Q 3:14 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مِنَ مِنَ ذَٰلِكَ

Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring; and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land. That is comfort of the life of the world. Allah! With Him is a more excellent abode — 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 Āl ʿImrān begins at vol. 2, p. 34 (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 7, ¶90 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(زَبِّنَ لِلتَّاسِ حُبُّ أَلشَّهَوَاتِ) ما تشتهيه النفس وتدعو إليه، زينها اللّٰه ابتلاء أو الشيطاد ذكر في هذه الآية سبعة أشياء يحبها الإنسان، سبعة أشياء فيها شهوات الإنسان، اجتم فيها الحب، وتعلم أن الإنسان يحب شيئا ولا يحب أن يحبه، كمسلم يحب محرَّما، إذا أي لا يحب أن يحبه، ويحب شيئا يحب أن يحبه وليس فيه شهوته، ويحب شيئا يحب أن يحبد وفيه شهوته، هذا أقوى، اجتمعت كلا في الآية حب الشهوات، ذكر أنّها شهوات زينت لهم وأحبوها مِنَ النِّسَاءِ) الرجل إذا بلغ أول ما يتعلق به هو أن يجد زوجة تواققه (وَالْبَنِيسَ إذا وجد زوجة يحب أن يرزقه اللّٰه أولادا (وَالْقَنَٰطِيرِ اِ۬لْمُقَنطَرَةِ مِنَ اَ۬لذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ) وإذا وجد النساء والبنين يحب أن يجد من الذهب والفضة شيئا كثيرا. والذهب تزهدك فيه كلمته من الذهاب، فإذاً كل ما تملك من الذهب لا بد أن يذهب، والفضة من الفض الذي هو التفرق كل ما تملك من الفضة لا بد أن يتفرق، النساء والبنين والذهب والفضة ( وَالْخَيْلِ الْمُسَوَّمَةِ) الأفراس سميت خيلا لخيلائها …

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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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