Sūrat Al-Anfāl · 8 : 25

Q 8:25 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَّا اَ۬لذِينَ مِنكُمْ أَنَّ

And guard yourselves against a chastisement which cannot fall exclusively on those of you who are wrong-doers, and know that Allah is severe in punishment — 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-Anfāl begins at vol. 4, p. 30 (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 20, ¶89 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

عنه (وَهُم مُعْرِضُونُ) عن قبوله عنادا وجحودا. أخبر تبارك وتعالى أنه لو علم فيهم خيرا لأسمعهم ولو أسمعهم لانتفعوا، ولكن لما لم يعلم فيهم خيرا، أي لم يكن فيهم خير أصلا، منعهم من السماع، ولو سمعوا لفازوا حيث يقولون يوم القيامة "لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعْقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِي أَصْحَبِ السَّعِيرِ" لو علم اللّٰه فيهم خيرا أبلغ من لو كان فيهم خير لأن شيئا لم يعلمه اللّٰه لا وجود له. أخبر تبارك وتعالى أنه ما علم فيهم خيرا، فلهذا ما أسمعهم القرآن ولما لم يكن فيهم خير لو سمعوا القرآن لأعرضوا عنه لا يقبلونه (يَأَيُّهَا ألذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ إسْتَجِيبُواْ لِلهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ) بالطاعة (إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ) من أمر الدين لأنه سبب الحياة الأبدية (وَاعْلَمُوٓاْ أَنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ يَحُولُ بَيْنَ اَ۬لْمَرْءِ وَقَلْبِهِۦ) فلا يستطيع أن يؤمن أو يكفر إلا بإرادته (وَنَّة إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ) فيجازيكم بأعمالكم (وَاتَّفُواْ مِتْنَةَ) إن أصابتكم (لاَّ تُصِيبَنَّ ألذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مِنكُمْ خَاصَّةً) بل …

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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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