He it is Who produceth gardens trellised and untrellised, and the date-palm, and crops of divers flavour, and the olive and the pomegranate, like and unlike. Eat ye of the fruit thereof when it fruiteth, and pay the due thereof upon the harvest day, and be not prodigal. Lo! Allah loveth not the prodigals — 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-Anʿām begins at vol. 3, p. 112(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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loci in the corpus
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distinct acts
1959 – 1964
attested span
1 of 2
text available
This verse across his life
Each mark is one work in which Shaykh Ibrāhīm engages this verse, placed by date of composition. Hollow marks are loci we know of but cannot yet show.
1960
before 1959al-Dawāwīn al-sitt
1964Fī riyāḍ
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 17, ¶46 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
المحرمة وهي السوائب والبحائر خَالِصَة حلال لِذكْورِنَا يجوز للذكر أن يأكل من أنعام آلهتنا (وَمُحَرَّمُ عَلَى أَزْوَاجِنَا) ولكن حرام على النساء أن تأكل من أنعام الآلهة وَإِنْ يَكْر مَيْتَةَ) إلا إذا ماتت بنفسها إن كانت ميتة فالميتة حلال للذكور والإناث قَهُمْ جِيهِ شرَكَاءٌ سَيَجْزِيهِمْ) سيجزيهم اللّٰه (وَصْعَهُمْ وَ) ذلك بالتحليل والتحريم (إِنَّهُو حَكِيمٌ) في صنعه ( عَلِيم[٣] بخلقه (فَدْ خَسِرَ الذِينَ فَتَلُواْ أَوْلَدَهُمْ) بالوأد (سَبَها ) جهلا ( بِغَيْرِ عِلْمِ وَحَرَّمُواْ مَا رَزَّقَهُمْ اللَّهُ) مما ذكر (اُ۪فْتِرَآءً عَلَي اَ۬للَّهِۖ قَد ضَّلُّواْ وَمَا كَانُواْ مُهْتَدِينَۖ وَهُوَ اَ۬لذِےٓ أَنشَأَ)
The verse as structure — acrostic, tawassul, or the letters themselves — not as an object of interpretation.
al-Dawāwīn al-sitt
الدواوين الستpoetic
before 1959 · English · Q. kāfiyya: Yā sāʾilan hal Mālikun qad zakkā * Gerte fa-habbu gerte lam yuzakkā (ALA #49-xvi)
Not yet ingested. Macaronic: the Wolof 'gerte' (groundnut) set in an Arabic hemistich. On whether zakāt is due on peanut crops; cf. ALA #18 Irshād al-sārīn ilā ʿadam al-hārīn, 1355/1936. Simultaneously poetic and juristic. VERSE IS INFERRED FROM THE SUBJECT, not named by ALA — the only entry here that is not ALA's own attribution.
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.