Say (unto them, O Muhammad): I exhort you unto one thing only: that ye awake, for Allah's sake, by twos and singly, and then reflect: There is no madness in your comrade. He is naught else than a warner unto you in face of a terrific doom — 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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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 41, ¶128 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
اثين اثنين (وَفُرَدِى) واحدا واحدا ثُمَّ تَتَمَكِّرُوا) اجتمعوا أو تفرقوا وانظروا بعقولكم حتى تعلموا أن (مَا بِصَحِبكُم ص جِنَّةً ) تعلمون أن محمدا هذا ليس بمجنون ليس على صفة من جن (اِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا نَذِيرࣱ لَّكُم بَيْنَ يَدَےْ عَذَابࣲ شَدِيدࣲۖ) في الآخرة إن عصيتموه وقُلْ مَا سَأَلْتُكْم مِنَ آجْرِ مَهُوَ لَكُمُ وَ لا أسألكم عليه أجرا (إِنَ اجْرِي إِلَّ عَلَى اللَّهُ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كَلِّ شَءٍ شَهِيدٌ مطلع (قَلِ إِنَّ رَبّهِ يَقْذِفُ بِالْحَقِّ) يلقيه إلى أنبيائه ( عَلَّمْ الْغَيَوب) من خلقه في السماوات والأرض قُلْ جَآءَ الْحَقُّ الإسلام (وَمَا يُبْدِيُّ الْبَطِلُ) الكفر
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 55, ¶220 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
(يَدَآ أَبِى لَهَبٍ) أبو لهب هالك عبر باليدين والمراد جميع أبي لهب {وَتَبَّ مَا أَغْنِى عَنْهُ مَالُهُ و وَمَا كَسَبَ ولده ( سَيَصْلَى نَاراً ذَاتَ لَهَبٍ تلهب (وَامْرَأَتَةُ أم جميل (حَمَّالَةُ الْحَطَبِ) الشوك والسعدان تلقيه في طريق المصطفى صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم إذاية له (فِي جِيدِهَا) عنقها (حَبْلٌ صِ مَسَدِّ) من ليف، تحتطب الشوك وتلقيه في طريق المصطفى صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم. اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد.
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.