Q 22:18 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَلَمْ أَنَّ لَهُۥ مَن فِے وَمَن فِے مِّنَ عَلَيْهِ وَمَنْ فَمَا لَهُۥ مِن اِنَّ مَا

Hast thou not seen that unto Allah payeth adoration whosoever is in the heavens and whosoever is in the earth, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the hills, and the trees, and the beasts, and many of mankind, while there are many unto whom the doom is justly due. He whom Allah scorneth, there is none to give him honour. Lo! Allah doeth what He will — 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, ¶83 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 122 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يسجد لله (وَالتُّجُومُ) تسجد لله (وَالْجِبَالْ) كذلك تسجد لله (وَالشَّجَرْ) يسجد لله (وَالدَّوَابُّ تسجد لله (وَكَثِيرمِّنَ النَّاس) هم المؤمنون أيضا يسجدون لله (وَكَثِيرٌ حَقَّ عَلَيْهِ اِ۬لْعَذَابُۖ) فضيحة على الإنسان، جميع خلق اللّٰه يسجدون لله، أما بنو آدم ففيهم من يسجد لله وفيهم من لا يسجد له، ومن يسجدون لله أقل من الذين لا يسجدون لله «وَكَثِيرٌ حَقَّ عَلَيْهِ ٱلْعَذَابُ» الكافرون من بني البشر أكثر من المؤمنين، المؤمنون أقل، بنو آدم عشرة أجزاء تسعة منهم يأجوج ومأجوج كفار كلهم، وجزء منهم مؤمنون، والمؤمنون عشرة أجزاء تسعة منهم منافقون، وواحد منهم مؤمن، والمؤمنون المحقون عشرة أجزاء تسعة منهم عصاة وواحد منهم مطيع، والمطيعون عشرة أجزاء تسعة منهم جهال، وواحد منهم يعبد اللّٰه حقا، والذين يعبدون اللّٰه حقا عشرة أجزاء تسعة منهم في الطريق وفي البرزخ، وواحد منهم أهل المنزل والوصلة، ما وصل إلا واحد1. قطاع الفيافي كثيرون ولكن الواصلين قليل، الحكمة في خلق هذه الموجودات هي إظهار الإنسان الكامل، …

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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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