Q 6:112 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَكَذَٰلِكَ إِلَيٰ وَلَوْ مَا وَمَا

Thus have We appointed unto every prophet an adversary - devils of humankind and jinn who inspire in one another plausible discourse through guile. If thy Lord willed, they would not do so; so leave them alone with their devising — 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 Al-Anʿām begins at vol. 3, p. 112 (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 17, ¶8 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أعظم آية هي يوم القيامة وقد تقدّم: "وَلَوْ رَدُّواْ لَعَادُواْ لِمَا نُهُوا عَنْهُ وَانَّهُمْ لَكَذِبُونٌ". فإنا سبق في الأزل أن اللّٰه رش رشا من نور على أرواح فأولئك لابد لهم من الإيمان، ومن أخطأ، ذلك الرش لا يتأتى أن يؤمن [1] والآيات لا تنفع إلا أهل الهداية والتوفيق، كل معجزة لني وكل كرامة لولي سواء علمية كانت أو غيرها فهي تربية لأهل زمانه، فمن كان مستعدا يترى بأول إشارة وينتفع، ومن لم يكن فيه استعداد يقول لو رأينا مرشدا حقا لتمسكنا بذيله ولتعلقنا به، ولا نْتفعنا ولسلكنا. والذي وفقه اللّٰه وقابلته عناية اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى يجد المرشد أقرب إليه من أن يطلبه. فلهذا أخبر تبارك وتعالى أن الإيمان بالمشيئة ليس بالآيات، فالآيات ظاهرة عيانا، ولكن لا يراها إلا الموفقون ( وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَيِءٍ عَدْوَالَه كما جعلنا هؤلاء أعداءك جعلنا لكل نبي عدوا، جعل اللّٰه لآدم إبليس، وجعل لنوح كنعان ابنه، وجعل لإبراهيم نمرود، وجعل لموسى فرعون، وجعل لعيسى اليهود، وجعل لمحمد أبا جهل وقومه، وكذلك …

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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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