O ye who believe! Let not your wealth nor your children distract you from remembrance of Allah. Those who do so, they are the losers — 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-Munāfiqūn begins at vol. 10, p. 18(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
1956 – 1964
attested span
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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
March–April 1956al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya
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 51, ¶43 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
اللّٰه يبغض هذه المشية إلا في هذا الموضع . يعني التكبر على المتكبر لا باس به. يَايُّهَا ألذِينَ ءَامَثُواْ لا تَلْهِكُمْء) تشغلكم (أَمْوَٰلُكُمْ وَلَآ أَوْلَٰدُكُمْ عَن ذِكْرِ اِ۬للَّهِۖ) الصلون الخمس ( رَمَنْ يَفْعَل ذَلِكَ بَأَوْلِّبِكَ هُم الكَديرُونَ) من اشتغل بالمال والولد عن طاعة له تبارك وتعالى ذلك خسران مبين. وورد أن (الولد مبخلة مجبنة)2 يورث البخل، تريد أن تنفق مالك فيبقى الأولاد ليس عندهم شيء، مجبنة تريد الجهاد فيقولون لك إذا استشهدت يبقى الأولاد أيتاما، مبخلة مجبنة. (وَأَنفِقُواْ مِن مَّا رَزَقْنَٰكُم مِّن قَبْلِ أَنْ يَّاتِيَ أَحَدَكُمُ اُ۬لْمَوْتُ فَيَقُولَ رَبِّ لَوْلَآ أَخَّرْتَنِےٓ) هلا أخرتني (إِلَيٰٓ أَجَلࣲ قَرِيبࣲ فَأَصَّدَّقَ) أتصدق بالركاة (وَأَكْر مِنَ الصَّلِحِينَ)) أصدقَ بالنصب وأكنْ بالجزم يجوز [3] (وَلَنْ يُّوَ۬خِّرَ اَ۬للَّهُ نَفْساً اِذَا جَآءَ اجَلُهَاۖ وَاللَّهُ خَبِيرُۢ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَۖ).
A single interpretive equivalence, often a received one, rather than commentary proper.
al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya al-maʾkhūdha min al-qalam al-Sīrīnbiyya
الحكم القطبية المأخوذة من القلم السيرينبيةgloss
Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 5 · held at students’ request
Not yet ingested. wa-lā tulhikum amwālukum wa-lā awlādukum ʿan dhikri llāh — whoever is not connected to the Presence is, ʿinda ahl al-ḥaqīqa, ibn zinan. Also the four gazes that count as worship: the Kaʿba, a parent's face, the muṣḥaf, a scholar's face.
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.