Exalt not yourselves against me, but come unto me as those who surrender — 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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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 الكريمtafsīr
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 1, ¶31 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 29 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
والحجة الثانية أن البسملة ابتداء بسم اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، والله تبارك وتعالى أمر أنبياءه قبل الرسول أن يبدأوا ببسم اللّٰه في كل أمورهم. قال نوح: «بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ مُجْرِيْهَا وَمُرْسِيْهَا» وقال سليمان: «انَّهُ مِن سُلَيْمَنَ وَإِنَّهُ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ أَلَّا تَعْلُواْ عَلَىَّ». والنبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم كلف في القرآن بأن يقتدي بجميع الأنبياء «فَبِهُديهُمْ اقْتَدِهِ» فوجب عليه أن يبتدئ بالبسملة كما ابتدأوا بها قبله، وهذا يوجب عليه البسملة ويوجبها علينا نحن، «اتَّبِعُوهُ»، النبي صلى اللّه عليه وسلم واجب عليه أن يتبع من قبله من الأنبياء، ونحن واجب
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.