Q 36:71 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

أَوَلَمْ اَنَّا لَهُم مِّمَّا فَهُمْ لَهَا

Have they not seen how We have created for them of Our handiwork the cattle, so that they are their owners — 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, ¶105 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 55 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

"وَجِبَابٍ كَالْجَوَابٍ، وَقُدْورٍ رَاسِيَتٌ" هذا بيت، "وَيُخْزِهِمْ وَيَنصُرْكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَيَشْفِ صُدُورَ قَوْمٍ مومِنِينَ" هذا بيت، "جَسَى شَآءَ بَلْيُومِنْ وَمَن شَآءَ وَلْيَكُمُرِ "فَأَصْبَحُوا لا تَرِىّ إِلاَّ مَسَكِنَهُمْ ولكن هذا ليس بشعر إنما انسجام فقط جاء هكذا. وحق لكل فن أن يجد مستمدا من القرآن {لِتُنذِرَ مَى كَانَ حَيّا أي عاقلا يعقل ما يخاطب به وهم المؤمنون (وَيَحِقَّ الْقَوْلُ عَلَى الْكَبِرِينَ) وهم كالميتين. جاء عمر يوما إلى مسجد الرسول ووجد قوما يتناشدون الأشعار قال: أمزامر الشيطان في مسجد الرسول؟ اخرجوا عن مسجد الرسول. قالوا: إياك يا عمر، أنشد الشعر في هذا المسجد وفيه خير منك 2، فوضع يده على رأسه وتواضع لهم وقال: كل الناس أفقه منك يا عمر. أُنشد الشعر والرسول صلى اللّه عليه وسلم جالس وأنشد الشعر وأبو بكر جالس، هذا قولهم: أنشد الشعر في هذا المسجد وفيه من هو خير منك، (أَوَلَمْ يَرَوَاْ ليعلموا (آنَّا خَلَقْنَا لَهُم) في جملة الناس مِمَّا عَمِلَتَ آيْدِينَا) عملناه بلا …

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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. Passages 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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