Q 12:54 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

بِهِۦٓ فَلَمَّا إِنَّكَ لَدَيْنَا

And the king said: Bring him unto me that I may attach him to my person. And when he had talked with him he said: Lo! thou art to-day in our presence established and trusted — 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 Yūsuf begins at vol. 5, p. 18 (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 27, ¶9 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 39 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

لا بد تقتلني؟ قال: لابد أقتلك، قال: إذاً أقول كلمة قبل أن تقتلني، أقول: ألا إني أُكِلتُ يوم أُكل الثور الأبيض، فقتله[1]. هذا مثال النفس مع القلب والعقل والروح، إذا اتفقوا تغلبوا على النفس، وإذا غفلوا تدخلت بينهم ففرقتهم، فتقتل القلب ثم تقتل العقل ثم تستولي على الروح ولا منازع لها فيه (إِنَّ اَ۬لنَّفْسَ لَأَمَّارَةُۢ بِالسُّوٓءِ الَّا مَا رَحِمَ رَبِّيَۖ إِنَّ رَبِّے غَفُورٞ رَّحِيمٞۖ ) (وَقَالَ اَ۬لْمَلِكُ اُ۪يتُونِے بِهِۦٓ أَسْتَخْلِصْهُ لِنَفْسِےۖ ) لما وقف الملك على تعبير يوسف للرؤيا قال: آتوني بهذا الذي عبر الرؤيا أجعله خالصا لي دون شريك فيه. وهذه عادة الملوك كلما حصل شيء مرغوب فيه وتنافس فيه الناس لابد أن الملك يريد أن يستولي عليه ويختص به، فجاءه الرسول قال له: أجب الملك، فقام يوسف واغتسل ولبس ثيابا حسانا وصلى وجمع أهل السجن وودعهم ودعا لهم قال: اللهم أعطف قلوب الأخيار على[1]

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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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