Q 19:67 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَوَلَا أَنَّا مِن وَلَمْ

Doth not man remember that We created him before, when he was naught — 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, ¶52 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 40 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

اصبر عليها (هَلْ تَعْلَمُ لَهُۥ سَمِيّاࣰۖ) هل تعلم بأحد يسمى الله؟ لا. الكفار على جبروت الملوك ما تسمى أحد منهم باسم الله. قال فرعون "أَنَا رَبُّكُمْ أَلاَعْلِى" ولكن لم يقل أنا الله، قيل: تسمى به جبار فصهر بطنه فسال ما فيه ومات في الحين، فعلى هذا لا تجد لله سميا، بخلاف غير هذا الاسم من الأسماء، الرحمن تسمى مسيلمة الكذاب برحمان اليمامة (وَيَفْولُ الإنسَرُ) هذه الآية نزلت في أبي بن خلف أو الوليد بن المغيرة1، أنكر البعث ذهب إلى المقبرة فنشر عظاما رميمة وأتى للنبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم ففتها في وجهه وقال: من يحيي هذه العظام وهي رميم؟ أنت تقول إن هذه ستحيى؟ وكذب النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم ولم يزل له مواقف ومقالات مع النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم حتى طعنه النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم يوم أحد طعنته المشهورة فصار يصرخ ويقول: النار النار النار «وَيَفُولُ الإنسَرُ» أَبي ( أَذَا مَا مِتُّ لَسَوْق أُخْرَجُ حَيَّأَ سوف أبعث بعد الموت؟ لا، لا حياة بعد الموت، إن من قال هذا فقد كذب ((آوَلا يَذْكُرُ …

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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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