Sūrat Al-Baqara · 2 : 26

۞إِنَّ لَا أَنْ مَّا فَمَا فَأَمَّا اَ۬لذِينَ أَنَّهُ مِن وَأَمَّا اَ۬لذِينَ مَاذَآ بِهَٰذَا بِهِۦ بِهِۦ وَمَا بِهِۦٓ إِلَّا

Lo! Allah disdaineth not to coin the similitude even of a gnat. Those who believe know that it is the truth from their Lord; but those who disbelieve say: What doth Allah wish (to teach) by such a similitude? He misleadeth many thereby, and He guideth many thereby; and He misleadeth thereby only miscreants — Pickthall

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.

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Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr● verified

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 3, ¶1 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 72 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

((إن اللَّهَ لا يَسْتَحْيِ،ٓ أَنْ يَضْرِبَ مَثَلا مَا بَعُوضَةً فَمَا فَوْقهَاُ) هذه الآية نزلت ردا لقول اليهود لما ضرب اللّه المثل بالذباب في قوله تعالى "وَإِنْ يَسْلُبْهُمْ الدُّبَابٌ شَيْئاً لاَ يَسْتَنفِذُوهُ مِنْةٌ" وفي العنكبوت في قوله "كَمَثَلِ ٱلْعَنكَبُوتِ"، قالوا: ماذا أراد اللّٰه بذكر هذه الأشياء الخسيسة؟ ما ينبغي أن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى يضرب المثل بهذه الأشياء الحقيرة، كان من حقه أن يستحي من ذلك، فنزلت. هذا سبب نزول هذه الآية ، الله ضرب المثل بهذه الأشياء الحقيرة والكفار والمنافقون واليهود استنكروا ضرب المثل بمثل هذه في حق الجليل تبارك وتعالى[1] فرد اللّٰه عليهم بقوله (إِنَّ أللَّهَ لا يَسْتَحْيِ ،ٓ أَن يَضْرِبَ) أن يجعل (مَثَلًا مَا بَعْوضَةً فَمَا فَوْقَهَاُ) اللّٰه لا يستحي أن يمثل بالبعوضة أو بما دونها أو بما فوقها، لا يترك بيان ما فيه من الحكم (فَأَمَّا ألذِينَ ءَامَنُوا فَيَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّه) المثل (الْحَقُّ) الثابت الواقع موقعه

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