Q 36:22 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَمَا لِيَ لَآ اُ۬لذِے وَإِلَيْهِ

For what cause should I not serve Him Who hath created me, and unto Whom ye will be brought back — 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 Yā-Sīn begins at vol. 8, p. 71 (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 42, ¶62 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 55 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(وَمَا لِىَ لَا أَعْبُدُ ألذِ قَطَرَنِ)) لا مانع لي من عبادة الموجد وهو اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، وهو الذي فطرني أنشأني من غير سابق وأنتم كذلك (وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ) بعد الموت فيجازيكم بكفركم «وَمَا لِيَ لَآ أَعْبُدُ اُ۬لذِے فَطَرَنِے» كان حقه أن يقول: وإليه أرجع، ولكن قال «وَالَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونُ» التفت إليهم اهتماما بشأنهم (آتَّخِذُ مِ دُونِهِ الِهَةَّ أصناما (إِنْ يُرِدْنِ الرَّحْمَنُ بِضْرِ لاَ تُغْن عَنِّ شَفَعَتَهُمْ) التي زعمتموها (شَيْئاً وَلا يُنفِذُّوبُةَ إِنِّىَ إِذا لَعِى ضَلَّلِ مُبِينٌ إِنِّيَ ءَامَنتْ بِرَبَّكُمْ وَاسْمَعُونِ) اسمعوا قولي فرجموه فمات. فعندما سقط أُدخل الجنة في الحال (قِيلَ) له عند موته ( أَدْخُلِ الْجَنَّةَ) وقيل دخلها حيا (®قَالَ يَٰلَيْتَ قَوْمِى يَعْلَمُونَ بِمَا عَبَرَ لِي رَبّى) بغفرانه (وَجَعَلَنِے مِنَ اَ۬لْمُكْرَمِينَۖ وَمَآ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيٰ قَوْمِهِۦ) قوم حبيب النجار (مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ مِن جُندࣲ مِّنَ اَ۬لسَّمَآءِ وَمَا كُنَّا مُنزِلِينَۖ) اللّه …

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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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