إِنَّ مَا فِے وَمَا مَّاذَا وَمَا إِنَّ
Lo! Allah! With Him is knowledge of the Hour. He sendeth down the rain, and knoweth that which is in the wombs. No soul knoweth what it will earn to-morrow, and no soul knoweth in what land it will die. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware — 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 Luqmān begins at vol. 7, p. 192 (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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 16, ¶48 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 122 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
لا هو، ومفاتح الغيب فسرها الحديث بآية لقمان "إِنَّ اللَّهَ عِندَهُ عِلْمُ السَّاعَةُ وَيّنَزَلَ هند وَيَعْلَمُ مَا فِ الأَرْحَامٌ وَمَا تَدْرِه نَفْسٌ مَاذَا تَكِّيبٌ عَدّاً وَمَا تَدْرِهِ نَمْسٌ يِأَتِي أَرْضِ تَمُوتٌ"
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 33, ¶90 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 84 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
غافلة (فَلُوبهَمْ)) عن معناه، لا يتفكرون في معاني القرآن (وَأَسَرُّوا التَّجْوَى الكلام وألذِينَ ظَلَمُوا ) بدل من الفاعل (هَل هَذَآ إِلاَّ بَشَرّ مثْلُكُمُ) محمد إنسان فقط كيف
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 33, ¶91 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 84 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
يكون رسولا وهو إنسان؟ ما أشد حماقتهم (أَبَتَاتُونَ السِّحْرَ) هذا سحر فقط لا تقبلوه
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 40, ¶21 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 195 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
أذكر أم أنثى (وَمَا تَدْرِے نَفْسࣱ مَّاذَا تَكْسِبُ) من خير أو شر ويعلمه اللّٰه (غَدا وَمَا تَدْرِه نَمْشَ بِأَيِّ أَرْضِ تَمُوتُ ويعلمه اللّٰه تعالى (إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ)) هذه مفاتيح الغيب التي قال النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: (خمسة لا يعلمها إلا الله: إن اللّٰه عنده علم الساعة إلى آخر السورة) [3] نعم بعض الأنبياء أخبروا بالمغيبات فكان الأمر كما أخبروا، وبعض الأولياء
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 40, ¶25 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 195 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
اللّٰه ولا تدري نفس بأي أرض تموت إلا اللّٰه ولا يعلم متى تقوم الساعة إلا الله.
Read in context →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.