Have they not bethought them (that) there is no madness in their comrade? He is but a plain warner — 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 20, ¶28 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
محمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم صِ جِنَّةٍ) رموه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم بالجنون، لما رأوا حاله مخالفا لحالهم، هم مقبلون على الدنيا والتكاثر وحب الشهوات، وهو معرض عن هذا كلا قالوا: هذا لا عقل عنده، مجنون، وقيل نزلت لما قال اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى "وَأَنذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الأفْرَبِينَ" فصعد على جبل الصفا وصار ينذر الليل كلا: يا بني فلان، يا بني فلان إني أحذركم من عذاب يوم الآخرة، يدعوهم إلى الإيمان حتى أصبح الصبح، فلما أصبحوا قالوا لا شك عندنا الآن في جنون محمد [2]، بات الليل كله وهو يتكلم فهو مجنون بنظرهم إلى أعماله المخالفة لأعمالهم وهم يظنون أنهم عقلاء حيث تكالبوا على الدنيا وصاروا يكسبون ويدخرون ويتفاخرون ويتكاثرون وهو لا يبالي بشيء من ذلك، قالوا إنه مجنون، قال اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى «آوَلَمْ يَتَبَكِّرُوا» هلا تفكروا؟ إذا استعملوا عقولهم ونظروا في حال محمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم تبين لهم «مَا بِصَحِبِهِم صِ جِنَّةٍ»، علموا أن هذا ليس تصرفات المجنون (إِنْ هُوَ إِلاَّ نَذِيرٌ مُبِينٌ))) بيّن الإنذار. كل …
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.