Q 11:63 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِن عَلَيٰ مِّن مِنْهُ فَمَنْ مِنَ إِنْ فَمَا

He said: O my people! Bethink you: if I am (acting) on clear proof from my Lord and there hath come unto me a mercy from Him, who will save me from Allah if I disobey Him? Ye would add to me naught save perdition — 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 Hūd begins at vol. 4, p. 193 (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 25, ¶71 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 196 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

كانوا يشتغلون بعمارة الدنيا يبنون في الصخور ويبنون في السهول، وكل ما أعطى اللّٰه لابن آدم له لا عليه إلا شيئا صرفه في الماء والطين، البنيان. البنيان قسمان: من بنى قدر حاجته وقدر حاجة عياله ومنازل الضيف، هذا بنيان صالح، لا يسكن فيه هو ولا عياله ولا أحد من خلق اللّه إلا وكتبت له حسنات حتى يؤول خرابا، ومن بنى فوق حاجته وتطاول في البنيان إنما يهلك ماله في الماء والطين ويكون حسرة عليه يوم القيامة، وهم استعمرهم اللّه في الدنيا اشتغلوا بعمارة الدنيا (قَالُواْ يَٰصَٰلِحُ قَدْ كُنتَ فِينَا مَرْجُوّاࣰ) يا صالح أنت لما كنت صغيرا كنا نرجو أنك إن عشت ستكون سيدا، رجاء محقق قَبْلَ هَذآ الذي صدر منك، قبل أن تقول هذا كنت مرجوا فينا ( أَتَنْهِيْنَآ أَن تَعْبُدَ مَا يَعْبُدْ ءَابَآونَا تريد أن تمنعنا من عبادة الأوثان ( وَإِنَّنَا لَصِح شَكٍ مِمَّا تَدْعُونَا إِلَيْهِ وهذا التوحيد الذي تدعو إليه نحن لا نثق به ( مُرِيب) موقع في الريب ( قَالَ يَقَوْمٍ أَزَيْتُمْ إِن كُنتُ عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَةِ بيان (مِّن رَّبِّے …

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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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