Q 3:29 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اِن مَا فِے أَوْ مَا فِے وَمَا فِے عَلَيٰ

Say, (O Muhammad): Whether ye hide that which is in your breasts or reveal it, Allah knoweth it. He knoweth that which is in the heavens and that which is in the earth, and Allah is Able to do all things 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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Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 8, ¶38 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 46 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

وَاد كُنْتَمْ تُجِبُونَ اللَّهَ فَاتَبِعُونِ يُحْبِبْكُمْ أللَّهِ ) بمعنى أنه يثيبكم {وَيَغْمِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنَوبَكُمُ وَالله غَبَورَ لمن اتبعني ما سلف منه قبل ذلك (رَحِيمٌ) به. هذا دليل على أن من أحب الله يقتدي برسول الله صلى اللّه عليه وسلم. علامة محبة اللّٰه هي طاعة رسوله صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم. اللّه قرن طاعته بطاعة رسوله: "مَنْ يُطِعِ الرَسُولَ بَفَدَ آطَاعَ اللَّةَ" وجعل علامة محبته هي طاعة الرسول صلى اللّه عليه وسلم وهذا واضح من أحب شخصا يحب جميع أحبابه والمتعلقين به، من يحبب حبيبا أحب ملابسيه من الأنام. مجنون ليلى لما اشتدت محبته في ليلى رأى كلبا في البيداء فكساه ثوبا فلما خوطب في ذلك قال: إن عيني رأته مرة في حي ليلى. إذاً من أحب الله، حبيب اللّه هو رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم «اِن كُنتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اَ۬للَّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِے يُحْبِبْكُمُ اُ۬للَّهُ» من أحب اللّه فليتبع الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم. من ادعى محبة اللّٰه وهو يترك طريقة النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فهو مدع كاذب.[1]

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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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