Sūrat Al-Nisāʾ · 4 : 42

Q 4:42 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اُ۬لذِينَ لَوْ بِهِمُ وَلَا

On that day those who disbelieved and disobeyed the messenger will wish that they were level with the ground, and they can hide no fact from Allah — 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, ¶33 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

في كلامي يَوْمَيِذِ) يوم الجين (يَوْمَئِذࣲ يَوَدُّ اُ۬لذِينَ كَفَرُواْ وَعَصَوُاْ اُ۬لرَّسُولَ لَوْ تَسَّوّ۪يٰ بِهِمُ اُ۬لَارْضُ) يتمنون بأن يكونوا تابا لعظم الهول، كما في آية أخرى "وَيَفَولَ الْكَامِرْ يَلَيْتَنِي كُنتُ تَرّبا يتمنى الكفار أن تتسوى بهم الأرض ويكونوا ترابا (وَلَا يَكْتُمُونَ اَ۬للَّهَ حَدِيثاࣰۖ) مما عملوا. في وقت آخر يكتمونه يقولون "وَاللَهِ رَبِّنَا مَا كُنَّا مُشْرِكِينَ"، ما بين هاتين الآيتين: "وَاللّهِ رَبِّيَا مَا كُنَّا مُشْرِكِينٌ" هذا كتم، وهنا قال "وَلَاَ يَكُتَمُورَ أُللَّهَ حَدِيثاً لأنهم حاولوا الكتمان "وَاللَّهِ رَبِّنَا مَا كُنَّا مُشْرِكِينَ" فختم اللّٰه على أفواههم، فتكلمت الأعضاء

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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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