Q 42:36 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فَمَآ مِّن وَمَا لِلذِينَ وَعَلَيٰ

Now whatever ye have been given is but a passing comfort for the life of the world, and that which Allah hath is better and more lasting for those who believe and put their trust in their Lord — 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-Shūrā begins at vol. 8, p. 207 (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 45, ¶59 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 203 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

فلا يغرق أهله (وَيَعْلَمُ ألذِيسَ يُجَدِلُونَ مِيْ ءايَتِنَا مَا لَهُم صِ مَحِيصٌ بَمَآ أُوتِيتُم صِ شَءٍ أثاث (فَمَتَعُ الْحَيَوَةِ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا عِندَ اللَّهِ) من الثواب (خَيْرࣱ وَأَبْق۪يٰ لِلذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَلَيٰ رَبِّهِمْ يَتَوَكَّلُونَۖ وَالذِينَ يَجْتَنِبُونَ كَبَٰٓئِرَ اَ۬لِاثْمِ وَالْفَوَٰحِشَ) موجبات الحدود من عطف البعض على الكل. إن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى وعد عباده الصالحين وهم الذين آمنوا وعلى ربهم يتوكلون، والتوكل ثقة القلب بالله تبارك وتعالى لا ينافي الدخول في الأسباب. التوكل ثم التسليم ثم التفويض، التوكل أن يكون العبد واثقا بأن اللّٰه هو المعطي وهو المانع، سواء دخل في الأسباب أم لا. والتسليم أن يتمنى أن يقع كذا ولا يقع كذا ولكن كلما وقع ما يخالف مراده سلم لله.

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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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