Q 16:90 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

۞إِنَّ ذِے عَنِ لَعَلَّكُمْ

Lo! Allah enjoineth justice and kindness, and giving to kinsfolk, and forbiddeth lewdness and abomination and wickedness. He exhorteth you in order that ye may take heed — 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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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 30, ¶8 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 144 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يقرأ الكافرون والإخلاص، في آخر خطبهم [1]، كلهم ينظر إلى ما يناسب حال أهل زمانه، وهذا هو الذي يتعين على الخطيب أن ينظر إلى ما يوافق حال زمانه فيخطب بذلك، لولا ذلك لاكتفينا كلنا بخطبة الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم. ويتعين كذلك أن تقوم الخطبة الثانية بالتحضيض والحث على الصلاة على النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، وكذلك جرت بهنا العادة من الخُطباء . «إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ يَامُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ» العدل مع اللّٰه ومع نفسك ومع كل مخلوق أشمل مما فسر به المفسر. إن اللّه خلق الإحسان في كل شيء. كل شيء عملته تحرّ حتى تأبّ بالإحسان فيه، والرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فسره بما لا مزيد عليه: (أن تعبد اللّٰه كأنك تراه) [3]. الإحسان أن يكون العبد يراقب اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى حتى يشاهده أو يشاهد أن اللّٰه مطلع على كليته. ومشاهدة اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى ليست هي الرؤية بالبصر، إنما اللّه تبارك وتعالى لا يرى بالبصر، ولكن إذا انعدم العبد في وجود الحق تبارك وتعالى أبصر الحق بالحق، أبصر العين بالعين، فتلك الرؤية هي التي أعطاها اللّٰه …

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 30, ¶18 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 144 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

وَالْمُنكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِّ يَعِظَكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَّكَّرُونُ" قال: صدقت. [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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