Q 19:41 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فِے إِبْرَٰهِيمَ إِنَّهُۥ

And make mention (O Muhammad) in the Scripture of Abraham. Lo! he was a saint, a prophet — 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 Maryam begins at vol. 6, p. 40 (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 32, ¶35 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 40 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أبناء الدنيا يغفلون عن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى ويقبلون على الدنيا، يأتيهم الموت فيرجعون إلى اللّٰه قهرا وهم كارهون لذلك. وأهل اللّه رفضوا الدنيا وأقبلوا على اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى يحبون لقاء اللّٰه في كل لحظة فيأتيهم الموت فيرجعون من اللّٰه إلى الله، وهم يحبون ذلك، هذا معنى (من أحب لقاء اللّٰه أحب اللّٰه لقاءه) [1]، الذي لا يشتغل إلا بعمارة الدنيا وخراب الآخرة يكره أن ينتقل من العمارة إلى الخراب طبعا، والذي عمر آخرته أو خدم حضرة اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى حتى قرب منه كل وقت يتمنى لقاء اللّٰه ويحب لقاء اللّٰه فإذا جاءه الموت يكون انتقالا من دار إلى دار فقط، ولكن الرجوع إلى اللّٰه لابد منه، إما قهرا وإما لطفا، إما أن يأتيه العبد طائعا وهذا أفضل في الأحرار، أو يأتي في السلاسل قهرا ورغما، فالأحسن أن نرجع إلى اللّٰه قبل الرجوع إليه، هذا معنى (موتوا قبل أن تموتوا)2 الإنسان إذا مات قبل الموت لا يخاف الموت وإذا بقي ينتظر الموت ويخافه لابد يكره الموت وإذا جاءه الموت يرى شيئا يخافه. (وَاذْكُرْ فِي الْكِتَبِ …

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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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