لَا كَمَآ مِّنَ عَنْهُمَا إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ مِنْ لَا إِنَّا لِلذِينَ لَا
O Children of Adam! Let not Satan seduce you as he caused your (first) parents to go forth from the Garden and tore off from them their robe (of innocence) that he might manifest their shame to them. Lo! he seeth you, he and his tribe, from whence ye see him not. Lo! We have made the devils protecting friends for those who believe not — 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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 1, ¶20 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 29 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
قال له: لا تقدرون على رده «إِنَّهُ يَرَيكُمْ هُوَ وَقَبِيلُهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا تَرَوْنَهُمْ ۗ» ولكن إذا وسوس لك عدو اللّٰه فكن كالضيف إذا سطا عليه كلب رب المنزل يستجير برب المنزل، لا يباشر الكلب بنفسه، أنت إذا وسوس لك إبليس التجئ إلى ربه، يكفيك شره قل:
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 18, ¶32 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 191 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
اللّه اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى كسا عباده الصالحين لباسا، لباس النفس ولباس القلب ولباس الروح ولباس السر، لباس النفس: العمل بالشريعة، امتثال الأمر واجتناب النهي يستر عورة مخالفة أمر الله. ولباس القلب التقوى أيضا وهو تقوى يمنع العبد من الاشتغال بغير الله. ولباس الروح التقوى أيضا ولكن لباس يمنعه من الالتفات إلى غير اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى. ولباس السر التقوى ولكن تقوى يحجزه عن رؤية ما سوى اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، ذلك خير أفضل اللباس (يَبَنِى ادَمَ لا يَمْتِتَّكُمْ) يضلنكم (الشَّيْطَرُ) لا تتبعوه فتفتنوا (كَمَآ أَخْرَجَ أَبَوَيْكُم مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ يَنْزِعُ عَنْهُمَا لِبَاسَهُمَا لِيْرِيَهُمَا سَوْءَاتِهِمَا إِنَّهُ ٨ الشيطان (يَرِيْكُمْ هُوَ وَقَبِيلُهُ )) جنوده (مِنْ حَيْثُ لا تَرَوْنَهُمْ) للطافة أجسادهم وعدم ألوانهم (إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا الشَّيَطِيَ أَوْلِيَآء)
Read in context →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.