Q 2:284 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مَا فِے وَمَا فِے وَإِن مَا فِےٓ أَوْ بِهِ لِمَنْ مَنْ عَلَيٰ

Unto Allah (belongeth) whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; and whether ye make known what is in your minds or hide it, Allah will bring you to account for it. He will forgive whom He will and He will punish whom He will. Allah is Able to do all things — 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, ¶63 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

إذا دعيتم لإقامتها {وَمَنْ يَكْتُمْهَا وَإِنَّهُ و ءَائِمٌ قَلْبُهُ و خُص بالذكر لأنه محل الشهادة، ولأنه إذا أثم تبعه غيره فيعاقب عليه معاقبة الآثمين. (إن في الجسد مضغة إذا صلحت صلح الجسد كله وإذا فسدت فسد الجسد كله ألا وهي القلب)[43] (وَاللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ عَلِيمٌ لا يخفى عليه شيء ({لِلهِ مَا فِى السَّمَٰوَاتِ وَمَا مِحِ الأَرْضِ وَإِن تُبْدُوا) تظهروا ومَا فِحِ أَنْمُسِكُمْ ) من السوء والعدل (أَوْ تُخْفُوه تسروه (يُحَاسِبْكُم بِهِ اللَّهُ) يوم القيامة {بَيَغْمِرْ لِمَنْ يَشَآءَ المغفرة (وَيُعَذِّبْ مَنْ يَشَآءُ( تعذيبه (وَاللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرً)) ومنه محاسبتكم وجزاؤكم؛ لما نزلت جاء أبو بكر إلى رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وقال له: إن كان اللّٰه يؤاخذنا بما في نفوسنا فإننا نهلك لا قدرة لنا على هذا، فقال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: أتريدون أن تقولوا كما قال أهل الكتابين من قبلكم سمعنا وعصينا؟ قال أبو بكر: لا، ولكن لا قدرة لنا على هذا، إن كان يؤاخذنا اللّٰه بما في …

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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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