لِے لِے لَّا مِّنۢ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ
He said: My Lord! Forgive me and bestow on me sovereignty such as shall not belong to any after me. Lo! Thou art the Bestower — 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 Ṣād begins at vol. 8, p. 113 (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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 1, ¶27 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 29 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
ويجتمع الناس كلهم ينظرون إليه. بعد ذلك تذكر قول سليمان عليه السلام «وَهَبْ لِي مُلْكًا لَّا يَنبَغِي لِأَحَدٍ مِّن بَعْدِي ۖ» فتأدب الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم مع سليمان فأطلق سراحه .
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 20, ¶46 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم ذات يوم فلقيه الشيطان وبيده شعلة نار يريد أن يجعلها في وجه النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فقال النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم فسقطت، فكتفه النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وجعل الوثاق في يديه وربطه على إحدى سواري المسجد حتى ينظره صبيان المدينة ويلعبوا به، فتذكر دعاء سليمان "وَهَبْ لِي مُلْكاً لاَ يَنْبَغِى لَاحَدٍ مِنْ بَعْدِىَ" فحله صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وأطلق سراحه1. الشيطان أراد أن يتسلط على النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، وأراد اللّٰه أن يظهر ذلك ويكفيه حتى يعلم الشيطان أنه لا يقدر له على شيء. والله تبارك وتعالى بحكمته ربما منع بالشيء ولا يمنع عنه، النهار به مُنع الليل والليل به منع النهار ولكن كلهما لا يمنع الآخر. وعيسى كان يحيي الموتى وما منعه ذلك من أن يموت هو. إحياؤه للأموات منع به، ولكن ما منعه من أن يموت هو.
Read in context →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.