And when ye said: O Moses! We are weary of one kind of food; so call upon thy Lord for us that He bring forth for us of that which the earth groweth - of its herbs and its cucumbers and its corn and its lentils and its onions. He said: Would ye exchange that which is higher for that which is lower? Go down to settled country, thus ye shall get that which ye demand. And humiliation and wretchedness were stamped upon them and they were visited with wrath from Allah. That was because they disbelieved in Allah's revelations and slew the prophets wrongfully. That was for their disobedience and transgression — 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 4, ¶5 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
مؤكدة لعاملها، أخبر تبارك وتعالى أن موسى عليه الصلاة والسلام لما كان في التيه مع بني إسرائيل عطشوا وطلبوا منه الاستسقاء، وهذا الفرق بين بني إسرائيل وبين أمة محمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فإن الأمم قبلنا ليس لهم أن يطلبوا شيئا من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، إذا أرادوا طلبا أي طلب يأتون لنبي ذلك الزمان وهو الذي يطلب من اللّه تبارك وتعالى مباشرة دل عليه استسقاء موسى لقومه (وَإِذْ قُلْتُمْ يَٰمُوس۪يٰ لَن نَّصْبِرَ عَلَيٰ طَعَامࣲ وَٰحِدࣲ فَادْعُ لَنَا رَبَّكَ يُخْرِجْ لَنَا مِمَّا تُنۢبِتُ اُ۬لَارْضُ مِنۢ بَقْلِهَا وَقِثَّآئِهَا وَفُومِهَا) كل هذا ليس لهم أن يطلبوه مباشرة من اللّه تبارك وتعالى وهذه الأمة أعطاهم اللّٰه الإذن المطلق في الدعاء، قال "وَسْئَلُواْ أللَّهَ مِن بَضْلِةِ:" وقال "مدْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكْمُ " أينا عرضت له مهمة أو حاجة يسأل اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى فيستجيب له. طلبوا السقيا من موسى عليه الصلاة والسلام - وكان موسى رجلا ستّيرا ذا مروءة وحياء في قومه، وقومه يتجردون عند الاغتسال 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.