Sūrat Al-Nisāʾ · 4 : 153

أَن عَلَيْهِمْ مِّنَ فَقَدْ مُوس۪يٰٓ مِن ذَٰلِكَ ثُمَّ مِنۢ مَا عَن ذَٰلِكَۖ مُوس۪يٰ

The people of the Scripture ask of thee that thou shouldst cause an (actual) Book to descend upon them from heaven. They asked a greater thing of Moses aforetime, for they said: Show us Allah plainly. The storm of lightning seized them for their wickedness. Then (even) after that) they chose the calf (for worship) after clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty) had come unto them. And We forgave them that! And We bestowed on Moses evident authority — Pickthall

In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Nisāʾ begins at vol. 2, p. 146 (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◐ matched, unchecked

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 13, ¶9 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يا محمد ( أَهْلُ الْكِتَبِ) اليهود (أَن تُنَزِّلَ عَلَيْهِمْ كِتَباً مِنَ السَّمَآءِ) قالوا إنّهم لا يؤمنون بالقرآن حتى يأتي جملة كما أتى التوراة جملة على موسى، وهذا قالوه تعنتا، فإن استكبرت ذلك، فَدْ سَأَلُوا آباؤهم ( مُوسى أَكْبَرَمِ ذَلِكَ الأولاد وإن بلغوا ما بلغوا من العناد والتعنت فآباؤهم أشد منهم تعنتا وعنادا، فقد سألوا موسى هذا السؤال قَفَالُواْ أَرِنَا اللَّةَ جَهْرَةَ ) عيانا (بَأَخَذَتْهُمْ الصَّعِفَةُ الموت عقابا لهم ( بِظُلْمِهِمْ )، حيث تعنتوا في السؤال، طلبوا رؤية اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى عيانا تعنتا لا شوقا، لو كان محبة وشوقا لما هلكوا ولكن استكبارا[1]

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