Q 25:10 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَ۬لذِےٓ إِن لَكَ مِّن ذَٰلِكَ مِن لَّكَ

Blessed is He Who, if He will, will assign thee better than (all) that - Gardens underneath which rivers flow - and will assign thee mansions — 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-Furqān begins at vol. 7, p. 18 (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 36, ¶45 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

لَوْلَا أنزِلَ إِلَيْهِ مَلَكٌ فَيَكُونَ مَعَهُو نَذِيراً آوْ يُلْفِىّ إِلَيْهِ كَنزُّ) من السماء ينفقه ولا يحتاج إلى المشي في الأسواق لطلب المعاش ( آوْ تَكُولُ لَهُو جَنَّةٌ بستان (يَاكُلُ مِنْهَا وَقَالَ ألظَّلِمُونَ إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلاَّ رَجْلًا مَسْحُوراً) مخدوعا مغلوبا على عقله. أرادوا أن النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم لا يكون من جنس البشر، بل يكون ملكا والملك لا يأكل ولا يشرب فلهذا قالوا «مَالِ هَٰذَا الرَسُولِ يَاكُلُ الطَّعَامَ» هلا كان ملكا لا يأكل ولا يشرب؟ أو إن كان من جنس البشر يكون ملكا لا أقل من أن يكون ملكا إن لم يكن ملكا؛ أما مسكين يمشي في الأسواق يتطلب معاشه لا ينبغي أن يكون هو رسول الله، نحن لا نرضى إلا بأن يكون الرسول ملكا لا يأكل، أو ملِكا لا يبذل نفسه في السوق وتطلُّب المعاش في الطرق، هذا شأن المساكين «اَوْ تَكُونُ لَهُۥ جَنَّةࣱ يَاكُلُ مِنْهَاۖ» كما تفعل الملوك، جعلوا عظمة القدر بالمال والدرجات الدنيوية، والأمر ليس كذلك، إنما هو بالتقرب إلى اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى …

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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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