Sūrat Āl ʿImrān · 3 : 128

Q 3:128 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَكَ مِنَ اَوْ عَلَيْهِمُۥٓ أَوْ فَإِنَّهُمْ

It is no concern at all of thee (Muhammad) whether He relent toward them or punish them; for they are evil-doers — 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 Āl ʿImrān begins at vol. 2, p. 34 (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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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 9, ¶85 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 79 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

إذا عرفوا أن الملائكة تقاتل معهم يبشرهم هذا (وَلِتَطْمَيِنَّ) تسكن ( قُلُوبُكُم بِةٌ) فلا تجزع من كثرة العدو وقلتكم (وَمَا النَّصْرُ إِلاَّ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ) وفي الحقيقة النصر لا يأتي إلا من عند اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى (الْعَزِيزِ الْحَكِيمِ) ليس بالملائكة بل من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، النصر لا يأتي إلا من اللّه فلا تجد في القرآن كلمة النصر إلا والنصر من عند اللّٰه حتى يعرف العبد أن لا ناصر إلا اللّٰه "إِنْ يَنصُرْكُمْ أللَّهُ فَلا غَالِبَ لَكُم "نَصْرمِّنَ أْللَّهِ وًتْحَ قَرِيبٌ" "إِذَا جَآءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ" لا تجد النصر الحقيقي إلا وهو مع اللّٰه "وَلَيَنصْرَدَّ اللَّهُ مَنْ يَنصُرُة " "إِن تَنصُرُواْ اللَّهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ"، لا ناصر إلا الله، «وَمَا النَّصْرُ إِلاَّ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَكِيمِ» فعل ذلك (لِيَفْطَعَ) ليهلك (طَرَباً مِسَ ألذِيرَ كَبَرْوا) بالقتل والأسر (أَوْ يَكْبِتَهُمْ) يذلهم بالهزيمة ( يَنفَلِبُوا يرجعوا خَابِبِيَ) لم ينالوا ما راموا. ولما كسرت رَباعية الرسول …

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 9, ¶87 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 79 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

عظمة الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، أمْره كلا أمْر اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، حتى أنه ليس له من أمره شيء (وَللِهِ مَافِى السَّمَوَتِ وَمَامِ الأَرْضِ) ملكا وخلقا وعبيدا (يَعْرْ لِمَنْ هُ

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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.

The verse used, not interpreted

Here the verse warrants a claim argued from other authorities. It is not the object of commentary.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 43, ¶18 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 105 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

من يشاء ويهدي من يشاء، وإبليس ليس له من الأمر شيء كالنبي ليس له من الأمر شيء، أنزل اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى في حق النبي "لَيْسَ لَكَ مِنَ الأَمْرِ شَئْءً " صونا لإيمان أمته عن أن يقعوا في مثل ما وقع فيه النصارى واليهود. فاليهود قالوا: عزير ابن الله، والنصارى قالوا المسيح ابن الله، والرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أجل منهما قدرا وأجْهر آيات ولكن اللّٰه يصرح على رؤوس الأشهاد "لَيْسَ لَكَ مِنَ الاَمْرِ شَيْءٌ" فلهذا عصم الله هذه الأمة ما ادعوا الألوهية لرسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم يعلمون أنه على جلالة قدره سيد البشر، سيد ولد آدم وسيد الخلق أجمعين ولكنه عبد لله، (وَمَا مِنَّا هذا خطاب يحكيه اللّٰه عن جبريل قال جبريل "وَمَا مِنَّا معشر الملائكة {إِلَّ لَهُو مَقَامٌ مَعْلُومٌ في السماوات يعبد اللّه فيه لا يتجاوزه (وَإِنَّا لَنَحْنُ الصَّافُونَ) أقدامنا في الصلاة ( وَإنَّا لَنَحْنُ الْمُسَبِّحُونَ) المنزهون لله ( وَإِن كَانُوا الكفار لَيَقُولُونَ لَوَ آنَّ عِنْدَنَا ذِكْرا) كتابا (مِّنَ …

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Lesson 43 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 37:145–Q 39:75) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. 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.

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