Q 43:33 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَلَوْلَآ أَنْ لِمَنْ مِّن عَلَيْهَا

And were it not that mankind would have become one community, We might well have appointed, for those who disbelieve in the Beneficent, roofs of silver for their houses and stairs (of silver) whereby to mount — 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-Zukhruf begins at vol. 8, p. 230 (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, ¶105 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 203 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

القاسم هو اللّه والذي اختار لنبوته هو محمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، وهؤلاء الذين تعظموهم للمال والجاه لا يزنون عند اللّه جناح بعوضة فجعلنا بعضهم أغنياء وبعض فقراء (وَرَفَعْنَا بَعْضَهُمْ فَوْقَ بَعْضࣲ دَرَجَٰتࣲ لِّيَتَّخِذَ بَعْضُهُم) الغني (بَعْضاً سُخْرِيَا) إن اللّٰه تبارك وتعال قسم الأرزاق فجعل بعض الناس أغنياء وبعضا فقراء، وبعض الناس أرباب درجات وجاه والبعض ليسوا كذلك ليكون الغني الذي لم يهتد يسخر بالفقير (وَرَحْمَتُ رَبِّكَ) التي هي الجنة (خَيْرٌ مِمَّا يَجْمَعُونٌ وَلَوْلا أَنْ يَكُولَ النَّاسُ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً على الكفر (لَّجَعَلْنَا لِمَنْ يَّكْفُرُ بِالرَّحْمَٰنِ لِبُيُوتِهِمْ سُقُفاࣰ مِّن فِضَّةࣲ وَمَعَارِجَ عَلَيْهَا يَظْهَرُونَ) التقسيم جرى هكذا ولولا أن اللّٰه رحيم بالخلق وعلِمَ حبهم للدنيا حتى أنه لو زاد في هذا لكفر الناس جميعا، لولا ذلك لجعل لكل كافر بيتا من فضة وبيتا من ذهب وسقفا من فضة وسقفا من ذهب ودرجا يرقون بها إلى دورهم من الفضة والذهب حتى يعلموا أن الدنيا ليست بشيء …

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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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