Volume III · Lessons 13–19
Al-Nisāʾ – Al-Aʿrāf (Q. 4:148–7:170)
Revised 10-vol. compiled Arabic edition (Majmaʿ al-Yamāma, Tunis 2010)
Q. 4:148–5:22
Lesson 13 opens with Q. 4:148 ('God does not love the public utterance of evil except by one who has been wronged'), whose…
Q. 5:23–81
Lesson 14 covers the Israelites' refusal to enter the Holy Land, with Shaykh Ibrāhīm focusing on the courage of Yūshaʿ b. Nūn…
Q. 5:82–6:35
Lesson 15 opens with the distinction between the Jews and the Christians in their relations with the Muslim community (Q.…
Q. 6:36–110
Lesson 16 covers a substantial portion of al-Anʿām, one of the Qurʾānic suras most heavily freighted with theological argument.…
Q. 6:111–165
Lesson 17 addresses the divine argument about free will and hidāya (guidance). He notes that had God sent angels, raised the…
Q. 7:1–87
Lesson 18 opens with the disconnected letters Alif Lām Mīm Ṣād, which Shaykh Ibrāhīm treats as divine secrets whose full…
Q. 7:88–170
Lesson 19 centres on the narrative of Shuʿayb and the people of Madyan (Q. 7:85–93), whose story Shaykh Ibrāhīm reads as a…