Q 7:169 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مِنۢ هَٰذَا لَنَا وَإِنْ أَلَمْ عَلَيْهِم أَن لَّا عَلَي إِلَّا مَا فِيهِۖ لِّلذِينَ أَفَلَا

And a generation hath succeeded them who inherited the scriptures. They grasp the goods of this low life (as the price of evil-doing) and say: It will be forgiven us. And if there came to them (again) the offer of the like, they would accept it (and would sin again). Hath not the covenant of the Scripture been taken on their behalf that they should not speak aught concerning Allah save the truth? And they have studied that which is therein. And the abode of the Hereafter is better, for those who ward off (evil). Have ye then no sense — 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, ¶115 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 216 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الصَّلِحُونَ وَمِنْهَمْ دُولَ ذَلِكَ) الكفار (وَبَلَوْنَهَم بِالْحَسَنَتِ بالنعم (وَالسَّيِّـَٔاتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَۖ فَخَلَفَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفࣱ وَرِثُواْ اُ۬لْكِتَٰبَ) التوراة عن آبائهم (يَاخُذُونَ عَرَضَ هَذَا الأَدْنِى) صفة خلف «فَخَلَفَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ وَرِثُواْ الْكِتَبَ» عن آبائهم «يَاخُذُونَ عَرَضَ هَذَا الآَدْنِىٰ» حطام هذا الشيء الدني من حلال أو حرام (وَيَفُولُونَ سَيُغْبَرْ لَتَا) ما فعلناه (وَإِنْ يَّاتِهِمْ عَرَضࣱ مِّثْلُهُۥ يَاخُذُوهُۖ) يرجون المغفرة وهم عائدون إلى ما فعلوه مصرون عليه وليس في التوراة وعد المغفرة مع الإصرار ( أَلَمْ يُوخَذْ استفهام تقرير (عَلَيْهِم مِّيثَٰقُ اُ۬لْكِتَٰبِ أَن لَّا يَقُولُواْ عَلَي اَ۬للَّهِ إِلَّا اَ۬لْحَقَّۖ وَدَرَسُواْ) قرأوا (مَا جِيهِ) فلِمَ كذبوا عليه بنسبة المغفرة إليه مع الإصرار؟ (وَالدَّارُ الآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ لِلذِينَ يَتَّقُونَ) الحرام (أَبَلا تَعْفِلُونُ) أنها خير فتؤثرونها. اللّه تبارك وتعالى قال إن الآخرة خير …

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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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