Sūrat Al-Zumar · 39 : 5

Q 39:5 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

عَلَي عَلَي اَلَا هُوَ

He hath created the heavens and the earth with truth. He maketh night to succeed day, and He maketh day to succeed night, and He constraineth the sun and the moon to give service, each running on for an appointed term. Is not He the Mighty, the Forgiver — 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 Al-Zumar begins at vol. 8, p. 136 (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 43, ¶116 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 105 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

قالوا إن هذه الآلهة جعلوها وسائط بينهم وبين اللّٰه (إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَهُمْ) وبين المسلمين (ي مَا هُمْ جِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ) من أمر الدين فيدخل المؤمنين الجنة والكافرين النار (إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ لَا يَهْدِے مَنْ هُوَ كَٰذِبࣱ) بنسبة الولد إليه (كَقَّارّم بعبادته غير اللّٰه (لَّوَ اَرَادَ اَ۬للَّهُ أَنْ يَّتَّخِذَ وَلَداࣰ) كما قالوا (لَّاصْطَف۪يٰ مِمَّا يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُۖ)) قال المفسرون: من الملائكة أو الحور العين 1 أو قبل ذلك، (سُبْحَنَةٌ, هُوَ اللَّهُ الْوَاحِدُ ألْقَهَارُ خَلَقَ ألسَّمَوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ بِالْحَقِّ يَكَوِّرْ يدخل ( أليْلَ عَلَى النَّهارِ) فيزيد (وَيُكَوِّرْ النَّهَارَ) يدخله (عَلَى أليْلِ) فيزيد (وَسَخَّرَ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرُ كُلٌّ يَجْرِ) في فلكه (لَاجَلِ مُسَمَىٌّ) ليوم القيامة (آلا هُوَ الْعَزِيزُ) الغالب على أمره المنتقم من أعدائه (ألْغَفَّرَ) لأوليائه (خَلَقَكُم مِ نَمْسٍ

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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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