And in the heaven is your providence and that which ye are promised — 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-Dhāriyāt begins at vol. 9, p. 103(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 47 — vol. 9, p. 56 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
In this session, not yet located. Lesson 47 is titled by sūra rather than by āya; its bounds (Q 48:11–Q 51:27) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. Of the 109 āyāt in that span, as many as 47 are quoted in the transcription; this one is not among them, so whether he comments on it is not established. The page given is where the lesson opens — start there and read on.
Most of Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s Qurʾānic commentary is oral. Sixty-two cassettes of Wolof exegesis covering the whole Qurʾān have never been transcribed, and this index reaches only what the written sessions quote. An absence here belongs to the index, not to the corpus.
al-Fatāwā wa-l-ajwiba · undated · Arabic · §1, pp. 241, 243 · Mawsūʿat al-āthār al-nathriyya li-ṣāḥib al-fayḍa al-Tijāniyya, maḥwar 5 · compiled by Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · answered in writing
الجواب عن الآية الأولى والله أعلم: أن للآية ظاهرا وباطنا كغيرها من الآيات، وقوله تعالى ﴿وَفِي ٱلسَّمَآءِ﴾ السماء: معناه المجازي المطر… والمعنى الحقيقي السماء المعروفة. والرزق أيضا رزقان: رزق مجازي ورزق حقيقي. فالرزق المجازي مدار أمره على المطر، لا ينزل رزق إلا بواسطة المطر.
The answer concerning the first verse — and Allah knows best — is that the verse has a ẓāhir [outward sense] and a bāṭin [inward sense], like other verses. ﴿And in the heaven﴾: al-samāʾ, in its figurative meaning, is rain… Its literal meaning is the known heaven. And provision, likewise, is of two kinds: a figurative provision and a real one. The figurative provision turns entirely upon rain; no provision descends except by means of rain.
Excerpt from the answer; the full text is not published here. Translation by Amadu Kunateh. The compiler's footnotes are not included.
§1. The edition prints this reference itself.
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.