Q 25:47 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَهُوَ اَ۬لذِے لَكُمُ

And He it is Who maketh night a covering for you, and sleep repose, and maketh day a resurrection — 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, ¶98 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

خفيا بطلوع الشمس، من آيات اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى الليل والنهار والضوء والظلمة والظل والحر (وَهُوَ ألذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ أليْلَ لِبَاسا ساترا كاللباس (وَالنَّوْمَ سُبَاتا راحة للأبدان بقطع الأعمال (وَجَعَلَ النَّهَارَ نُشُوراً) منشورا فيه لابتغاء الرزق وغيره، اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى خلق لنا الليل كاللباس في الستر، وجعل لنا النوم في الليل راحة للأبدان، وجعل النهار محل اشتغال لطلب الرزق، ومن علامة محبة اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى محبة الليل للعبادة وكراهية النهار للاجتماع بالخلق يشغلك عن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، أهل اللّٰه بدلوا العادة، اللّٰه جعل النهار وقت الأشغال والليل وقت الراحة، وأهل اللّٰه جعلوا الليل وقت الاشتغال بالله تبارك وتعالى، فصيروا الراحة تعبا في خدمة معبودهم، جعلوا الليل خلوة مع حبيبهم يناجونه، فلا يحبون النهار لاجتماعهم بالخلق فيشغلهم عن معبودهم. اختلف تلميذان واحد قال النوم أفضل للإنسان لأن النائم لا يعصي الله، قال الآخر: لا، اليقظة أفضل لأن اليقظان يخدم مولاه

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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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