Q 30:29 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

بَلِ اَ۬لذِينَ فَمَنْ مَنَ وَمَا لَهُم مِّن

Nay, but those who do wrong follow their own lusts without knowledge. Who is able to guide him whom Allah hath sent astray? For such there are no helpers — 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-Rūm begins at vol. 7, p. 178 (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 39, ¶129 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 145 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الجبال لأن الحديد يكسر الجبال، والنار اقوى من الحديد لأن النار تلين الحديد، والماء أقوى من النار لأنه يطفئها، والسحاب أقوى من الماء لأن السحاب تحمل الماء، والرياح أقوى من السحاب لأن الرياح تسوق السحاب، والإنسان أقوى من الرياح، تجد الرياح تسقط الدور وتمر بصبي لا تقدر أن تسقطه، الإنسان اقوى من الرياح يثبت الإنسان للريح، والنوم أقوى من الإنسان، والموت أقوى من النوم {وَمِ ايَتِهِ يُرِبكُمُ أَلْبَرْقَ خَوْمَاه للمسافر (وَطَمَعاً) للمقيم (وَيُنَزِّلُ صَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءَ جَيْحْيِء بِهِ الأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتَهَاه بأن تنبت ( إِنَّ مِي ذَلِكَ لآيَاتٍ لِقَوْمِ يَعْقِلُونَ) العبر ولو عظمت لا يعظم موقعها إلا في قلوب العارفين. واعلم أن دولة المرء يوم القيامة بحسب سعة معرفته، كلما اتسعت معرفة الرجل اتسعت دولته في الآخرة (وَمِنَ اٰيَٰتِهِۦٓ أَن تَقُومَ اَ۬لسَّمَآءُ وَالَارْضُ بِأَمْرِهِۦۖ ثُمَّ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ دَعْوَةࣰ مِّنَ اَ۬لَارْضِ) من القبور (إِذَآ أَنتُمْ تَخْرُجُونَۖ وَلَهُۥ مَن فِے …

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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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