Q 7:126 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَمَا مِنَّآ إِلَّآ أَنَ لَمَّا عَلَيْنَا

Thou takest vengeance on us only forasmuch as we believed the tokens of our Lord when they came unto us. Our Lord! Vouchsafe unto us steadfastness and make us die as men who have surrendered (unto Thee) — 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-Aʿrāf begins at vol. 3, p. 191 (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 19, ¶33 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 216 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

إن هذا مكر مكروه قبل هذا المجلس (ولا فَطِعَنَ أَيْدِيَكُمْ وَأَرْجَلَكُم مِنْ خَلَّبِ) يدكل واحد اليمنى ورجله اليسرى (ثُمَّ لَأُصَلِّبَنَّكُمُۥٓ أَجْمَعِينَۖ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّآ إِلَيٰ رَبِّنَا مُنقَلِبُونَۖ) إذا فعلت هذا غاية هذا أن نموت ونحن إذا متنا نرجع إلى اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى ( وَمَا تَنقِمّ مِنَّا) تنكر منا (إِلَّ أَنَ - امَنَّا بِثَايَاتِ رَبِّنَا لَمَّا جَاءَتْنَا رَبَّنَآ أَبْرِغْ صب ( عَلَيْنَا صَبْراً) عند فعل ما يوعدنا به لئلا نرجع كفارا ووَتَوَقَّنَا مُسْلِمِينٌ) هؤلاء آمنوا سجدوا لله فجذبوا إلى حضرة اللّه تبارك وتعالى، ما رفعوا رؤوسهم من السجود إلا وكلهم فانٍ في الحق تبارك وتعالى، فجاء تهديد فرعون كضرب في حديد بارد. قال: نقتلكم، قالوا: إذا قتلتنا ما يكون؟ نرجع إلى الله تبارك وتعالى، يضحكون عليه (وَقَالَ الْمَلَسِ قَوْمٍ فِرْعَوْنَ أَتَذَرْ مُوسى وَقَوْمَهُ لِيَفْسِدُواْ فِيِ الأَرْضِ) لما وقع هذا تراخى فرعون وضعف أمره وجلس في بيته لم يفعل شيئا، لم يأمر في شأن موسى بشيء، …

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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. Passages 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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