمن آمن به أدخلته الجنة ومن كفر به أدخلته النار . اكتب: إبراهيم كذلك، اكتب: موسى كذلك، عيسى كذلك. اكتب: محمدا، فكتب محمدا وقال: أرسل إلى أمته فمن أمن به أدخلته الجنة ومن كفر به.. نطق الجليل: تأدب يا قلم، هذا الحبيب فارتعد القلم حتى شق، فصار لا يكتب إلا إذا شق، فقال: ماذا أكتب؟ قال: اكتب: أمة محمد أمة مذنبة وأنا رب غفور ورحمتي سبقت فيهم غضبي. الحمد لله. هذا معنى "كَتَبَ عَلَىٰ نَمْسِهِ الرَّحْمَةُ (وَكَذَلِكَ نُفَصِلُ) نبين الأَيَاتِ ) القرآن ليظهر الحق فيُعمل به (وَلِتَسْتَبِينَ) تظهر ( سَبِيلَ الْمُجْرِمِينَ) طريق المجرمين فتجتنب (فَلِ إِنَّى نُهِيتُ أَنَ أَعْبَدَ ألذِينَ تَدْعُونَ) تعبدون (ص دُونِ اللَّهِ قُل لَأَ أَتَّبِعُ أَهْوَاءَكُمْ) في عبادتها (قَد ضَلَلْتُ إِذا)

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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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