And thou seest the hills thou deemest solid flying with the flight of clouds: the doing of Allah Who perfecteth all things. Lo! He is Informed of what ye do — 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 38, ¶36 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
الأنهم خدمة الحضرة، بعد ساعة يبعثون (وَكُلُّ اتُوهُ دَاخِرِينٌ) جميع الخلائق آتون إلى اللّه تبارك وتعالى صاغرين، كلهم متواضع لا ترى متكبرا (وَتَرَى الْجِبَالَ) تبصرها وقت النفخة وتَحْيِبْهَا جَامِدَةً) واقفة مكانها (وَهْيَ تَمُرُّ مَرَّ السَّحَابِ) في ذلك اليوم تجد الجبال تسير سيرا حثيثا على عظمتها تظن أنّها واقفة وهي تسير سيرا مسرعا ثم تصير كالعهن ثم تصير حباء منثورا (صُنْعَ اللَّهِ) صنع اللّٰه ذلك (إِلذة أَتْفَىَ) أحكم ( كُلَّ شَيْءٍ) صنعه (نَّهُو خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَجْعَلُونَ مَى جَآءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ) لا إله إلا اللّٰه يوم القيامة (قَلَهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْهَا) ثواب بسبيها كل حسنة بعشر أمثالها كما تقدم في سورة الأنعام، وأحسن الحسنات لا إله إلا الله. والأولى بالمفسر أن يترك الحسنة على ظاهرها لتشمل غيرها.
Here the verse warrants a claim argued from other authorities. It is not the object of commentary.
Abbreviated answers: the quṭb, the seeing of God in the Garden, ikhlāṣ, hayba, journeying, and quṭbness — editorial summary; the printing states no question here
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al-Fatāwā wa-l-ajwiba · undated · Arabic · §10, p. 260 · Mawsūʿat al-āthār al-nathriyya li-ṣāḥib al-fayḍa al-Tijāniyya, maḥwar 5 · compiled by Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · answered in writing
مختصر الأجوبة: لأني أختصرها جدا خوفا على نفسي من إباحة السر. فالقطب تجل من تجليات الحق يجمع سائر التجليات، والجنة وما فيها من سائر التجليات فهي تجل من تجليات القطب ومعها خمسة عشر عالما كلها يمدها ويتصرف فيها ويستمد هو من الختم الكتم.
The answers in brief — for I am keeping them very short out of fear for myself of making the secret free for the taking. The quṭb is a tajallī among the tajalliyāt of al-Ḥaqq which gathers all the rest of the tajalliyāt; and the Garden and what is in it of all the tajalliyāt is a tajallī among the tajalliyāt of the quṭb. Along with it are fifteen worlds, all of which he supplies and disposes over, while he himself draws his supply from the Seal, the Concealed One.
Excerpt from the answer; the full text is not published here. Translation by Amadu Kunateh. The compiler's footnotes are not included.
§10. The edition prints this reference itself.
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.