Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of the Daybreak — 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-Falaq begins at vol. 10, p. 233 (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.
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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 8 · held at students’ request
Not yet ingested. qul aʿūdhu bi-rabb al-falaq — ONE name only (al-Rabb), because refuge is sought from four worldly harms and the need is worldly. ʿālam al-khalq (dense bodies) against ʿālam al-amr (luminous spirits, angels), from which no harm issues at all.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 56, ¶16 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 223 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
النسائي والبزار وابن مردويه بسند صحيح عن عبد اللّٰه بن أنيس قال: إن رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه تعالى عليه وسلم وضع يده على صدري ثم قال: قل، فلم أدر ما أقول، ثم قال: قل هو اللّٰه أحد فقلت حتى فرغت منها، ثم قال: قل أعوذ برب الفلق من شر ما خلق فقلت حتى فرغت منها، ثم قال: قل أعوذ برب الناس فقلت حتى فرغت منها فقال رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه تعالى عليه وسلم: هكذا فتعوذ وما تعوذ لمتعوذون بمثلهم قط، وسورة المانعة قيل لما روى ابن عباس أنه تعالى قال لنبيه صلى اللّٰه تعالى عليه وسلم حين عرج به أعطيتك سورة الإخلاص وهي من ذخائر كنوز عرشي وهي المانعة تمنع كربات القبر .. وسورة المحضر قيل لأن الملائكة عليهم السلام تحضر لاستماعها إذا قرئت، وسورة المنفرة قيل لأن الشيطان ينفر عند قراءتها، وسورة البراءة قيل لما روي أنه عليه الصلاة والسلام رأى رجلا يقرؤها فقال: أما هذا فقد برىء من الشرك، .. وسورة المذكرة لأنها تذكر خالص التوحيد، وسورة النور قيل لما روي من قوله صلى اللّٰه تعالى عليه وسلم إن لكل شيء نورا ونور القرآن …
Read in context →The printing brackets no quotation here. A run of consecutive words in this paragraph — three at the shortest — occurs in one place in the muṣḥaf and nowhere else, and every āya lying inside that run is credited, so a run crossing a boundary attests both. Matching folds together the letter shapes the scan confuses, so the words need not stand in the āya exactly as printed.
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. Passages 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.