Q 40:21 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

۞أَوَلَمْ فِے اُ۬لذِينَ مِن هُمُۥٓ مِنْهُمْ فِے وَمَا لَهُم مِّنَ مِنْ

Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of the consequence for those who disbelieved before them? They were mightier than these in power and (in the) traces (which they left behind them) in the earth. Yet Allah seized them for their sins, and they had no protector 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 Ghāfir begins at vol. 8, p. 159 (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 44, ¶29 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

بمسارقتها النظر إلى محرم؛ اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى يعلم كل شيء يجري من أعمال العبد حتى خائنة الأعين (وَمَا تُخْصِ الصُّدُور) والذي لم يخرج من القلب يعلمه اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى (وَاللَّهُ يَقْضِے بِالْحَقِّۖ وَالذِينَ تَدْعُونَ) تعبدون من دون اللّٰه ياكفار مكة مِ دُونِهِ) وهم الأصنام (لا يَفْضُولَ بِشَمْء فكيف يكونون شركاء لله الَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ) لأقوالهم (الْبَصِير) بأفعالهم ( أَوَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا فِي الأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرُواْ كَيْفَ كَالَ عَقِبَةُ أَلذِيرَ كَانُواْ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ كَانُواْ هُمُو أَشَدَّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةَ) لو ساروا في البلاد ورأوا آثار الهالكين - وكانوا أقوى منهم - لتبين لهم أنهم سيهلكون كما هلك أولئك «كَانُواْ هُمُۥٓ أَشَدَّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةࣰ» (وَءَاثَاراً فِي الارْضِ) من مصانع وقصور (أَخَذَهُمُ اللَّه أهلكهم (بِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَمَا كَانَ لَهُم مِنَ

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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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