Q 27:21 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

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I verily will punish him with hard punishment or I verily will slay him, or he verily shall bring me a plain excuse — 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-Naml begins at vol. 7, p. 85 (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 37, ¶104 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ويشربون، فلما أتى وقت الصلاة وأرادوا الماء طلب الهدهد ولم يجده، أو قيل إن الهدهد لما تغيب بقي محله فارغا فدخلت منه الشمس 1 فنظر سليمان فرأى أن طيرا من الطيور تخلف فإذا هو الهدهد، فسأل عنه 2 (بَقَلَ مَا لِ لَا أَرَى الْهُدْهُدَ أَمْ كَاتَ مِنَ الْغَائِيِينَ) فلم أره ولأَعَذِّبَنَّهُ و عَذَاباً شَدِيداً ) تعذيبا شديدا بنتف ريشه وذنبه ورميه في الشمس هذا كان حسهم ( اوْ لَا اذْبَحَنَّهُةَ) أو أقتلنه (أَوْ لَيَاتِيَنِّے بِسُلْطَٰنࣲ مُّبِينࣲۖ) ببرهان بيّن فأرسل الصقر أنه يطلب له الهدهد أينما كان، فطار الصقر فرآه من جهة اليمن من جهة سبا، فلما أراد الدنو منه قال إياك لا تمسني، اتق الله، فقال: نبي اللّٰه غضب عليك وأوعدك قال: ما استثنى شيئا؟ قال: بلى «أَوْ لَيَاتِيَنِّي بِسُلْطَرِ مُبِيرِ» قال: سآتيه بسلطان مبين (جَمَكُتَ غَيْرَ بَعِيدِ) يسيرا من الزمان وحضر لسليمان فلما حضر لسليمان متواضعا رفع رأسه وأرخى ذنبه وجناحيه وقال: تذكّرْ وقوفك بين يدي اللّٰه تعالى وهو أقوى عليك منك علي، فارتعد سليمان …

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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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