Q 28:68 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مَا مَا لَهُمُ عَمَّا

Thy Lord bringeth to pass what He willeth and chooseth. They have never any choice. Glorified be Allah and Exalted above all that they associate (with Him) — 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-Qaṣaṣ begins at vol. 7, p. 114 (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 38, ¶159 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ويكائيل خازن رزقك، وإسرافيل حافظ لوحك، وملك الموت قابض روحك. واله تبارك وتعالى اختار من الأوقات أربعة: المغرب والعشاء والسحر والصبح، المغرب وقت طعامك، والعشاء وقت مناجاتك قيامك لليل، والسحر وقت مناجاتك، والصبح وقت قراءتك لقرآن، «وَرَبُّكَ يَخْلَقُ مَا يَشَآءُ وَيَخْتَارٌ». كان الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم يعلمنا الاستخارة كما يعلمنا الفاتحة، إذا عزم أحد على أمر يصلي ركعتين يقرأ ب "الكافرون والإخلاص" أو آية «وَرَبُّكَ يَخْلَوُ مَا يَشَآءُ وَيَخْتَارُ) ويقرأ دعاء الاستخارة: اللهم إني أستخيرك بعلمك وأستقدرك بقدرتك إلى آخره وإن تعجل فلا أقل من أن يقول: رب خر لي واختر لي 2، رب خر لي واختر لي، إذا تعجلت عن صلاة الاستخارة فلا تقدم على شيء إلا إذا قلت رب خر لي واختر لي، «وَرَبُّكَ يَخْلُوُ مَا يَشَآءُ وَيَخْتَارٌ» قال الصوفيون:

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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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