Or think ye that ye will enter paradise while yet there hath not come unto you the like of (that which came to) those who passed away before you? Affliction and adversity befell them, they were shaken as with earthquake, till the messenger (of Allah) and those who believed along with him said: When cometh Allah's help? Now surely Allah's help is nigh — 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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Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 6, ¶21 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
البلاء (حَتَّىٰ يَقُول الرَّسُول) حتى قال الرسول (وَالذِيرَ ءَامَنُوا مَعَهُ ) استبطاء للنصر لتناهي الشدة عليهم (مَتَىٰ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ) متى يأتي نصر اللّٰه الذي وعدناه؟ فأجيبوا من قِبل اللّه (أَلَآ إِنَّ نَصْرَ اَ۬للَّهِ قَرِيبࣱۖ) قريب إتيانه، هذه سنة اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى "وَلَى تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 39, ¶4 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 145 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
من رق الأغيار ويطهر باطنه فيقوم بأعمال صالحة تقربه إلى اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى وذلك لطف اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى حتى يتحقق بأن ما سوى اللّٰه غير موجود، ويتحقق بمجده ( احَسِبَ النَّاسُ أَنْ يُتْرَكُواْ أَنْ يَقُولُواْ ءَامَنَّا وَهُمْ لا يُفْتَنُونَ) سبب نزولها أن المشركين كانوا يوذونَ المسلمين في بداية أمرهم أشد الإذاية، كل من آمن بالله تسلطوا عليه بأخذ ماله وضربه وتمزيق ملابسه وسبه، وكل أنواع الإذاية، فشكوا إلى النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، فقال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم "امْ حَسِبْتُمْرَ أَن تَدْخُلُواْ الْجَنَّةَ وَلَمَّا يَاتِكُم مَثَلُّ أَلذِينَ خَلَوْاْ مِ فَبْلِكُم" (قد كان من قبلكم يؤخذ الرجل فيحفر له في الأرض فيجعل فيها فيجاء بالمنشار فيوضع على رأسه فيجعل نصفين ويمشط بأمشاط الحديد ما دون لحمه وعظمه فما يصدده
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.