إِنَّمَا عَلَيْكُمُ وَمَآ بِهِۦ فَمَنُ وَلَا فَلَآ عَلَيْهِۖ إِنَّ
He hath forbidden you only carrion, and blood, and swineflesh, and that which hath been immolated to (the name of) any other than Allah. But he who is driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, it is no sin for him. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful — 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-Baqara begins at vol. 1, p. 54 (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 5, ¶104 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 120 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
أكل الميتة (وَالدَّمَ) المسفوح (وَلَحْمَ الْخِنزِيرِ وَمَآ أَهِلَّ بِهِ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ)) ذبح على اسم غيره (فَمَنُ أضْطَرَ) ألجاته الضرورة إلى أكل شيء (غَيْرَ بَاغٍ) غير خارج على المسلمين على مذهب الشافعي أو غير باغ غير مستغن بالجيفة مع وجود غيرها (وَلا عَادِه متعد
Read in context →Here the verse warrants a claim argued from other authorities. It is not the object of commentary.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 17, ¶58 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
"وَلَا يَرْضِىٰ لِعِبَادِهِ الْكُفْرَ وَإِن تَشْكُرُواْ يَرْضَهُ لَكُمْ ، شاءه وما رضي به، فهو له خطابان خطاب المشيئة وخطاب الحكمة، خطاب المشيئة لا يكون شيء إلا شيء شاءه الله، والكفر والمحرمات والمعاصي كل هذه بمشيئة الله، ولكن لا يرضى لعباده الكفر، والإيمان بمشيئته والطاعة بمشيئته وهو يرضى بذلك. فهم قالوا كلمة حق وبنوا عليها باطلا «لَوْ شَآءَ اَ۬للَّهُ مَآ أَشْرَكْنَا وَلَآ ءَابَآؤُنَا وَلَا حَرَّمْنَا مِن شَےْءࣲۖ» هذا حق، فإشراكنا وتحريمنا بمشيئته فهو راض به هذا كذب، كَذَالِكَ كما كذب هؤلاء (كَذَّبَ الذِيَ مِ فَبْلِهِمْ) رسلهم (حَتَّىٰ ذَافُوا بَأْسَنَا عذابنا (قُلْ هَلْ عِندَكُم مِّنْ عِلْمࣲ) بأن اللّه راض بذلك ( يَتُخْرِجُوهُ لَتَأَم لا علم عندكم (إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ) في ذلك (إِلَّا اَ۬لظَّنَّۖ وَإِنَ اَنتُمُۥٓ إِلَّا تَخْرُصُونَۖ) تكذبون (فَلْ)
Read in context →Lesson 17 runs Q 6:111–Q 6:165. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.
The printing brackets no quotation here. A run of consecutive words in this paragraph — three at the shortest — occurs in one place in the muṣḥaf and nowhere else, and every āya lying inside that run is credited, so a run crossing a boundary attests both. Matching folds together the letter shapes the scan confuses, so the words need not stand in the āya exactly as printed.
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. Passages 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.