Q 2:243 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

۞أَلَمْ إِلَي اَ۬لذِينَ مِن وَهُمُۥٓ لَهُمُ ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَذُو عَلَي وَلَٰكِنَّ لَا

Bethink thee (O Muhammad) of those of old, who went forth from their habitations in their thousands, fearing death, and Allah said unto them: Die; and then He brought them back to life. Lo! Allah is a Lord of Kindness to mankind, but most of mankind give not thanks — 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 6, ¶104 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أَلَمْ ثَرَ) استفهام تعجب وتشويق إلى استماع ما بعده، ألم ينته علمك إِلَى الدين خَرَجُواْ مِ دِبْرِهِمْ وَهُمْدَ اللُوفُ) أربعة آلاف أو ثمانية آلاف أو عشرة آلاف أو ندجة ألفا أو أربعون ألفا أو سبعون ألفا[59] (حَذَرَ ألْمَوْتِ وقع الطاعون في أرضهم فخرجوا فيل من الموت وهم قوم من بني إسرائيل قوم حزقيل نبي اللّٰه (فَقَالَ لَهُمُ أَللَّهُ مُوتُوا) فلما فوا حتى بعدوا عن بلادهم ثمانية أيام قيل لهم موتوا فماتوا جميعا (ثُمَّ أَحْياهُمْ ) بعد ثمائية أيام بدعاء نبيهم حزقيل صار حزقيل يدعو اللّه ويتضرع له حتى بعثوا كلا فعاشوا دهرا عليهم أثر الموت لا يجدون ثوبا إلا عاد كالكفن، الرائحة القبيحة التي تشمها في اليهود إلى الآن من تلك الموتة إِنَّ أَلَّهِ لَذُو بَصْلٍ عَلَى أَلتَّاس) ومنه إحياء هولاء (وَلَكِنَّ أَحْر النَّاسِ) وهم الكفار (لا يَشْكُرُون) والقصد من ذكر خبر هؤلاء تشجيع المؤمنين على القتال. اللّٰه يريد أن يأمرنا بالجهاد والنفس تخاف من الموت فقص هذه القصة. الذين فروا من الموت لما قال لهم اللّه …

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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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