Sūrat Al-Ḥajj · 22 : 15

Q 22:15 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مَن أَن لَّنْ فِے اِلَي ثُمَّ هَلْ مَا

Whoso is wont to think (through envy) that Allah will not give him (Muhammad) victory in the world and the Hereafter (and is enraged at the thought of his victory), let him stretch a rope up to the roof (of his dwelling), and let him hang himself. Then let him see whether his strategy dispelleth that whereat he rageth — 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-Ḥajj begins at vol. 6, p. 143 (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 34, ¶81 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 122 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

إن عبده ذَلِكَ الدعاء وهُوَ الضَّاَلُ الْبَعِيدُ)) عبادة ما لا ينفع ولا يضر هو الضلال البعيد يَدْعُواْ لَمَى ضَرُّهُ بعبادته ( أَفْرَبُ صِن نَبْعِهِ بل الضرر في عبادته أقرب من النفع (لَبِيسَ الْمَوْلِى) بئس الناصر هو الصنم (وَلَبِيسَ الْعَشِير)) بئس الصاحب هو هذا {إِلَّ اللَّهَ يُدْخِلُ ألذِيسَ ءَامَنُوا وَعَمِلُواْ الصَّلِحَٰتِ جَنَّتٍ تَجْرِى مِ تَحْتِهَا ألاَنْهَرٌ إِنَّ اْللَّهَ يَبْعَلُ مَا يُرِيدٌ اللّه تبارك وتعالى يدخل المؤمنين الجنة - جعلنا اللّٰه منهم - «إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَفْعَلُ مَايْرِيدٌ» من إكرام من يطيعه وإهانة من يعصيه (مَن كَانَ يَظُرُّ أَن لَنْ يَنصْرَهُ اللَّهُ من كان يظن أن اللّه لا ينصر محمدا (مِ الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ فَلْيَمْدُدْ بِسَبَبٍ) فليمد حبلا طويلا (إلَى السَّمَاءِ) أي سقف بيته يشده فيه وفي عنقه (ثُمَّ لِيَقْطَعْ) ليختنق بهذا الحبل حتى يموت إن كان لا يرى ما يسره في هذه الفعلة، فهو لا يرى ما يسره أبدا إن أراد أن يخذل اللّه محمدا ( فَلْيَنظُرْ هَلْ يُذْهِبَنَّ …

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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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