Q 27:18 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

حَتَّيٰٓ إِذَآ عَلَيٰ لَا سُلَيْمَٰنُ وَهُمْ لَا

Till, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant exclaimed: O ants! Enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his armies crush you, unperceiving — 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-Naml begins at vol. 7, p. 85 (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 37, ¶103 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يحلقون فوقهم يمنعوهم من حر الشمس، والريح يطيرها إلى حيث شاء غدوها شهر ورواحها شهر (حَتَّيٰٓ إِذَآ أَتَوْاْ عَلَيٰ وَادِ اِ۬لنَّمْلِ) هو بالطائف أو بالشام ( قَالَتْ نَمْلَةٌ ملكة النمل وقد رأت جند سليمان (يَٰٓأَيُّهَا اَ۬لنَّمْلُ اُ۟دْخُلُواْ مَسَٰكِنَكُمْ لَا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ) لا يكسرنكم اِسَلَيْمَنُ وَجْنُودُهُ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ) سمعها سليمان على رأس ثلاثة أميال 1 فأمر الجيش أن يقفوا فأوقفوا دوابهم كلا، فسار سليمان وحده حتى أتى للنملة وقال: أنت تتهمينني بالظلم؟ قالت: لا، قال: لم قلتِ «اُ۟دْخُلُواْ مَسَٰكِنَكُمْ لَا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمَٰنُ وَجُنُودُهُۥ»؟ قالت: أوَما سمعتَ قولي « وَهُمْ لا يَشْعُرُونَ»؟ وأنا لا أعني ما تعني، لا أعني الحطم الحسي أعني الحطم المعنوي أن ينظروا فيما عندك من الدنيا فيميلوا عن ذكر اللّٰه ويشتغلوا بحب ما عندك من الدنيا، هذا هو الذي أعني (جَتَبَسَّمَ ضَاحِكاً) أول الضحك إلى آخره موصِّ فَوْلِهَا وَقَالَ رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِيَ) ألهمني ( أَنَ اشْكَرَ …

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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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