Q 9:129 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فَإِن لَآ إِلَّا هُوَۖ عَلَيْهِ وَهُوَ

Now, if they turn away (O Muhammad) say: Allah sufficeth me. There is no Allah save Him. In Him have I put my trust, and He is Lord of the Tremendous Throne — 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-Tawba begins at vol. 4, p. 74 (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 23, ¶80 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

وقلبه من الرحمة، وفؤاده من الشفقة، وكفاه من السخاوة، وريقه من عسل الجنة، فلهذا ما تفل في بعر إلا وصار عذيا، وشعره من نبات الجنة1، فجاء فينا رؤوفا رحيما. حاه الله بحليته، اللّٰه رؤوف رحيم والنبي رؤوف رحيم، ولكن الفرق بين مقام الألوهية ومقام العبودية ظاهر في الآية: إن اللّه بالناس لرؤوف رحيم، النبي بالمؤمنين رؤوف رحيم. اللّٰه رؤوف رحيم بالناس كلا، فإذا ألقى رآفته ورحمته في الناس خرجوا مؤمنين فإذا كانوا مؤمنين دخلوا في رأفة النبي ورحمته فرحمة اللّٰه ورأفته هي الجاذبة للعبد حتى يصل إلى رحمة النبي ورأفته، (بَإِن تَوَلَّوْه) عن الإيمان بك ( جَفْلُ حَسْبِىَ اللَّهِ) كافي اللّٰه (لَا إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوّ عَلَيْهِ تَوَكِّلْتُ) به وتُقت لا بغيره ووَهُوَ رَبُّ الْعَرْشِ) الكرسي أو يترك على ظاهره أولى رب العرش هو رب العرش (الْعَظِيم) خصه بالذكر لأنه أعظم المخلوقات. وروى الحاكم في المستدرك عن أبي بن كعب قال: آخر آية نزلت لقد جاءكم رسول إلى آخر السورة2، هي آخر ما كتب عندما جمعوا القرآن. آخر آية نزلت: …

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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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