Q 6:157 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

أَوْ لَوَ اَنَّآ عَلَيْنَا مِنْهُمْۖ فَقَدْ مِّن فَمَنَ مِمَّن عَنْهَاۖ اِ۬لذِينَ عَنَ بِمَا

Or lest ye should say: If the Scripture had been revealed unto us, we surely had been better guided than are they. Now hath there come unto you a clear proof from your Lord, a guidance and mercy; and who doeth greater wrong than he who denieth the revelations of Allah, and turneth away from them? We award unto those who turn away from Our revelations an evil doom because of their aversion — 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, ¶78 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

قراء هم أي لغتهم لَغَاعِلِينَ لولا أن القرآن نزل لاحتجت هذه الأمة وقالوا أنزلت الكتب على اليهود والنصارى ونحن لا نعرف قراءتها، فسدت هذه الحجة بنزول القرآن بلغتهم (أَنْ تَقُولُوا لَوْانَا أنزِلَ عَلَيْنَا ألْكِتَبْ لَكُنَّا أَهْبِئ مِنْهَمْ لولا أن القرآن نزل وقال العرب أنهم أجود أذهانا من العجم، لو جاءهم كتاب لرزقوا من الهداية ما لم يرزقوا ( جَفَدْ جَاءَكُم بِيِنَة ) بيان دِ رَبِكُمْ وَهْدىً وَرَحْمَةُ) والآن هذا القرآن بين أيديكم بلغتكم فما تقولون؟ (جَمَرَ اظلَم) لا أحد أظلم (مِمَّن كَذَّبَ بِـَٔايَٰتِ اِ۬للَّهِ وَصَدَفَ عَنْهَاۖ) أعرض ( سَنَجْزُ الِذِينَ يَصْدِفُونَ عَرَ ايَتِنَا سُوءَ الْعَذَّابِ أشده (بِمَا كَانُواْ يَصْدِبُونَ) يعرضون عن القرآن ( قَلَ يَنْظَرُونَ ) هل ينتظر المكذبون بالقرآن (إِلَّ أَن تَاتِيَهُمْ الْمَلِّيِكَةً) لقبض أرواحهم

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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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