Sūrat Sabaʾ · 34 : 33

Q 34:33 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَ۬لذِينَ لِلذِينَ بَلْ إِذْ أَن لَهُۥٓ لَمَّا فِےٓ اِ۬لذِينَ هَلْ إِلَّا مَا

Those who were despised say unto those who were proud: Nay but (it was your) scheming night and day, when ye commanded us to disbelieve in Allah and set up rivals unto Him. And they are filled with remorse when they behold the doom; and We place carcans on the necks of those who disbelieved. Are they requited aught save what they used to do — 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 Sabaʾ begins at vol. 8, p. 43 (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 41, ¶119 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(أو إيَّاكُمْ) الكفار أي أحد الفريقين (لَعَلَى هَدىَّ أَوْمِى ضَلَّلٍ مِيِيس) إما أن نكون كلا على هدى أو في ضلال مبين. والحق أنَّهم على ضلال ونحن على هدى ولكن أبْهم هذا تلطفا لدعوتهم إلى اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى ما صرح لهم أنَّهم الضالون ونحن المهتدون ولكن نحن بعضنا مهتد وبعضنا ضال، وهم الضالون لا محالة (قُل لَّا تُسْـَٔلُونَ عَمَّآ أَجْرَمْنَا) أذنبنا (وَلَا نُسْـَٔلُ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَۖ قُلْ يَجْمَعُ بَيْنَنَا رَبُّنَا) يوم القيامة (ثُمَّ يَفْتَحُ بَيْنَنَا بِالْحَقِّۖ) في إدخال المحقين الجنة والمبطلين النار (وَهُوَ الْمَتَّاحُ) الحاكم الْعَلِيمُ) بما يحكم ( قَلَ ارونِى) أعلموني (اَ۬لذِينَ أَلْحَقْتُم بِهِۦ شُرَكَآءَ) في العبادة (كَلَّ) لا شريك (بَل هُوَ أللَّهُ الْعَزِيزُ) الغالب الْحَكِيمُ) في تدبير خلقه (وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَكَ يا محمد (إِلَّا كَافَةً لِنَّاسِ) لجميعهم بَشِيراً مبشرا بالجنة لمن آمن وَنَذِيرا منذرا للكافرين بالعذاب (وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ اَ۬لنَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَۖ …

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 41, ¶120 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أَرْسَلْنَا مِي قَرْيَةِ صِ نَذِيرِ الاَ قَالَ مُتْرَجُوهَا) رؤساؤها المتنعمون (إِنَّا بِمَآ أُرْسِلْتُم بِهِۦ كَٰفِرُونَۖ وَقَالُواْ نَحْنُ أَكْثَرُ أَمْوَٰلاࣰ وَأَوْلَٰداࣰ) ممن آمن (وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُعَذَّبِينٌ قُلِ إِنَّ رَبِّ يَبْسُطُ أَلرِزْقَ)

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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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