Sūrat Maryam · 19 : 10

Q 19:10 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لِّيَ أَلَّا

He said: My Lord! Appoint for me some token. He said: Thy token is that thou, with no bodily defect, shalt not speak unto mankind three nights — 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 Maryam begins at vol. 6, p. 40 (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 32, ¶14 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 40 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

غريب وعجيب، فلهذا استغرب هذا ليس من باب قدرة اللّٰه ولكن من باب العادة «بَلَغْتُ مِنَ الْكِبَر عُتِيّاً» قال المفسر [1] مائة وعشرين سنة وبلغت امرأته ثمانا وتسعين سنة كيف تجد ولدا؟ يسأل كيف يكون الولد هل هو من الهرمين أم من زوجة أخرى أم من جارية أم من هذه العجوز؟ (قَالَ ) الملك الأمر (كَذَّلِكَ) الله يخلق الغلام منكما من الهرمين من هذا الشيخ الكبير ومن هذه العجوز العاقر يخرج اللّٰه منكما الولد (قَالَ رَبُّكَ هُوَ علَىٰ هَيِنَ) بأن أرد عليك قوة الجماع وأفتق رحم امرأتك للعلوق (وَقَدْ خَلَقْتُكَ مِن قَبْل وَلَ تَكْ شَيْناه أتى بالحجة على أن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى هين عليه هذا بقوله «وَقَدْ خَلَقْتُكَ مِن قَبْلُ وَلَمْ تَكُ شَئْاࣰۖ» أوجد ذاته من العدم، وأعطاه صفة، هذا أصعب من أن يرد عليه صفه فقط. زكرياء كان عدما ليس بشيء، هذا دليل على أن العدم ليس بشيء «وَلَمْ تَكُ شَيْنَ» كان ليس بشيء أوجده اللّٰه ذاتا وأوجد له صفات منها القوة على الجماع وسلبه هذه الصفات، ردُّ هذه الصفات بحالتها أيسر من إيجاد …

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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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