Sūrat Al-Ḥijr · 15 : 49

Q 15:49 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

أَنِّيَ أَنَا

Announce, (O Muhammad) unto My slaves that verily I am the Forgiving, the Merciful — 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-Ḥijr begins at vol. 5, p. 100 (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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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 29, ¶42 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 100 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يا محمد (عِبَادِىَ أَنِّىَ أَنَا الْعَبّورُ) للمؤمنين الرَّحِيمُ بهم *وَأنَّ عَذَّابِه للعصاة فوهُوَ ألْعَذَّابُ الأَلِيمْ) كلما ذكر وعدا أردفه بوعيد ليكون المؤمن خائفا راجيا أبدا، قال «نَيِّخِ عبّادِىَ أَنِّي أَنَا ألغَهُورَ الرَّحِيمُ وَأَنَّ عَذَّابِ هُوَ الْعَذَابُ الأَلِيم»، ولكن أكد الرحمة أشد من العذاب حيث وصف نفسه بالمغفرة والرحمة «أنَا الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ» وأضاف العذاب إليه («وَأَنَّ عَذَابِے هُوَ اَ۬لْعَذَابُ اُ۬لَالِيمُۖ» لم يقل أنا المعذب المؤلم كما قال "مَنْ خَشِىَ ألرَّحْمَرَ "كلما ذكر وعدا ذكر وعيدا، ليكون المؤمن يطير بجناحين الخوف والرجاء، هذا في حق العوام، أما في حق الخواص فيبدل خوفهم بالقبض ورجاؤهم بالبسط. الفرق الخوف لما يستقبل والرجاء لما يستقبل، والخواص لا يلتفتون لمستقبل ولا ماض، حكمهم حكم وقتهم، إذا عرى شيء يحملهم على القبض انقبضوا لحكم الوقت، أو انبسطوا لحكم الوقت، وإذا ترقوا إلى مرتبة خواص الخواص يبدل الرجاء والخوف بالأنس والهيبة، يتجلى الحق بالجمال فيتأنسون …

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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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