Q 32:10 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

أَ۟ذَا فِے إِنَّا لَفِے بَلْ هُم

And they say: When we are lost in the earth, how can we then be re-created? Nay but they are disbelievers in the meeting with their Lord — 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-Sajda begins at vol. 7, p. 207 (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 40, ¶39 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 195 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

خَلْف جَدِيد استفهام إنكار (بَلْ هُم بِلِقَآءِ رَبِّهِمْ كَٰفِرُونَۖ) كفروا بالبعث (قُلْ يَتَوَفّ۪يٰكُم مَّلَكُ اُ۬لْمَوْتِ اِ۬لذِے وُكِّلَ بِكُمْ) بقبض أرواحكم (ثُمَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكُمْ تُرْجَعُونَ)) حتما أن ملك الموت يقبض أرواح بني آدم ثم يرجعون إلى اللّٰه فيجازيهم بأعمالهم. اللّٰه أوجد الإنسان في بدايته بلا واسطة، نفخ فيه الروح بلا واسطة الملك، ولكن هذا الحق الذي أوجدك باد واسطة أنت لما صرت موجودا جعلت الوسائط بينك وبينه، فلهذا آخر الأمر هو عاملك بما عاملته به، جعل ملك الموت وكيلا على قبض روحك وهو كان قادرا على أن يقبض روحك بنفسه الكريمة، ولكن لما جعلت حجابا بينك وبينه جعل حجابا بينه وبينك، فوكل ملك الموت بقبض روحك. ومن عباد اللّٰه من يتولى اللّٰه قبض أرواحهم إكراما لهم - جعلنا اللّٰه وإياكم منهم - شهداء المحبة. ملك الموت هو الوكيل على قبض الأرواح، جعل اللّٰه العالم كلا في كفه بمنزلة طست صغير، وينظر إلى جميع أرواح بني آدم كل يوم يختبر كل واحد منا خمس مرات هل حان أجله أم لا، فإذا حضر …

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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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