Q 41:15 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فَأَمَّا فِے مَنَ مِنَّا اَوَلَمْ اَنَّ اَ۬لذِے هُوَ مِنْهُمْ

As for A'ad, they were arrogant in the land without right, and they said: Who is mightier than us in power? Could they not see that Allah Who created them, He was mightier than them in power? And they denied Our revelations — 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 Fuṣṣilat begins at vol. 8, p. 185 (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, ¶136 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ربا. هذا غاية الحماقة «بَإِنَّا بِمَآ أَرْسِلْتُم بِهِ، كَمِرُونَ» (بَأَمَّا عَادٌ جَاسْتَكْبَرُواْ مِ الأَرْضِ بقَيْرِ اِلْحَقِّ وَقَالَوا) لما خوفوا (مَىَ آشَدُّ مِنَّا فَوَّةَ) لا أحد كان واحد منهم يقلع الصخرة العظيمة من الجبل يجعلها حيث يشاء1؛ يروى أن الطويل منهم طول قامته مائة ذراع بذراعهم، والقصير ستون ذراعا، ومن غضب منهم يقلع الجبال الراسيات ويلقيها حيث بشاء، ويقولون: من أشد منا قوة اللّه الذي تقول ليس أقوى منا ( اوَلَمْ يَرَوَا يعلموا (اَنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ اَ۬لذِے خَلَقَهُمْ هُوَ أَشَدُّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةࣰۖ وَكَانُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا يَجْحَدُونَۖ) الجحود الكفر بعد ظهور لبينات ( أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحاً صَرْصَراً) سلط اللّٰه عليهم ريحا باردة شديدة الصوت بلا مطر (ي أَيَّامِ نَحْسَاتٍ)) أيام مشئومات عليهم: الأربعاء الأخيرة من الشهر أو من شهر صفر خصوصا2 (لِّنُذِيقَهُمْ عَذَابَ اَ۬لْخِزْيِ فِے اِ۬لْحَيَوٰةِ اِ۬لدُّنْي۪اۖ وَلَعَذَابُ اُ۬لَاخِرَةِ أَخْز۪يٰ وَهُمْ لَا يُنصَرُونَۖ) فلما …

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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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