Q 7:164 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَإِذْ مِّنْهُمْ لِمَ أَوْ اِلَيٰ وَلَعَلَّهُمْ

And when a community among them said: Why preach ye to a folk whom Allah is about to destroy or punish with an awful doom, they said: In order to be free from guilt before your Lord, and that haply they may ward off (evil) — 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, ¶110 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 216 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

لما أمروا أن يتفرغوا يوم الجمعة، قالوا لا، لا نتفرغ إلا في اليوم الذي تفرغ فيه اللّه تبارك وتعالى وهو يوم السبت، فشدد عليهم حتى صيد السمك لا تشتغلوا به فيه. فإذا جاء يوم السبت جاءت الحيتان ودخلت في البيوت تزور الحوت الذي ابتلع يونس بن متى 1، فإذا انقضى يوم السبت لا يرون شيئا من الحيتان وكَذَلِكَ نَبْلُوهُم بِمَا كَانُواْ يَعْسَفُونَ) بسبب نسقهم، فعزموا على الصيد بأن وسوس لهم الشيطان: إن اللّٰه ما منعكم أن تحتالوا للسمك في يوم السبت، إنما منعكم من أن تصيدوا في يوم السبت. فلما جاء يوم السبت فاضت المياه في البيوت والدور ومعها الحيتان فحفر أحدهم حفرة في داره فلما انكشف الماء بقي السمك في الحفرة حتى غدا فأخذه وطبخ وأكل وباع حتى ربح مالا كثيرا فتتابع الناس على ذلك العمل وبعد ذلك تجرأوا وصاروا يصطادون السمك يوم السبت جهارا، فلما فعلوا ذلك افترقت القرية ثلاثا: ثلث صادوا وثلث نهوهم وثلث أمسكوا عن الصيد والنهي ( وَإِذْ قَالَتْ أمَّةٌ مِنْهُمْ لِمَ تَعِظُونَ قَوْماً إلَّهُ مُهْلِكُهُمْ وَ أَوْ …

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 19, ¶112 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 216 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

{أنجَيْنَا ألذِينَ يَنْهَوْتَ عَبِ السُّوءِ وَأَخَذْنَا ألذِيرَ ظَلَمُوا بالاعتداء (بِعَذَّابٍ بِيس) شديد

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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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