Q 56:62 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَلَقَدْ فَلَوْلَا

And verily ye know the first creation. Why, then, do ye not reflect — 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-Wāqiʿa begins at vol. 9, p. 167 (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 49, ¶50 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 152 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

قَدَّرْنَا بَيْتَكُمْ أَلْمَوْتَ) اللّٰه الذي خلق المني وجعله إنسانا هو الذي يميتكم ثم يحيكم (وَمَا تَحْرُ بِمَسْبُوفِينَ) بعاجزين ( عَلَى أَن تُبَتِّلَ أَمْعَلَكُمْ) اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى قادر على أن يبدل أمثال الموجودين الآن يهلكهم ويأتي بآخرين، تلك عادته (وَنَنشِيَّكُمْ) نخلقكم (هِي مَا لا تَعْلَمُونَ) من الصور كالقردة والخنازير لو شئنا (وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمُ النَّشْأَةَ ألْأَولِى فَلَوْلاَ تَذَّكَّرُونَ) عرفتم أن أصلكم من المني، هلا تذكرتم؟ الإنسان لا ينبغي له أن يتكبر أوله مني يتقذره كل أحد وآخره جيفة، وهو فيما بين هذين يحمل العذرة دائما. عرفتم أصلكم مني فقط، هلا اتعظتم؟ ( أَجَرِّيْتُم مَا تَحْرُثُورَ) تثيرون الأرض وتلقون البذر فيها ( آنتُمْ تَزْرَعُونَهُ ) تنبتونه (أَمْ نَحْنُ الزِّرِعُونَ) إذا حرث أحد فلاة وألقى بذرا في الأرض وجلس في بيته ونبت بستانه، هذا من عمله؟ هو الذي أنبته؟ ولَوْ نَشَآءُ لَجَعَلْنَهْ حَطَما والنبات عندما حسن إن شاء اللّٰه أيبسه في الحين قَظَلْتُمْ أقمتم نهارا …

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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. Passages 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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