Sūrat Al-Naḥl · 16 : 78

Q 16:78 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مِّنۢ لَا لَكُمُ لَعَلَّكُمْ

And Allah brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers knowing nothing, and gave you hearing and sight and hearts that haply ye might give thanks — 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-Naḥl begins at vol. 5, p. 124 (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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Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 29, ¶159 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 100 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

منه لأنه بلفظ كن إِنَّ أُللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَءٍ قَدِيرٌ وَاللهُ أَخْرَجَكْم مِنَ بُطَوِبِ امَّهَيِكُمْ لا تعلّمون شَيْئام الإنسان يوند ليس عنده علم بشيء (وَجَعَلَ لَكُمُ اُ۬لسَّمْعَ وَالَابْصَٰرَ وَالَافْـِٕدَةَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَۖ) إذا ولد المولود يكون ليس له سمع ولا بصر ولا عقل فيعطيه اللّٰه سمعا يجعل له سمعا في أذنه وبصرا في عينيه وعقلا في قلبه. لم يذكر النطق لأن النطق هو آخر ما يجده المولود: يوند فيكون بصيرا سميعا ولا يتكلم إلا بعد زمان { أَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ إِلَى الظِّيْرِ مُسَخَّرَتٍ مذللات للطيران وم جَوِّ السَّمَاءِ الهواء بين السماء والأرض مَا يُمْسِكُهُنَّ ه عند قبض أجنحتهن وبسطها أن يقعن (إِلا اللَّةٌ إِنَّ مِيِ ذَلِكَ لِلَاَيَات لَفَوْمِ يُومنونَ ) هي خلقها بحيث يمكنها الطيران وخلق الجو بحيث يمكن الطيران فيه وإمسلكها {(وَاللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُم مِنْ بُيُوتِكُمْ سَكَنا موضعا تسكنون فيه {(وَجَعَلَ لَكُم مِّن جُلُودِ اِ۬لَانْعَٰمِ بُيُوتاࣰ) كالخيام والقباب ( تَسْتَخِبُّونَهَا) …

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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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