Q 8:53 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ لَمْ عَلَيٰ حَتَّيٰ مَا وَأَنَّ

That is because Allah never changeth the grace He hath bestowed on any people until they first change that which is in their hearts, and (that is) because Allah is Hearer, Knower — 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, ¶23 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 44 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى ملك عدل، والعدل من يضع الأشياء في محلها، لا يضع شيئا في غير محله، لا يتأتى منه الظلم أبدا، إما فضل وإما عدل لأن الظلم التصرف في شيء الغير والله لا يتصرف إلا في مملوكه. قلنا إن العدل وضع الشيء في محله، كل الناس يقولون أمير عادل ولا يعرفون ما حقيقة العدل، يظنون أن الأمير إذا ترك الأذى وأعطى المنافع فقد عدل وليس كذلك، العدل وضع الأشياء في محلها. إذا جمع الملك أموالا كثيرة وأسلحة كثيرة وعنده كتب ومساجد، فأعطى الأموال للأغنياء وأعطى الأسلحة للعلماء وأعطى المساجد والكتب للجيش فهذا الملك ليس بعدل لأنه وضع الأشياء في غير محلها، فلهذا العدل يحتاج إلى نظر سديد، لابد من وضع كل شيء في محله وإلا كان ظالما ولو كان نافعا، ولو كف إذايته، الكتب للعساكر والمساجد للعساكر، والسلاح للعلماء، والأموال للأغنياء، هذا ليس بعدل نفع وليس بعدل. دأب هؤلاء (كَدَأْبِ) عادتهم كعادة ءَالِ بِرْعَوْنٌ وَالذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ كَبَرْواْ بِئَايَتِ اللَّهِ فَأَخَذَهُمْ اللَّهُ بالعقاب ( بِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَ) …

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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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