Q 7:156 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَنَا فِے هَٰذِهِ وَفِے إِنَّا إِلَيْكَۖ بِهِۦ مَنَ لِلذِينَ وَالذِينَ هُم

And ordain for us in this world that which is good, and in the Hereafter (that which is good), Lo! We have turned unto Thee. He said: I smite with My punishment whom I will, and My mercy embraceth all things, therefore I shall ordain it for those who ward off (evil) and pay the poor-due, and those who believe Our revelations — 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, ¶101 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 216 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

نترج هم (بَلَمَا أَخَدَتْهُم الرّجبَةَ) لما وصلوا إلى محل الميقات فصار الأمر والنهي خرج من الحضرة إلى موسى عليه الصلاة والسلام طلبوا الرؤية فأخذتهم الصاعقة فماتوا كلا فالتفت موسى فوجدهم أمواتا فظن موسى أن اللّٰه أهلكهم بسبب عبادة العجل (قَالَ ) موسى طرَبِّ لَوْشِئْتَ أَهْلَكُتَهُم مَ قَبْلُ) لو شئت أهلكتهم قبل خروجي بهم ليعاين بنو إسرايل ذلك ولا يتهموني (وَايَّتَ) تهلكني معهم (أَتَهْلِكُنَا بِمَا بَعَلَ السَّعَيَآءَ مِنَّام وهي عبادة العجل وإِنْ هِتَى) هذه الفعلة إلا فتنة وقع فيها السفهاء (إِلاَّ مِتْنَتُكَ ابتلاؤك (تَضِلُّ بِهَا مَن تَشَآء ) إضلاله (وَتَهْدِ مَى تَشَآءَ ) هدايته (أَنتَ وَلِيَّنَا) متولي أمورنا (بَاعْمِرْ لَنَا وَارْحَمْنَا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الْغَفِرِينُ وَاكْتُبْ) أوجب (لَنَا فِي هَذِهِ الدَّنْيِا حَسَنَةَ وَمِ الآخِرَةِ) حسنة (إِنَّا هُدْنَا تبنا ( إِلَيْكَ قَالَ تعالى ( عَذَابِيَ أُصِيبٌ بِهِ مَنَ اشَآءَ) تعذيبه (وَرَحْمَتي وَسِعَتْ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ عمت كل شيء في الدنيا. …

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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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