Then have patience (O Muhammad) even as the stout of heart among the messengers (of old) had patience, and seek not to hasten on (the doom) for them. On the day when they see that which they are promised (it will seem to them) as though they had tarried but an hour of daylight. A clear message. Shall any be destroyed save evil-living folk — 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-Aḥqāf begins at vol. 9, p. 20(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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Exegesis of the verse
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 36, ¶48 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
والذي نفسي بيده لو سألت ربي أن يجري معي جبال الدنيا ذهبا لأجراها حيث شئت من الأرض، ولكن اخترت جوع الدنيا على شبعها وفقر الدنيا على غناها وحزن الدنيا على فرحها، يا عائشة إن الدنيا لا تنبغي محمد ولا لآل محمد، يا عائشة إن اللّٰه لم يرض لأولي العزم من الرسل إلا الصبر على مكروه الدنيا والصبر عن محبوبها، ثم لم يرض إلا أن يكلفني ما كلفهم، فقال تعالى: (فَاصْبِرْ كَمَا صَبَرَ أُوْلُواْ اُ۬لْعَزْمِ مِنَ اَ۬لرُّسُلِ) والله ما لي بد من طاعته وإني والله لأصبرن كما صبروا بجهدي ولا قوة إلا بالله".
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.