Q 7:185 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَوَلَمْ فِے وَمَا مِن وَأَنْ أَنْ قَدِ

Have they not considered the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and what things Allah hath created, and that it may be that their own term draweth nigh? In what fact after this will they believe — 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, ¶30 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

لكونه يخالفهم في الأعمال والأقوال، وثانيا أن النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم عندما يكابد الوحي كان يظهر منه أحوال من نظر إليه في تلك الحالة يَسِمه بالجنون. (اَوَلَمْ يَنظُرُواْ فِے مَلَكُوتِ اِ۬لسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَالَارْضِ) الملكوت ما خفي من ملك اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، الملك والملكوت تارة يعبر بهذا وتارة يقول الخلق والأمر، الغيب والشهادة، الحس والمعنى، (وَمَا خَلَقَ اْللَّهُ مِن شَءٍ وينظروا فيما خلقه اللّٰه من شيء بيان ل "مَا"، فيستدلوا به على قدرة صانعه ووحدانيته. الخلق خلقان: الخلق والأمر، الخلق ما خلقه اللّٰه من شيء، كل ما في هذا الكون إنما خرج من شيء، والأمر ما خلقه اللّٰه من لا شيء. عالم الأرواح لا شيء منه خرج من شيء، إذا تفكروا في ملكوت السماوات والأرض علموا أن من قدر على صنع هذا واحد وهو المستحق للعبادة (وَأَنْ)) وأنه عَسِىّ أَنْ يَكُونَ فَدِ إفْتَرَبَ) قرب ( أَجَلُهُمْ فيموتوا كفارا، فليتفكروا في شيء آخر وهو أن المرء سيموت من كان يكره أن يصير إلى النار فليحذر من الموت كافرا، إذاً فليتب من …

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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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