So keep your duty to Allah as best ye can, and listen, and obey, and spend; that is better for your souls. And whoso is saved from his own greed, such are the successful — 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-Taghābun begins at vol. 10, p. 25(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.
1
locus
1
act
1 of 1
text available
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, ¶60 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
ويصاحبه، فصاحبه إلى مصلى العيد، فلما وقف الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وقال: اللّٰه أكبر، قال الحسن: اللّٰه أكبر قال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم اللّٰه أكبر قال الحسن اللّٰه أكبر، فصار يكرر حتى كبر المصطفى صلى اللّه عليه وسلم سبع تكبيرات تذكر أنه في الصلاة ومضى في صلاته وبقيت ندبا إلى يومنا هذا «وَاللَّهُ عِندَهُ وَ أَجْرٌ عَظِيمٌ» فلا تفوّتوه باشتغالكم بالأموال والأولاد (فَاتَّقُواْ اُ۬للَّهَ مَا اَ۪سْتَطَعْتُمْ) "إتَّقُوا أللَّهَ حَقَّ تُفاتِهِ " نزلت أولا فسره الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم بأن تشكروه ولا تكفروه وتطيعوه ولا تعصوه وتذكروه ولا تنسوه. قالوا: ومن يطيق هذا يا رسول الله؟ فقال: «اتَّفُواْ اللَّهَ مَا إَسْتَطَعْتُمْ» قيل نَسخت
Not Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s words. Students and successors reading the same verse — kept below and apart, because a school’s reading is evidence of transmission, not of what the master said.
Muḥammad al-Mishrīالقنابل اليدوية في الذب عن طريق الصوفيةtafsīr
rev. July 2018 · Arabic · Question 18 · tr. Saʿīd Simone Nardella & Adnan Wood-Smith · answered in writing
The taqwa of the elite, which is protecting oneself from the haram, i.e. carrying out what Allah (t.w.t.) has commanded and avoiding what He has forbidden, and it is what is meant by His (t.) saying “Have taqwa of Allah according to your ability” (Qur’an 64:16).
Muḥammad al-Mishrī, not Shaykh Ibrāhīm — the school reading, in a responsum. Question 18.
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.