Sūrat Al-Aʿlā · 87 : 15

Q 87:15 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

And remembereth the name of his Lord, so prayeth 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-Aʿlā begins at vol. 10, p. 167 (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 55, ¶15 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

وِثَمَّ لا يَمُوتَ جِيهَا) فيستريح (وَلَاَ يَحْيِنَ) حياة هنيئة أو حياة تنفع (قَدَ آجْلَحَ مَ تَرَجَىٰ فاز من تطهر بالإيمان (وَذَكَرَ إسْمَ رَبِّهِ) مكبرا ( بَصَلّي الصلوات الخمس أو صلاة الفطر على القول بأنها نزلت في صلاة الفطر (بَلْ تُوثِرُونَ الْحَيَوةَ الدُّنْيَا تختارون الدنيا على الآخرة لقربها (وَالآخِرَةُ) المشتملة على الجنة خَيْرٌ وَأَيْفِيُّ ما كان أبقى فهو خير لا سيما هو خير وأبقى «وَالآَخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْفِيٌ» والله خير وأبقى. الآخرة خير من الدنيا وأبقى والله خير منهما وأبقى ( إِلَّ هَذَا أي فلاح من تزكى وكون الآخرة خير وأبقى لَصِى الصُّحْفِ الأولِى) المنزلة قبل القرآن (صُحْفِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسِى) وهي التي نزلت على إبراهيم الخليل والتي نزلت على موسى بن عمران لحديث أبي ذر: دخلت المسجد فوجدت رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فجلست قربه فقال لي: (يا أبا ذر إن للمسجد تحية وتحيته ركعتان قم فصلهما) فقمت فصليت ركعتين وجلست جنب رسول اللّه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فقلت يا رسول اللّٰه

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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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