Q 62:5 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اُ۬لذِينَ اُ۬لتَّوْر۪يٰةَ ثُمَّ لَمْ اِ۬لذِينَ لَا

The likeness of those who are entrusted with the Law of Moses, yet apply it not, is as the likeness of the ass carrying books. Wretched is the likeness of folk who deny the revelations of Allah. And Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk — 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-Jumuʿa begins at vol. 10, p. 3 (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 51, ¶12 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

فالرؤيا تعكس القضية دائما إذا رأيت أبيض في المنام فهو أسود وإذا رأيت أسود فهو أبيض، إذا رأيت أنثى فهي ذكر وإذا رأيت ذكرا فهو أنثى عالم النوم. «وَهُوَ ألْعَزِيرُ أَلْحَكِينُ) في ملكه وصنعه. وهذا بيان في فضل الصحابة المبعوث فيهم النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، لا يُلحَق شأوهم، فكل من أتى على قدمهم فهو في ميزانهم. (خير القرون قرني ثم الذين يلونهم ثم الذين يلونهم)1 الصحابة والتابعون وتابعو التابعين. وقال: (خير أمني أولها وآخرها وفي الوسط الكدر) [2] يوجد في القرون الأخيرة قرن يلحق بهذه القرون الثلاثة ( دَلِكَ بَطْرَا أللَّهِ يُوتِيهِ مَنْ يَشَآءٍ النبي صلى اللّه عليه وسلم ومن ذكر معه (وَاللَّهُ ذُو ألْفَصْلِ الْعَظِيمُ مَثَلُ الذِينَ حُمِّلُوا التَّوْرِيَةَ) كلفوا العمل بها (ثُمَّ لَمْ يَحْمِلُوهَا) لم يعملوا بما فيها من نعته صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فلم يؤمنوا به صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم (كَمَثَلِ اِلْحِبارٍ يَحْمِلُ أَسْوَارا )

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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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