Q 18:2 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مِّن اَ۬لذِينَ أَنَّ لَهُمُۥٓ

(But hath made it) straight, to give warning of stern punishment from Him, and to bring unto the believers who do good works the news that theirs will be a fair reward — 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-Kahf begins at vol. 6, p. 3 (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 31, ¶10 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أي لا فخر له بكونه سيد ولد آدم بل إنما فخره بعبوديته لله تبارك وتعالى، لأنه لا يكون سيدا إلا في حضرة الأغيار وأما في حضرة اللّٰه فما ثم إلا اللّٰه وهو، وهو عبد في هذا المقام، وهذا المقام هو أعلى مقاماته صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، فتجد القرآن يسمي محمدا صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم عبده في أكبر مظاهره. أكبر مظاهر محمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم مقام نزول الوحي عليه، ومقام دعوته إلى الله، ومقام الإسراء "سُبْحَن الذِي أَسْرىٰ بِعَبْدِهِ، لَيْلًا" ما قال بنبيه إنما قال بعبده؛ ومقام النزول "الحَمْدُ لِلهِ الذِي أَنزَلَ عَلَىٰ عَبْدِهِ الْكِتَبَ"؛ ومقام الدعوة إلى اللّٰه "وَإِنَّهُ لَمَّا قَامَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ يَدْعُوه". اللّٰه مستحق للحمد على كل حال حتى قال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم : (الحمد لله على كل حال) [1]، وهو المستحق للحمد لأنه هو الذي أنزل هذا الكتاب على هذا العبد، أنعم علينا بمحمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وأنعم علينا بالقرآن (وَلَمْ يَجْعَل لَهُ) أي فيه {عِوَجا} ليس في القرآن اختلاف وتناقض، بل هو كتاب …

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 31, ¶12 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

البأس في الدنيا والآخرة (وَيْبشرَ ألْمُومِنِينَ ألذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ الصَّلِحَٰتِ أَنَّ لَهُم أَجْراً حَسَنا) إنذار للكفار وتبشير للمؤمنين (مكِثينَ فيهِ) في هذا الأجر (أبَدا) هو الجنة (وَيُنذِرَ)

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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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