Q 47:20 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اُ۬لذِينَ لَوْلَا فَإِذَآ فِيهَا اَ۬لذِينَ فِے إِلَيْكَ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ لَهُمْۖ

And those who believe say: If only a surah were revealed! But when a decisive surah is revealed and war is mentioned therein, thou seest those in whose hearts is a disease looking at thee with the look of men fainting unto death. Therefor woe unto them — 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 Muḥammad begins at vol. 9, p. 42 (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 46, ¶156 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أن كل صاحب وكل حبيب وكل صديق وكل قريب لابد أن ينساك في بعض الأوقات، فحبيبك الذي لا ينساك في أي وقت من الأوقات، في ليلك، في نهارك، في نومك، في يقظتك، في طاعتك، في معصيتك، في شكرك، في كفرك، في غفلتك، في تذكرك، لا ينساك أبدا، ذاك هو اللّه تبارك وتعالى، لا ينساك أبدا، إن لم تقدر على أن لا تنسه أبدا فلا أقل من أن تأخذ بعض الأوقات تتذكره فيها، فالأوراد لا باس بها عكس ما يقول المنكرون وَيَفُولُ ألذِيرَ ءَامَنُواْ لَوْلا نُزِّلَتْ سُورَةٌ) فيها ذكر الجهاد (فَإِذَآ أُنزِلَتْ سُورَةࣱ مُّحْكَمَةࣱ) لم تنسخ ( وَذُكِرَ فِيهَا ألْقِتَالُ ) طلبه ((رَأَيْتَ ألذِيرَ فِي قُلُوبِهِم مَرَضٌ شك وهم المنافقون ( يَنظُرُونَ إِلَيْكَ نَظَرَ الْمَغْشِيِّ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الْمَوْتُ خوفا منه وكراهية يخافون من القتال ويكرهونه، جدا، المنافقون لازم لهم الجبن دائما (بَأَوْلِى لَهُمْ طَاعَةٌ وَفَوْلٌ مَعْرُوق حسن ذلك ( إِذَا عَزَمَ الأَمْرُ) فرض القتال قَلَوْ صَدَفُوا اللَّهَ) في الإيمان والطاعة ( لَكَانَ خَيْراً لَهُمْ …

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 46, ¶158 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(4832). تقدم في الدروس 21 ،20 ،18 ،11 ،6 ،5، و39

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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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