Q 23:109 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِنَّهُۥ مِّنْ لَنَا وَأَنتَ

Lo! there was a party of My slaves who said: Our Lord! We believe, therefor forgive us and have mercy on us for Thou art Best of all who show mercy — 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-Muʾminūn begins at vol. 6, p. 167 (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 35, ¶74 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

سبعة أيام) 1 "وَإِلَّ يَوْماً عِندَ رَبِّكَ كَأَلْفٍ سَنَةٍ مِمَّا تَعْدُونَ" الدنيا سبعة أيام، من آدم إلى يومنا هذا مضى سبعة آلاف سنة وعمر الدنيا مرتين إذاً أربعة عشر ألفا، وقيل اثنا عشر ألفا عمر الدنيا عدد البروج إذاً عمر الدنيا مرتين أربعة وعشرون ألفا، وقيل عمر الدنيا ثلاثمائة ألف وستة وستون ألفا عدد الأيام أيام السنة2 إذا يكون عدد عمر الدنيا ثلاثمائة ألف سنة وستة وستون ألف سنة إن كان هذا فعمر الدنيا مرتين سبعمائة ألف سنة واثنتان وثلاثون فعلى كل تقدير أمد طويل يقول أهل النار "رَبَّنَا أَخْرِجْنَا مِنْهَا بَإِنْ عُدْنَا بَإِنَّا ظَلِمُونُ" لم يجدوا أي جواب في تلك المدة الطويلة، وبعد عمر الدنيا مرتين على أي من التقديرات أجيبوا: (قَالَ آَخْسَثُواْ فِيهَا) أبعدوا في النار أذلاء (وَلَا تُكَلِّمُونِ) بعد هذا فانقطع رجاؤهم (إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ فَرِيقࣱ مِّنْ عِبَادِے) هم المهاجرون (يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَآ ءَامَنَّا فَاغْفِرْ لَنَا وَارْحَمْنَا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ اُ۬لرَّٰحِمِينَ فَاتَّخَذتُّمُوهُمْ …

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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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