Q 2:74 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

ثُمَّ مِّنۢ ذَٰلِكَ فَهِيَ أَوَ وَإِنَّ مِنَ لَمَا مِنْهُ وَإِنَّ مِنْهَا لَمَا مِنْهُ وَإِنَّ مِنْهَا لَمَا مِنْ وَمَا عَمَّا

Then, even after that, your hearts were hardened and became as rocks, or worse than rocks, for hardness. For indeed there are rocks from out which rivers gush, and indeed there are rocks which split asunder so that water floweth from them. And indeed there are rocks which fall down for the fear of Allah. Allah is not unaware of what ye do 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, ¶29 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

( يَحْي اللَّهُ أُلْمَوْتَبى) اللّٰه الذي أحي هذا الإنسان بعد ما قتل هكذا يحيي الموتى كلا، من قدر على إحياء واحد قادر على إحياء الجماعة (وَيُرِيكُمُ عايَتِهِ) دلائل قدرته ( لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ) تتدبرون فتعلمون أن القادر على إحياء نفس واحدة قادر على إحياء نفوس كثيرة فتومنون (ثُمَّ قَسَتْ قُلْوبُكُم) أيها اليهود صلبت عن قبول الحق (مِنْ بَعْدِ ذَلِكَ) المذكور من إحياء القتيل وما قبله من الآيات بَهِيَ) القلوب (كَالْحِجَارَةِ) في القسوة (أَوَ اشَدُّ قَسْوَةً) منها، فهذه القلوب قاسية كالحجارة أو أشد قسوة من الحجارة، يقول الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: (إن هذه القلوب تصدأ كما يصدأ الحديد، قالوا: فما جلاؤها يا رسول الله؟ قال: تلاوة القرآن وكثرة ذكر اللّٰه وذكر الموت)[25]، إذا قسا القلب ومات لكثرة الغفلة أو لكثرة الذنوب يحتاج الإنسان إلى إحيائه، فإذا ضربه بكلمة لا إله إلا اللّٰه محمد رسول اللّٰه وتلاوة القرآن وخلاء البطن والمناجاة بالصلاة في الليل ربما نموت النفس فيحي القلب "يَخْرِجُ الْحَىَّ

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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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