Q 21:44 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

بَلْ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ حَتَّيٰ عَلَيْهِمُ أَفَلَا أَنَّا مِنَ أَفَهُمُ

Nay, but We gave these and their fathers ease until life grew long for them. See they not how we aim to the land, reducing it of its outlying parts? Can they then be the victors — 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-Anbiyāʾ begins at vol. 6, p. 107 (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 33, ¶113 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 84 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

مما يسوؤهم (ص دُونِتَا) هل لهم آلهة غير الله؟ لا، لا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ) الآلهة (نَصْرَ أَنْسِهِمْ الآلهة سيصيرون إلى النار ولا يقدرون على أن ينصروا أنفسهم فكيف بغيرهم (وَلا هُم مِنَّا يُصْحَبُونَ) يجارون، يقال: صحبك اللّٰه أي حفظك وأجارك (بَلْ مَتَّعْنَا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ وَءَابَآءَهُمْ) بما أنعمنا عليهم (حَتَّىٰ طَالَ عَلَيْهِمْ الْعُمُرْ) فاغتروا بذلك ( أَبَلاَ يَرَوْتَ أَنَّا نَاتِهِ الارْضَ) نقصد أرضهم (نَنقُصُهَا مِنَ اَطْرَافِهَآۖ أَفَهُمُ اُ۬لْغَٰلِبُونَۖ) بالفتح على النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، لو نظروا أن اللّٰه ينقص الأرض لعلموا أنّهم سيهلكون عن آخرهم.

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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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