Q 7:148 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مُوس۪يٰ مِنۢ مِنْ لَّهُۥ اَلَمْ اَنَّهُۥ لَا وَلَا

And the folk of Moses, after (he left them), chose a calf (for worship), (made) out of their ornaments, of saffron hue, which gave a lowing sound. Saw they not that it spake not unto them nor guided them to any way? They chose it, and became wrong-doers 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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Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 19, ¶91 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 216 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الصرف (بِأَنَّهُمْ كَذَّبُواْ بِئَاتَيِنَا وَكَانُوا عَنْهَا عَهِلِينَ) تقدم مثله (وَالذِيلَ كَذَّبُوا بِتَاينا وَلِقَاءِ الآخِرَة البعث وغيره (حَبِطَتَ) بطلت (اعْتَلَهُمْ) ما عملوه في الدنيا من خم كصلة رحم وصدقة فلا ثواب لهم فيه لعدم شرطه وهَل يُجْزَوْنَ) ما يجزون (وإلآ جزاء (مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونُ) من التكذيب والمعاصي ( وَاتَّخَذَ قَوْمُ مُوسِىٰ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ) من بعد ذهابه إلى المناجاة (مِنْ حَلِيِّهِمْ) الذي استعاروه من قوم فرعون بعلة عرس فبقي عندهم ( عِجْلًا) صاغه لهم منه السامري جَسَداً) لحما ودما (ولَهُ خُوَارّ) صوت يسمع، انقلب كذلك بوضع التراب الذي أخذه من حافر فرس جبريل في فمه فإن أثره الحياة وما يوضع في شيء إلا وحيي. كان موسى عليه الصلاة والسلام ذهب إلى الميقات، وكان بنو إسرائيل لا يملكون شيئا فكان بهم عرس، وكانوا إذا وقع لهم عرس استعاروا من القبط الحلي والحلل، فاستعاروا من حلي القبط فلما مضى العرس أهلك اللّٰه القبط فبقي الحلي في أيديهم، فلما ذهب موسى إلى الميقات جاء السامري

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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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