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Keep to forgiveness (O Muhammad), and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant — 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-Aʿrāf begins at vol. 3, p. 191 (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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 20, ¶39 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
المعروف (وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْجَهِلِينَ) أمره اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى أن يكون كثير العفو عن الناس ويأمرهم بالمعروف ويعرض عن الجاهلين فلا يقابلهم بسفههم. سألوا عائشة عن خلق رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم قالت: أما تقرأون القرآن؟ كان خلقه القرآن.
Read in context →Here the verse warrants a claim argued from other authorities. It is not the object of commentary.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 44, ¶157 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
ادفع السيئة بالخصلة التي هي أحسن، التخلق بمكارم الأخلاق أن تدفع السيئة بالتي هي أحسن الغضب بالصبر والجهل بالحلم والإساءة بالعفو. من مكارم الأخلاق أن تعفو عمن ظلمك وتصل من قطعك وتعطي من حرمك 1. وهذا صعب على النفس (فَإِذَا اَ۬لذِے بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُۥ عَدَٰوَةࣱ كَأَنَّهُۥ وَلِيٌّ حَمِيمࣱۖ) إذا كان الإنسان يسيئ إليك وتحسن إليه ويقطعك وتصله ويظلمك وتعفو عنه ينقلب صديقا بعدما كان عدوا (وَمَا يُلَقِّيْهَا) لا يعطى هذه الخصلة (إِلَّ الذِينَ صَبَرْوا) لابد من الصبر (وَمَا يُلَقّ۪يٰهَآ إِلَّا ذُو حَظٍّ عَظِيمࣲۖ) غضب عمر بن الخطاب رضي اللّه عنه غضبا شديدا فقال له بعض الصحابة " خُذِ ٱلْعَفْوَ وَامُرْ بِالْعُرْفِ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْجَٰهِلِينَ" ما معنى هذا؟ وكان عمر وقافا عند كتاب اللّه تبارك وتعالى فكظم غيظه وعفا عمن ظلمه 2 «وَمَا يُلَقِّيْهَا إِلاَّ ذُو حَظِ» ثواب «عَظِيمٌ» (وَإِمَّا يَنزَغَنَّكَ مِنَ
Read in context →Lesson 44 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 40:1–Q 41:46) 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.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 44, ¶159 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
ج118/3. وقد تقدم في الدروس 22 ،21 ،10 ،6 و 39.
Read in context →Lesson 44 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 40:1–Q 41:46) 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.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 44, ¶163 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
يقطع المسافة مرة واحدة وكلف نفسه جميع الشدائد، هذا هو المنبت لا أرضا قطع ولا ظهرا أبقى. المسافر على ظهر جمله إذا أراد أن يقطع المسافة كلا في وقت واحد لا يفعل ويقتل جمله. (وَمِنَ اٰيَٰتِهِۦٓ أَنَّكَ تَرَي اَ۬لَارْضَ خَٰشِعَةࣰ) يابسة لا نبات فيها ( فَإِذَا أَنزَلْنَا
Read in context →Lesson 44 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 40:1–Q 41:46) 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.