He will let loose the sky for you in plenteous rain — 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 Nūḥ begins at vol. 10, p. 90(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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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 52, ¶144 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
رجل إلى الحسن بن علي رضي اللّٰه عنه قال له: يا حسن نحن بلادنا في قحط ما مطرنا قال له عليكم بالاستغفار. فشكا إليه رجل الفقر فقال عليك بالاستغفار. فشكا أحد عدم الأولاد فقال له عليك بالاستغفار. فلما ذهبوا قال له رجل: القوم شكوا أشياء مختلفة وأنت دللتهم على شيء واحد فكيف هذا؟ قال: أخذت من كتاب الله «جَفْلْتُ إسْتَغْفِرّواْ رَبَّكُمُ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّاراً يُرْسِلِ السَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِدْرَارا» علمت أن الاستغفار سبب لنزول المطر، «وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَلٍ» علمت أن الاستغفار سبب لسعة الرزق «وَبَنِيرَ» علمت أن الاستغفار سبب لوجود الأولاد1 «وَيَجْعَل لَكُمْ جَنَّتٍ» بساتين «وَيَجْعَل لَكُمُ; أَنْهَراً»
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. Passages 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.