We have appointed only angels to be wardens of the Fire, and their number have We made to be a stumbling-block for those who disbelieve; that those to whom the Scripture hath been given may have certainty, and that believers may increase in faith; and that those to whom the Scripture hath been given and believers may not doubt; and that those in whose hearts there is disease, and disbelievers, may say: What meaneth Allah by this similitude? Thus Allah sendeth astray whom He will, and whom He will He guideth. None knoweth the hosts of thy Lord save Him. This is naught else than a Reminder unto mortals — 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-Muddaththir begins at vol. 10, p. 114(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 53, ¶82 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 94 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
كما قالوا ( سَأُصْلِيهِ) أدخله (سَقَرَۖ وَمَآ أَدْر۪يٰكَ مَا سَقَرُۖ) تعظيما لشأنها (لا تُبْضِى وَلا تَذَرْ لا تبقي شيئا من لحم الكافر ولا عصبه إلا أهلكته، ثم يعود كما كان (لَوَاحَةٌ) محرقة (لِلْبَشَرّ) لظاهر الجلد (عَلَيْهَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ) ملكا وكّل اللّه على الجحيم تسعة عشر ملكا من خزنة النار. لما نزلت هذه جمع أبو جهل صناديد قريش: ألستم الرجال الذين يوجد منكم من يقاتل ألفا؟ قالوا نعم، قال: هذا محمد يهددنا بنار خزنتها تسعة عشر رجلا فقط، أتعجزون عن واحد جميعكم؟ قالوا: لا، قال: أنا أكفيكم ثمانية عشر واكفوني واحدا فقط. قال تعالى (وَمَا جَعَلْنَآ أَصْحَٰبَ اَ۬لنّ۪ارِ إِلَّا مَلَٰٓئِكَةࣰۖ) ليسوا برجال إِنما هم ملائكة لا يطاقون كما يتوهم اللعين وَمَا جَعَلْنَا عِدَّتَهُم ذلك (إِلاَّا بِتْنَةَ) ضلالا (لِلذِينَ كَبَرْوا) ذكر اللّه العدد القليل وهم رؤساؤهم فقط تسعة عشر ولكن العدد ليس كذلك هم أكثر من ذلك. خزنة النار أكثر من تسعة عشر، ولكن الرؤساء فقط هم تسعة عشر (لِيَسْتَيْفِ) ليستبين …
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 53, ¶83 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 94 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
مَرَضٌ شك ( وَالْكَفِرُونَ بمكة ( مَاذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ بهذام العدد مَثَلًّا كَذَٰلِكَ يُضِلُّ اللَّهُ مَنْ يَشَآءُ وَبَهْدِ مَنْ يَشَآءُ وَمَا يَعْلَمْ جُنُّودَ رَبِّكَ إِلّ هو ولكن الحق أن عدد الملائكة في قوتهم وأعوانهم عدد لا يعلمه إلا اللّه تبارك وتعالى (وَمَا هِيَ سقر (إِلاَّ ذِكْرِ الْرَ
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 19 · tr. Saʿīd Simone Nardella & Adnan Wood-Smith · answered in writing
The wisdom behind all of this is “so that those who have Iman will be increased in their Iman…” (Qur’an 74:31): it increases the people of Allah in their desire and hope in Him, and in their fear and humility before Him, since every time a sign appears, it increases their certainty in the Akhirah and their renunciation of the Dunya, because of how it indicates the approach of the Akhirah and the retreat of the Dunya, lest they find solace in a Dunya that retreats day after day rather than an Akhirah that approaches day after day.
Muḥammad al-Mishrī, not Shaykh Ibrāhīm — the school reading, in a responsum. Question 19.
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.