It is made lawful for you to go in unto your wives on the night of the fast. They are raiment for you and ye are raiment for them. Allah is Aware that ye were deceiving yourselves in this respect and He hath turned in mercy toward you and relieved you. So hold intercourse with them and seek that which Allah hath ordained for you, and eat and drink until the white thread becometh distinct to you from the black thread of the dawn. Then strictly observe the fast till nightfall and touch them not, but be at your devotions in the mosques. These are the limits imposed by Allah, so approach them not. Thus Allah expoundeth His revelation to mankind that they may ward off (evil) — 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-Baqara begins at vol. 1, p. 54(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 5, ¶113 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 120 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
سَفَرِ فَعِدَّةٌ مِنَ أيَّامِ أخْرَ تقدم مثله (يُرِيدُ اُ۬للَّهُ بِكُمُ اُ۬لْيُسْرَ وَلَا يُرِيدُ بِكُمُ اُ۬لْعُسْرَۖ وَلِتُكْمِلُواْ اُ۬لْعِدَّةَ وَلِتُكَبِّرُواْ اُ۬للَّهَ عَلَيٰ مَا هَد۪يٰكُمْ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَۖ وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِے عَنِّے فَإِنِّے قَرِيبٌۖ) سئل النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: اللَّه قريب فنناجيه أم بعيد فناديه جهارا؟ قل إن قريب[52] {أحيبُ دَعْوَةَ التَّاعِ" إِذَا دَعَابٍ» جَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا لِ وَلْيَومِنُوأ بِىَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشَدُونٌ أجلَّ لَكُمْ لَيْلَةَ الصِيَامِ الرَّجَتْ نزل لما كان في صدر الإسلام من تحريم الجماع ليلا وقت رمضان «أُحِلَّ لَكُمْ لَيْلَةَ اَ۬لصِّيَامِ اِ۬لرَّفَثُ» الإفضاء (إِلَى نِسَآئِكُمْ)) بالجماع (هَرَّ لِبَاس لَكُمْ وَأَنتَمْ لِبَاسٌ لَهَنَّ كناية عن تعانقهما (عَلِمَ اَ۬للَّهُ أَنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ تَخْتَانُونَ أَنفُسَكُمْ)
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.