لَكَ وَمِن لَّكَۖ عَلَيْنَآۖ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ
Our Lord! And make us submissive unto Thee and of our seed a nation submissive unto Thee, and show us our ways of worship, and relent toward us. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Relenting, 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-Baqara begins at vol. 1, p. 54 (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 5, ¶45 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 120 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
ألييْتِ) يبنيه (وَاسْمَعِيلٌ)) يبني معه يقولان {رَبَّنَا تَقَبَّلْ مِنَّا بناءنا (إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ رَبَّنَا وَاجْعَلْنَا مُسْلِمَيْنِ) منقادين (لَكَ وَ) اجعل ص ذُرِّبَّتِنَاه أولادنا أَمَّةَ )
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 5, ¶46 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 120 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
جماعة ( مُسْلِمَةَ لَكً) علم أن بعض ذريته من الظالمين فلهذا طلب منه أن تكون منهم أمة مسلمة (وَأَرِنَا) علمنا ( مَنَاسِكَنَا) شرائع ديننا أو حجنا (وَتُبْ عَلَيْنَآ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمْ بيت الله تبارك وتعالى جعله اللّٰه مثابة للناس وأمنا. هو الكعبة التي بمكة أو ببكة، بكة لغة في مكة أو الموضع الذي عليه الكعبة فقط هو بكة. والكعبة بنيت عشر مرات: البناء الأول بناها الملائكة، والثاني بناها آدم، وبناها شئث بن آدم جد الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، وبناها إبراهيم رابعا بعد الطوفان وبناؤه هو الذي جاءت فيه الآية، وبعد إبراهيم بناها العمالقة، وبنتها جرهم، وبناها قصي بن كلاب، وبنتها قريش، وبناها عبد اللّٰه بن الزبير، وبناها الحجاج، بناء الحجاج هو القائم الآن[22] . الملائكة اغتابوا آدم وبعد ذلك طلبوا التوبة من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى وعندهم البيت المعمور هو الكعبة في السماء يطوفون به دائما فأمرهم اللَّه أن يبنوا لآدم مثل هذا البيت فبنوا الكعبة في مقابلة البيت المعمور لو وقع البيت المعمور على …
Read in context →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.