Q 20:73 across the corpus — Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

Q 20:73 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِنَّآ لَنَا وَمَآ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ

Lo! we believe in our Lord, that He may forgive us our sins and the magic unto which thou didst force us. Allah is better and more lasting — 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.

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 الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 33, ¶21 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 84 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

لأنك قضاؤك في الدنيا فقط، ونحن نجزى في الآخرة وإِنَّا ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّنَا لِيَغْفِرَ لَنَا خَطَيْنَا) من الإشراك وغيره ( وَمَآ أَكْرَهْتَنَا عَلَيْهِ مِنَ السِّحْرِ أكرهتنا على تعلم السحر ومعارضة موسى نبي اللّٰه نرجو أننا بإيماننا يغفر اللّٰه لنا جميع ما مر علينا من الإشراك والكبائر والسحر (وَاللَهُ خَيْرٌ) منك ثوابا إذا أطيع (وَأَبْفِىّ) منك عذابا إذا عُصي. هكذا صاروا من أهل اللّه تبارك وتعالى «إِنَّهُۥ مَنْ يَّاتِ رَبَّهُۥ مُجْرِماࣰ» قال تعالى (إِنَّهُ ) الشأن (مَنْ يَاتِ رَبَّهُ مُجْرِما كافرا كفرعون (فَإِنَّ لَهُۥ جَهَنَّمَ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا) فيستريح ( وَلَاَ يَحْيِى) حياة تنفعه (وَمَنْ يَّاتِهِۦ مُومِناࣰ قَدْ عَمِلَ اَ۬لصَّٰلِحَٰتِ) الفرائض والنوافل (فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمُ اُ۬لدَّرَجَٰتُ اُ۬لْعُل۪يٰۖ) جمع علْيا مؤنث أعلى (جَنَّتُ عَدْبٍ) إقامة، بيان له (تَجْرِے مِن تَحْتِهَا اَ۬لَانْهَٰرُ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَاۖ وَذَٰلِكَ جَزَآءُ مَن تَزَكّ۪يٰۖ) تطهر من الذنوب (وَلَقَدَ …

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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.