إِلَيْكَ مَا إِلَيْهِمْ وَلَعَلَّهُمْ
With clear proofs and writings; and We have revealed unto thee the Remembrance that thou mayst explain to mankind that which hath been revealed for them, and that haply they may reflect — 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-Naḥl begins at vol. 5, p. 124 (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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 29, ¶124 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 100 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
(والزَبري) الكتب (وَأَنزَلْتَ إِلَيْكَ الذِّكْرَ) القرآن ( لِتَبَيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ مَا نُزِّلَ إِلَيْهِمْ) فيه من
Read in context →Here the verse warrants a claim argued from other authorities. It is not the object of commentary.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 1, ¶1 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 29 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
ينبغي لكل شارع في فن أن يعرف مبادئه، حدّه، وحدُّ هذا الفن علم تعرف به معاني كلام الله، واسمه علم التفسير. والتفسير والتأويل ليسا على معنى واحد، التفسير معناه ما يفسر كلام اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى من جهة المنقول، والتأويل ما يؤيد احتمال الكلام لمعنى به من جهة العقل. لابد من النقل في التفسير، لأن القرآن يقول للرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم «لِتُبَيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ مَا نُزِّلَ إِلَيْهِمْ»، فلهذا يعتمد في التفسير ما فسر به الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم. وإذا لم يوجد نقل عن الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فيقبل التفسير بالمعقول، لأن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى يقول: «قُرْءَناً عَرَبِيّاْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ»، هذه الآية أعطتنا أن نتعقل حتى نفهم معنى كلام اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى. سئل علي كرم اللّٰه وجهه:
Read in context →Lesson 1 runs Q 1:1–Q 2:5. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.
السؤال الأول عن قوله تعالى: ﴿هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ…﴾ (البقرة:2-5) هل الصفات متحدة أو متباينة؟ … السؤال الثاني: عن قوله تعالى: ﴿فَإِنْ ءَانَسْتُم مِّنْهُمْ رُشْداً فَٱدْفَعُوٓاْ إِلَيْهِمْ﴾ (النساء:6) من المراد بهم في هذه الآية من أرباب الأحوال؟
al-Fatāwā wa-l-ajwiba · undated · Arabic · §4, p. 249 · Mawsūʿat al-āthār al-nathriyya li-ṣāḥib al-fayḍa al-Tijāniyya, maḥwar 5 · compiled by Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · answered in writing
اعلم رزقنا الله وإياك الفهم عنه أن الله تبارك وتعالى جمع الكتب المنزلة كلها في سبعة أسباع القرآن. وجمع الأسباع السبعة في السبع المثاني، وجمع ذلك في سبعة أحرف بسم الله، وجمع ذلك في الألف، وافتتح به كتابه العزيز… ﴿هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ﴾، أي: على الخصوص إرشادا وهدى، على الناس كلها بيانا… وليس في كون بعض الناس لم يهتدوا ما يخرجه من أن يكون هدى، فالشمس شمس وإن لم يرها الضرير.
Know — may Allah grant us and you understanding from Him — that Allah gathered all the sent-down books into the seven sevenths of the Qurʾān; and gathered the seven sevenths into the seven oft-repeated; and gathered that into the seven letters of bismillāh; and gathered that into the alif, and opened His Mighty Book with it… ﴿a guidance for those of taqwā﴾ — that is, for them in particular as direction and guidance, and for all people as clarification… The fact that some people have not taken the guidance does not remove it from being guidance: the sun is the sun even if the blind man does not see it.
Excerpt from the answer; the full text is not published here. Translation by Amadu Kunateh. The compiler's footnotes are not included.
§4. The edition prints this reference itself.
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.