Q 23:16 across the corpus — Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

Q 23:16 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

ثُمَّ إِنَّكُمْ

Then lo! on the Day of Resurrection ye are raised (again) — 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-Muʾminūn begins at vol. 6, p. 167 (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.

Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 35, ¶12 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

تكب) هو الرحم (ثَمَّ خَلَقْنَا النَّطْفَةَ عَلَقَةَ) دما جامدا (يَخَلَفْنَا الْعَلَفَةَ مَضْعَةً)) لحما قدر ما يمضغ (فَخَلَقْنَا اَ۬لْمُضْغَةَ عِظَٰماࣰ فَكَسَوْنَا اَ۬لْعِظَٰمَ لَحْماࣰ) صيرناه لحما (ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَٰهُ خَلْقاً اٰخَرَۖ) بعد هذه التطورات أنشأ اللّٰه خلقه فنفخ فيه الروح فصار حيوانا بعدما كان جمادا (فَتَبَٰرَكَ اَ۬للَّهُ أَحْسَنُ اُ۬لْخَٰلِقِينَۖ) كثرت خيراته وهو أحسن المقدرين، أكمل الخالقين ولا خالق سواه. كان عمر بن الخطاب يستمع عند نزول هذه الآية، فلما وصل إلى هنا جرى على لسانه «تَبَرَكَ أللَّهُ أَحْسَ الْخَلِفِينَ» وكان كاتب النبي عبد اللّٰه بن أبي سرح لما وصلت الآية إلى هنا قال: «فَتَبَرَكَ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ الْخَٰلِقِينُ» فقال النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم اكتب هكذا، هكذا أنزل «فَتَبَرَكَ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ الْخَٰلِقِينُ» أما عبد اللّٰه بن أبي سرح فقد ارتد، قال إن القرآن يتتبع ما يقول هو، وعمر يفتخر بهذه المنقبة، السعادة والشقاوة، عمر كان يفتخر بموافقته للوحي حيث سبق …

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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.