Q 4:27 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

أَنْ عَلَيْكُمْۖ اُ۬لذِينَ أَن

And Allah would turn to you in mercy; but those who follow vain desires would have you go tremendously astray — 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-Nisāʾ begins at vol. 2, p. 146 (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 11, ¶8 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(حبب إلي من دنياكم النساء والطيب وقرة عيني في الصلاة)[1]، النساء لأن الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم يجد في الزوجات عونا على تبليغ الرسالة وكل متزوج يجد معونة من زوجته في إقامة الدين. لولم يكن إلا أن تكفيه من الطحن والعجن والطبخ والغسل وكنس البيت ورعاية الولد، كل هذا لو باشره الرجل لاشتغل به عن دينه، فإذا المرأة ليست من الدنيا، بل هي عون على الدين في حق المسلم، فلذا قالوا إن المرأة الصالحة ليست من الدنيا، فلذا قال الرسول (حبب إلي من دنيلكم النساء والطيب وقرة عيني في الصلاة) المرأة فيها الوجه الحسن الذي يُذكره بجمال اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، والطيب فيه الرائحة الطيبة وأصله من الجنة فكل هذا حُبب إليه، ولكن قرة عينه في الصلاة، لم يقل إن قرة عينه بالصلاة ولكن قرة عينه في الصلاة، الحالة التي يجدها في الصلاة هي التي تقر بها عينه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم لا عين الصلاة محل المناجاة "وَاسْجُدْ وَاقْتَرِبَّ" (يُرِيدُ اُ۬للَّهُ لِيُبَيِّنَ لَكُمْ) شرائع دينكم ومصالح أمركم (وَيَهْدِيَكُمْ سُنَنَ اَ۬لذِينَ مِن …

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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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