Q 24:39 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَالذِينَ حَتَّيٰٓ إِذَا لَمْ

As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are as a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one supposeth it to be water till he cometh unto it and findeth it naught, and findeth, in the place thereof, Allah Who payeth him his due; and Allah is swift at reckoning — 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-Nūr begins at vol. 6, p. 190 (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 23, ¶6 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

عنهم، لأنهم إن رضوا عنهم فإن اللّٰه لا يرضى عنهم. وهم لا ينبغي أن يرضوا إلا عمن رضي اللّٰه عنه. أما من غضب اللّه عليه فلا ينبغي أن يرضوا عنه، أو لا ينفعهم رضاهم إذا لم يرض عنهم الله تبارك وتعالى، ورضى اللّٰه مفقود عنهم فلا ينفعهم رضى المسلمين ولا ينبغي للمسلمين أن يرضوا عنهم أيضا لأنهم فساق. قال زين العابدين: لا تصاحب خمسة من الناس: لا تصاحب فاسقا فيبعك بلقمة أو بدونها، قال له ولده: وما دون اللقمة؟ قال يطمع فيها ولا يجدها. إن صاحبت فاسقا يبعك في لقمة أو بما دونها. ولا تصاحب بخيلا يقطعك في الوقت الذي أنت أفقر إليه، يقطعك أفقر ما تحتاج إليه. ولا تصاحب كذابا يقرب لك البعيد ويبعد لك القريب "كَسَرَابٍ بِفِيعَةٍ يَحْسِبُهُ الظَّمْئَانُ مَاءً حَتَّى إِذَا جَآءَهُ لَمْ يَجِدْهُ شَيْئًا" ولا تصاحب أحمق يريد أن ينفعك فيضرك. ولا تصاحب قاطع رحم، فإني وجدته ملعونا في كتاب اللّٰه في ثلاثة مواضع. (الاَعْرَابُ) أهل البدو { أَشَدُّ كُبْراً وَنِقَافاه من أهل المدن لجفائهم وغلظ طباعهم وبعدهم عن سماع …

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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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