Sūrat Al-Tawba · 9 : 31

Q 9:31 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مِّن مَرْيَمَۖ وَمَآ إِلَّا لَّآ إِلَّا هُوَۖ عَمَّا

They have taken as lords beside Allah their rabbis and their monks and the Messiah son of Mary, when they were bidden to worship only One Allah. There is no Allah save Him. Be He Glorified from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him) — 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-Tawba begins at vol. 4, p. 74 (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, ¶121 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 44 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

اليهود والنصارى، اليهود والنصارى الآن، بقوا ليسوا على دين لأنهم لم يتبعوا الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم (حَتَّىٰ يَعْطَواْ ألْجِزْيَةَ) الخراج المضروب عليهم كل عام ( عَنْ يَدِ) منقادين أو بايديهم لا يوكلون بها (وَهُمْ صَافِرُونَ) أذلاء منقادون لحكم الإسلام (وَقَالَتِ ٱلْتَهُودُ عَرَبْرُ إِنْنَ اللَّهِ وَقَالَتِ ٱلتَّصَرَى الْمَسِيحُ عيسى ( إِبْنُ اللَّهِ ذَلِكَ قَوْلَهُمْ بِأَفْوَهِهِمْ) لا مسند هم عليه بل يُصَهُونَ) يشابهون (قَوْلَ ألذِيرَ كَبَرُواْصٍ قَبْلَ) من آبائهم قالوا هذا تقليدا الابانهم (قَتَلَهَم اللَّ لعنهم اللّٰه (أَنّى) كيف (يُوبَكُونَ) يصرفون عن الحق مع قيام الدليل ( تَخَذُواْ أَحْبَارَهُمْ) علماء اليهود (وَرُهْبَنَهُمْ وَ) عباد النصارى (أَرْبَاباً مِ دُوبِ إلَّهِ حيث اتبعوهم في تحليل ما حرم وتحريم ما أحل. قالوا للرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم معاذ اللّٰه ما اتخذناهم أربابا قال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: أليسوا إذا أحلوا لكم شيئا حراما تقبلونه؟ قالوا: نعم، وإذا حرموا شيئا حلالا …

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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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