Q 27:40 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَ۬لذِے مِّنَ أَنَآ بِهِۦ أَنْ إِلَيْكَ فَلَمَّا هَٰذَا مِن أَمَ وَمَن فَإِنَّمَا وَمَن فَإِنَّ

One with whom was knowledge of the Scripture said: I will bring it thee before thy gaze returneth unto thee. And when he saw it set in his presence, (Solomon) said: This is of the bounty of my Lord, that He may try me whether I give thanks or am ungrateful. Whosoever giveth thanks he only giveth thanks for (the good of) his own soul; and whosoever is ungrateful (is ungrateful only to his own soul's hurt). For lo! my Lord is Absolute in independence, Bountiful — 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

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1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 37, ¶113 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

تانونني بمال الدنيا؟ (جَمَا ءَاتبَيْسِ ألَّهُ) من النبوة والملك (خَيْرࣱ مِّمَّآ ءَات۪يٰكُم بَلَ اَنتُم بِهَدِيَّتِكُمْ تَفْرَحُونَۖ) لفخركم بزخارف الدنيا (إرْجِعِ الَيْهِمْ) بما أتيت به من الهدية (فَلَنَاتِينَّهُم بِجَنّودِ لاَ قِبَلَ) لا طاقة (لَهُم بِهَا وَلَنْخْرِجَنَّهُم مِنْهَآ من بلد سيا (آَذِلَّةً وَهُمْ صَغِرُونَ)) إن لم يأتوني مسلمين، فلما رجع إليهم الرسول بالهدية جعلت سريرها داخل سبعة أبيات داخل قصرها وقصرها داخل سبعة قصور وأغلقت الأبواب وجعلت عليها حرسا وتجهزت إلى المسير إلى سليمان لتنظر ما يأمرها به فارتحلت في اثني عشر ألف قَيْل مع كل قيل ألوف كثيرة إلى أن قربت منه على فرسخ شعر بها (قَالَ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا اَ۬لْمَلَؤُاْ اَ۬يُّكُمْ يَاتِينِے بِعَرْشِهَا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَّاتُونِے مُسْلِمِينَۖ) كلف سليمان الجن أن يأتوه بعرش بلقيس من سيا قبل وصولها (قَالَ عِفْرِيتٌ مِنَ الْجِنِّ) هو القوي الشديد (أَنَآ ءَاتِيكَ بِهِۦ قَبْلَ أَن تَقُومَ مِن مَّقَامِكَ) الذي تجلس فيه للقضاء أي من …

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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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