Sūrat Ṭāhā · 20 : 69

Q 20:69 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مَا فِے مَا إِنَّمَا وَلَا

Throw that which is in thy right hand! It will eat up that which they have made. Lo! that which they have made is but a wizard's artifice, and a wizard shall not be successful to whatever point (of skill) he may attain — 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 Ṭāhā begins at vol. 6, p. 69 (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

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 33, ¶15 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 84 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

هذا هو مطلب موسى، لما خاف جاءه الأمن من قبل اللّٰه لما قال له «لا تَخَفِ» وِنَّكَ أَنتَ الآعْبِى) عليهم بالغلبة (وَأَلْوِ مَا مِي يَمِينِكَ) وهي عصاه (تَلَفَّف) تبتلع (مَا صَنَعْوُّاْ إِنَّمَا صَنَعُوا كَيْدُ سَحِرٍ من جنسه (وَلَا يُفْلِحُ اُ۬لسَّاحِرُ حَيْثُ أَت۪يٰۖ) بسحره، فألقى موسى عصاه فتلقفت كل ما صنعوه، وجال الثعبان فصار يبتلع الحجارة والجبال، بسمعون أصوات الحجارة في جوف الثعبان فعمد إلى فرعون، فجزع فرعون وسقط من عرشه وفر إلى قصره، فتبعه الثعبان، فقال بحق من أرسلك يا موسى خذ هذا الثعبان، فأخذه فصار عصا في يده قَالْفِىَ السَّحَرَةُ سُجَّداً ) خر السحرة جميعا ساجدين لله تبارك وتعالى {قَالَوا ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّ هَرُولَ وَمُوبسى آمنوا بالله لأنّهم بلغوا من علم السحر مبلغا كل ما أعجزهم يعلمون أنه ليس من جنس السحر، فلهذا ينبغي لكل إنسان إذا طلب علما أن يبلغ غايته، السحرة لما بلغوا الغاية في السحر، لما رأوا المعجزة تيقنوا أنّها ليست من جنس السحر، لأنّهم لا يخفى عليهم من السحر شيء، آمنوا …

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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. 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.

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