Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Fātiḥa begins at vol. 1, p. 46(Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)
The site’s Arabic edition follows Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ; the reference text quoted here and the matcher behind the Fī Riyāḍ loci are Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim. Content is nearly identical, but verse-boundary numbering diverges in a handful of places. Each locus carries its own witness’s numbering. Page references 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.
3
loci in the corpus
1
act
1950 – 1964
attested span
2 of 3
text available
This verse across his life
Each mark is one work in which Shaykh Ibrāhīm engages this verse, placed by date of composition. Hollow marks are loci we know of but cannot yet show.
1950
1960
1950-1960Tafsīr maʿānī
March–April 1956al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya
1964Fī riyāḍ
Exegesis of the verse
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
Tafsīr maʿānī al-Qurʾān al-karīm
تفسير معاني القرآن الكريمtafsīr○ reported
1950-1960 · Wolof · cassette not identified · audio · compiled by Introduction by Ibrāhīm M. Diop, Niasse's personal secretary · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
Not located. Sixty-two cassettes of Wolof exegesis covering the whole Qurʾān, recorded 1950–1960 (ALA IV #72). The boxed set has never been located. This locus is listed because the cycle is complete, not because the passage has been found — and because Wolof, not Arabic, was Shaykh Ibrāhīm's normal language of delivery.
al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya al-maʾkhūdha min al-qalam al-Sīrīnbiyya
الحكم القطبية المأخوذة من القلم السيرينبيةtafsīr● verified
Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 2 · held at students’ request
An indication that the servant must observe both the Law and the Reality: Thee do we worship is Law, and Thee do we ask for help is Reality.
Working transcription — not yet proofread against the printing.
Taqdīm al-mafʿūl li-l-ḥaṣr. THE KEY DIVISION: iyyāka naʿbudu = sharīʿa, wa-iyyāka nastaʿīnu = ḥaqīqa. Then ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib on riyāʾ — ṣallaytu al-bāriḥa miʾat rakʿa. Collate against Fī Riyāḍ Lesson 1.
Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr● verified
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 1, ¶60 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 29 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
الرب بمعنى المصلح والمربي، وصلاة العبد تربي إسلامه وتصلحه، والرحمن صيام صيغة مبالغة في الرحمة، العبد بلغ من رحمته بالمسكين حتى أذاق نفسه الجوع الذي يعانيه المسكين
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.