Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds — 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-Fātiḥa begins at vol. 1, p. 46 (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.
Each mark is one work in which Shaykh Ibrāhīm engages this verse, placed by date of composition. Hollow marks are loci we know of but cannot yet show.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 2 · held at students’ request
Not yet ingested. Aqsām al-ḥamd; rabb al-ʿālamīn — al-ʿālam is everything other than God; the masculine plural by taghlīb. al-Rabb is the one who rears, whether by small favours or by great ones — ʿulūm, maʿārif, laṭāʾif, asrār.
Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 3 · held at students’ request
Not yet ingested. EXCURSUS 1 — five names, five pillars: al-Fātiḥa fīhā khamsat asmāʾ, kull ism yushīr ilā qāʿida min qawāʿid al-sharʿ. al-Ḥamdu lillāh → tawḥīd; rabb al-ʿālamīn → the five prayers; al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm → zakāt; mālik yawm al-dīn → ḥajj, and the fast.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 1, ¶54 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 29 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
فن الحمد، تجد في القرآن آيات تحمد اللّٰه كثيرا وتثني عليه، وفن الوعد والوعيد، وتجد في القرآن الشريعة والحقيقة، وتجد في القرآن الدعاء، وتجد فيه القصة قصص من قبلنا، وتجد فيه المواعظ والتذكير والخبر والتوحيد (الْحَمْدُ لِلهِ) اشتمل على جميع ما لله من ثناء في القرآن ومن حمد وشكر، كل ما في القرآن من الثناء على اللّٰه ومن المدائح كله استغرقه الحمد لله، (رَبِّ الْعَلَمِينَ) توحيد، (ألرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ) وعد، (مَلِكِ يَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ) وعيد،
Read in context →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.