Q 8:48 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

۞وَإِذْ لَهُمُ لَا لَكُمُ مِنَ وَإِنِّے لَّكُمْۖ فَلَمَّا عَلَيٰ إِنِّے مِّنكُمُۥٓ إِنِّيَ مَا لَا إِنِّيَ

And when Satan made their deeds seem fair to them and said: No-one of mankind can conquer you this day, for I am your protector. But when the armies came in sight of one another, he took flight, saying: Lo! I am guiltless of you. Lo! I see that which ye see not. Lo! I fear Allah. And Allah is severe in punishment — 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-Anfāl begins at vol. 4, p. 30 (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 21, ¶17 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 44 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الذكر لم يحرم الولاية، ولابد من الذكر باللسان أولا ثم بالقلب ثم بالروح والسر حتى يصل إلى المطلوب فيكون ذكرا وذاكرا ومذكورا لم يبق إلا الله. وَيَصْدُونَ) الناس ( عَن سَبِيلِ اِللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ مُحِيطٌ وَ اذكر (إِذْ زَيَّرَ لَهُمْ الشَّيْطَىُ أَعْمَلَهُمْ) شجعهم إبليس على لقاء المسلمين لما خافوا الخروج إلى أعدائهم بني بكر وَقَالَ) لهم ( لا غَالِبَ لَكُمْ الْيَوْمَ صِنَ النَّاس وَإِنِّى جَارلَّكُمْ) من كنانة وكان أتاهم في صورة سراقة بن مالك سيد تلك الناحية ( لَمَا تَرَآءَتِ) التقت الْمِيَّتَرِ)، المسلمة والكافرة ورأى إبليس الملائكة وكان يده في يد الحرث بن هشام (نَكَصَ) رجع (عَلَى عَفِبَيْهِ هربا د وَفَالَ) لما قالوا له: أتخذلنا على هذا الحال؟ (إِنِّى بَرِّءٌ مِنْكُم من جواركم ( إِنِّيَ أَرِى مَا لا تَرَوْنَ) من الملائكة (إِنّى أَخَافُ اللَّةَ) أن يهلكني (وَاللَّهُ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ إِذْ يَقُولُ الْمُنَاجِفُونَ وَالذِيسَ فِي قُلُوبِهِم مَرَضِّ)

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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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