Q 53:32 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَ۬لذِينَ إِلَّا إِنَّ هُوَ بِكُمُۥٓ إِذَ مِّنَ وَإِذَ اَنتُمُۥٓ فِے فَلَا هُوَ بِمَنِ

Those who avoid enormities of sin and abominations, save the unwilled offences - (for them) lo! thy Lord is of vast mercy. He is Best Aware of you (from the time) when He created you from the earth, and when ye were hidden in the bellies of your mothers. Therefor ascribe not purity unto yourselves. He is Best Aware of him who wardeth off (evil) — 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-Najm begins at vol. 9, p. 125 (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 48, ¶68 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 108 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

لا يعلمون من الأشياء إلا الدنيا فآثروها على الآخرة، ولو عرفوا الآخرة لآثروها لأن الآخرة خير وأبقى {إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمْ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ إهْتَدِىْ عالم بهما ويجازيهما يوم القيامة (وَلِلهِ مَا مِحِ السَّمَوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الارْضِ) هو مالك لذلك ومنه الضال والمهتدي يضل من يشاء ويهدي من يشاء (لِيَجْزِيَ اَ۬لذِينَ أَسَٰٓـُٔواْ بِمَا عَمِلُواْ) من الشرك وغيره ( وَيَجْزِىَ الذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا ) بالتوحيد وغيره من الطاعات بِالْحُسْنَى) الجنة ومن هم المحسنون الذين لهم الجنة جعلنا اللّٰه وإياكم منهم؟ (اَ۬لذِينَ يَجْتَنِبُونَ كَبَٰٓئِرَ اَ۬لِاثْمِ وَالْفَوَٰحِشَ إِلَّا اَ۬للَّمَمَۖ) المحسنون هم الذين يجتنبون كبائر الإثم والفواحش إلا اللمم. الكبيرة كل ما ورد في ذكرها وعيد والصغائر كالنظرة والقبلة واللمسة هذه الأشياء تكفّر باجتناب الكبائر.

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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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