Q 11:7 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَهُوَ اَ۬لذِے فِے عَلَي وَلَئِن إِنَّكُم مِنۢ اَ۬لذِينَ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا

And He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days - and His Throne was upon the water - that He might try you, which of you is best in conduct. Yet if thou (O Muhammad) sayest: Lo! ye will be raised again after death! those who disbelieve will surely say: This is naught but mere magic — 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 Hūd begins at vol. 4, p. 193 (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 25, ¶7 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 196 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

جميع العوالم ومحيط بجميع العوالم، وهو أعظم المخلوقات الجسمانية بحيث أن جميع المخلوقات مندرجة تحت العرش [1]، فخلق السماوات السبع والأرضين السبع ووضعها على متن الحوت، حوت رأسه وذنبه يلتقيان عند العرش، وذلك الحوت على قرن ثور، جعل الحوت الذي هل العوالم كلا بين قرنيه، والثور على صخرة والصخرة بيد اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، وتلك الصخرة هي المذكورة في سورة لقمان "يَبْنَىِ إِنَّهَآ إن تَكُ مِثْقَالُ حَبَّهِ مِنْ حَزْدَلِ بَتَكْر مِي صَحْرَة أزْيِ الشَمَوَتِ أَوْ مي الأَرْضِ" لما قال فتكن في صخرة أو في السماوات أو في الأرض علمنا أن تلك الصخرة ليست في السماوات ولا في الأرض، وهي الصخرة الخضراء التي بخضرتها انصبغت هذه السماء التي تلينا، فإذا أراد اللّٰه فناء العالم يفتح الحوت فمه فتسيل البحار كلا في فمه وتصير يبسا في أسرع من لمحة، «وَكَانَ عَرْشُهُۥ عَلَي اَ۬لْمَآءِ» قبل أن يخلق السماوات والأرض، الماء هو أول المخلوقات بعد الحقيقة المحمدية، وكون العرش فوق الماء لا يعني ملاصقتهما، ولكن كان الماء تحت والعرش …

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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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