Q 18:26 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

بِمَا لَهُۥ بِهِۦ مَا لَهُم مِّن مِنْ وَلَا فِے

Say: Allah is Best Aware how long they tarried. His is the Invisible of the heavens and the earth. How clear of sight is He and keen of hearing! They have no protecting friend beside Him, and He maketh none to share in His government — 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, ¶38 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الشمسية، فلهذا كلما مضى ثلاثائة سنة شمسية تكون ثلاثمائة وتسع سنين قمرية (فُلِ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمْ بِمَا لَيِثَوَا ممن اختلفوا فيه وهو ما تقدم (لَهُۥ غَيْبُ اُ۬لسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَالَارْضِۖ) أي علمه (أَبْصِرْ بِهِ ) ما أبصره ( وَأَسْيِغُ) به ما أسمعه يعني الله، اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى لا يغيب عنه شيء ولا يغيب عن سمعه شيء فلهذا تعجب من سمعه وبصره. ليس له عين باصرة كالمخلوقات، وليس له أذن سامعة وهو يسمع كل شيء ويبصر كل شيء. ما سَمْعه؟ هو تجليه الذي أحاط بكل مسموع. وما بصره؟ هو تجليه الذي أحاط بكل شيء مبصر. ما أبصره وما أسمعه وليس له سمع ولا بصر تعالى عن ذلك علوا كبيرا ( مَا لَهُم) أهل السماوات والأرض (صِ دُونِهِ، مِنْ وَلِيّ) ناصر (وَلا يُشْرِكُ فِي حُكْيِهِة أَحَدار لأنه غني عن الشريك. اللّه تبارك وتعالى لا شريك له هو أغنى الشركاء عن الشرك. والرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم يقول: (إن أخوف ما أخاف عليكم الشرك الأصغر) [2] العمل المشترك لا يتقبله اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى والقلب المشترك لا يقبل اللّٰه إليه، هذا لا …

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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. Passages 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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