Q 18:39 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَلَوْلَآ إِذْ مَا لَا إِلَّا إِن أَنَآ مِنكَ

If only, when thou enteredst thy garden, thou hadst said: That which Allah willeth (will come to pass)! There is no strength save in Allah! Though thou seest me as less than thee in wealth and children — 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-Kahf begins at vol. 6, p. 3 (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 31, ¶50 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

بِرَبِّىَ أَحَداً وَلَوْلَا إِذْ دَخَلْتَ جَنَّتَكَ قُلْتَ مَا شَآءَ اللَّهُ لا قُوَةَ إِلَّ بِاللَّهِ، أرشده أخوه المؤمن إلى أنه بدلا من الكفر لو كان إذا دخل بيته جنته قال ما شاء اللّٰه لم ير فيه مكروها. قال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم (من أعطي خيرا من أهل أو مال فقال عند ذلك ما شاء اللّٰه لا قوة إلا بالله لم ير فيه مكروها) [3] (إِن تَرَنِ أَنَا أَقَلَّ مِنْكَ مَالا ) إذا رأيتني أقل منك مالا

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 31, ¶55 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الملك الحق يوم القيامة هو اللّٰه (هُوَ خَيْرٌ ثَوَاباً من ثواب غيره (وَخَيْرٌ عُفْبات، عاقبة. ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله: ذكر الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أن من أراد أن يدخل داره أو بستانه أو أي شيء له فقال: ما شاء اللّٰه لا قوة إلا بالله لم ير فيه مكروها، فلهذا كتب الإمام مالك في باب داره ما شاء اللّٰه ليتذكره فكلما أراد أن يدخل الدار تذكره وقاله1 ( وَاضْرِبْ لَهُم مَثَلَ الْحَيَوةِ الدُّنْيا كَمَاءٍ انْزَلْنَهُ مِنَ السَّمَآءِ فَاخْتَلَطَ بِهِ) بسبب نزول الماء تكاثف النبات (نَبَاتُ الأرْضِ) وامتزج (بَأَصْبَحَ) هذا النبات صار هَشِيماً) يابسا متفرقة أجزاؤه (تَذْرُوهُ) تثيره وتفرقه (ألرِّيَحُ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَءٍ مُفْتَدِرا اللّه قادر على كل شيء. الدنيا كلا مثلها مثل المطر نزل على الأرض فأنبت، فتجد النباتات مختلطا بعضها ببعض، وبعد أشهر تجدها هشيما تذروه الرياح، كل متاع الدنيا هكذا، والله تبارك وتعالى قادر على كل شيء الذي يقدر على هذا قادر على كل شيء ( الْمَالُ وَالْبَنُوتَ …

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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.

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