Allah! There is no deity save Him, the Alive, the Eternal. Neither slumber nor sleep overtaketh Him. Unto Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Who is he that intercedeth with Him save by His leave? He knoweth that which is in front of them and that which is behind them, while they encompass nothing of His knowledge save what He will. His throne includeth the heavens and the earth, and He is never weary of preserving them. He is the Sublime, the Tremendous — 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 7, ¶21 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
مشربهم. وهذه الآية فيها ذِكرُ اللّٰه سبع عشرة مرة بين ظاهر وضمير: "اللَّه لَاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ هذا اسمه هو، "ألْحَىُّ" اسمه، "ألْقَيُّوم"، {لا تَاخُذُهُ} الضمير عائد إليه، {سِنَةٌ وَلَا نَوَمٌ لَهُ مَافِي السَّمَوَاتِ وَمَا في الأَرْضِ} الضمير عائد إليه {مَن ذَا الَذِ يَشْفَعُ عِندَهُ} الضمير عائد إلى الله تبارك وتعالى {إلاَّ بِإِذْنِهِ} {يَعْلَمْ} هو {مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ وَلَا يُحِيطُونَ بِشَيءٍ مِنْ عِلْمِهِ} عائد إلى اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى {إلاَّ بِمَا شَاءَ }(الله) {وَسِعَ كُرْسِيُّهُ السَّمَوَٰت وَالأَرْضَ وَلا يَئُودُهُ } عائد إليه {حفْظُهُمَا} فاعل المصدر ضمير مستتر عائد إليه وَهَوَ الْعَلِيُّ الْعَظِيمْ) هذه سبعة عشر اسما لله في آية واحدة لا يوجد في القرآن إلا في آية الكرسي فلهذا جاءت أعظم الآيات. التفاضل ليس إلا في حق اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، في جانب
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 7, ¶72 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
قال: وعيسى يأتيه الموت؟ قالوا: نعم، قال: ألستم تعلمون أن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى قادر أن يصور الناس في الأرحام وعيسى ليس له شيء من ذلك؟ قالوا: بلى. قال: ألستم تعرفون أن الولد لا بد أن يشبه أباه والله هو الحي القيوم لا تأخذه سنة ولا نوم حي لا يموت أبدا، وعيسى حملته أمه كما تحمل النساء ووضعته كما تضع النساء وأرضعته كما ترضع النساء وكان يأكل ويشرب ويحدث؟ قالوا: بلى. قال: تعلمون أن عيسى ادعى النصارى أنّهم قتلوه وعجز عن الدفع عن نفسه، والله تبارك وتعالى حي باق. قالوا: نعم. فأتت سبعون آية من
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.