Q 35:18 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَلَا وَإِن اِلَيٰ لَا مِنْهُ وَلَوْ ذَا إِنَّمَا اُ۬لذِينَ وَمَن فَإِنَّمَا وَإِلَي

And no burdened soul can bear another's burden, and if one heavy laden crieth for (help with) his load, naught of it will be lifted even though he (unto whom he crieth) be of kin. Thou warnest only those who fear their Lord in secret, and have established worship. He who groweth (in goodness), groweth only for himself, (he cannot by his merit redeem others). Unto Allah is the journeying — 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 Fāṭir begins at vol. 8, p. 52 (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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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 42, ¶6 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 55 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

بالغنى والكرم والحمد ( إِنْ يَشَأْ يُذْهِبْكُمْ وَيَاتٍ بِخَلْفِ جَدِيدٌ)) بدلكم، لو شاء اللّٰه لأذهب الناس جميعا ويأتي بناس آخرين، هذا دأبه دائما كل يوم نشاهد هذا (وَمَا ذَلِكَ عَلَى أنَّهَ بِعَزِينُ) ليس بصعب عليه، هذا لا ينكره المنكرون ولا يكذبه المكذبون لأتهم يشاهدون هذا دائما. قبل أربعين سنة كل من كنت تعرف من الرجال الأكابر الأقوياء الأعزاء جلهم ذهبوا، ومن هنا إلى أربعين سنة لا يبقى منا إلا القليل (وَلَا تَزِرْ وَازِرَةٌ آثمة (وِزْرَ أخْرِى) وزر نفس أخرى. من عمل سوء فلا يجزى إلا عليه، ليس للإنسان إلا ما سعى، لا يكتب ذنب على غير عامله إلا من دعا للضلالة أو العصيان فعليه إثمه وإثم من عمل بعمله إلى يوم القيامة لأنه تسبب في ذلك. لا معارضة بين الآيتين. ( وَإِن تَدْعُ) نفس ( مُثْفَلَةُ) بالوزر (اِلَيٰ حِمْلِهَا لَا يُحْمَلْ مِنْهُ شَےْءࣱ) إذا ادعى إنسان أنه يتحمل إثم إنسان آخر فذلك كذب، كل إنسان عليه وزره وله عمله (وَلَوْ كَانَ ذَا فُرْبِىّ ولو كان المدعو ذا قرى كالأب والإبن، وعدم الحمل …

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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 and how well attested the attribution is. Loci 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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