Q 7:135 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فَلَمَّا عَنْهُمُ إِلَيٰٓ هُم إِذَا هُمْ

But when We did remove from them the terror for a term which they must reach, behold! they broke their covenant — 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-Aʿrāf begins at vol. 3, p. 191 (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 19, ¶50 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 216 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

لأسبحن الليلة تسبيحا ما سبح مثله مخلوق قط، تكلم له ضفدع من تحت سريره: يا سليمان تعجب بنفسك أنا عندي سبعون لسانا كل لسان يسبح ليلا ونهارا لا يفتر، ومضى علي الآن ثلاثة أيام ما أكلت وما شربت من أجل التسبيح[2] (وَالدَّمَ) بعد ذلك جاء الدم انقلبت مياههم دما عبيطا، كلما أرادوا أن يشربوا ماء صار دما عبيطا، إذا أخذ الإسرائيلي دلوا من البئر يكون ماء زلالا وإذا أخرج القبطي دلوا يكون دما عبيطا، فقال فرعون: هذا عندي دواؤه كل إسرائيلي يكون مع قبطي في قلة واحدة محل شربهم يكون واحدا ففعلوا ذلك، إذا تناول الإسرائيلي يخرج ماء صاف وإذا تناول القبطي يكون دما، فقال يأخذ الإسرائيلي الماء ويجعله في فيه ويصبه في فم القبطي، فإذا فعل يكون دما، نعطش فرعون عطشا شديدا وطلب أوراق الشجر فأتوه بورق الشجر أكل ورق الشجر حتى أراد أن يمص الماء بقي دما في فمه 3، فطلب من موسى أن يكشف اللّٰه هذا ويؤمن، قال تعالى (ايَٰتٍ مُقَصَّلَتٍ مبينات جَاسْتَكْبَرُوا عن الإيمان بها ( وَكَانُوا قَوْماً مُجْرِمِينَ وَلَمَّا وَفَعَ …

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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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