Sūrat Ibrāhīm · 14 : 12

Q 14:12 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَمَا لَنَآ أَلَّا عَلَي وَقَدْ عَلَيٰ مَآ وَعَلَي

How should we not put our trust in Allah when He hath shown us our ways? We surely will endure the hurt ye do us. In Allah let the trusting put their trust — 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 Ibrāhīm begins at vol. 5, p. 85 (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 28, ¶58 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 70 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

نحن كاملوا الأعضاء كمثلكم كاملو العقول كيف تكونون أنبياء متبوعين ونحن نكون أتباعا؟ هذا ما يمكن (تُرِيدُونَ أَن تَصُدُّونَا عَمَّا كَانَ يَعْبُدُ ءَابَآؤُنَا فَاتُونَا بِسُلْطَٰنࣲ مُّبِينࣲۖ) حجة ظاهرة على صدقكم ( قَالَتْ لَهُمْ رُسُلُهُمُۥٓ إِن نَّحْنُ إِلَّا بَشَرٞ مِّثْلُكُمْ ) كما قلتم ( وَلَٰكِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ يَمُنُّ عَلَيٰ مَنْ يَّشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦۖ ) الذي جهلتم أن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى هو مالك الخلق إن شاء جعل واحدا منا نبيا، أي شيء في هذا؟ ( وَمَا كَانَ لَنَآ أَن نَّاتِيَكُم بِسُلْطَٰنٍ اِلَّا بِإِذْنِ اِ۬للَّهِۖ ) ليس لنا أن نأتي بالمعجزات لأننا عبيد مربوبون إلا ما شاء اللّٰه هو الذي يقع. ما أشد حماقتهم، البشر الكامل لا ينبغي أن يكون رسولا والحجر يكون إلها؟ هذا عجيب (وَعَلَي اَ۬للَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ اِ۬لْمُومِنُونَۖ ) يثقوا به ( وَمَا لَنَآ أَلَّا نَتَوَكَّلَ عَلَي اَ۬للَّهِ ) لا مانع لنا من ذلك (وَقَدْ هَد۪يٰنَا سُبُلَنَاۖ وَلَنَصْبِرَنَّ عَلَيٰ مَآ ءَاذَيْتُمُونَاۖ ) أي …

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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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