Q 30:40 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اُ۬لذِے ثُمَّ ثُمَّ ثُمَّ هَلْ مِن مَّنْ مِن ذَٰلِكُم مِّن عَمَّا

Allah is He Who created you and then sustained you, then causeth you to die, then giveth life to you again. Is there any of your (so-called) partners (of Allah) that doeth aught of that? Praised and Exalted be He above what they associate (with Him) — 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-Rūm begins at vol. 7, p. 178 (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 39, ¶131 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 145 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

شَءٍ سُبْحَنَهُو وَتَعَلِى عَمَّا يَشْرِكُونٌ ظَهَرَ الْقَسَادُ فِي الْبَرِّ القفار بقحط المطر وقلة النبات ( وَالْبَحْرِ) البلاد التي على الأنهار بقلة مائها (بِمَا كَسَبَتَ اَيْدِے اِ۬لنَّاسِ)) ظهر الفساد في الحيوان قل لبنه ونتاجه وكثر أمراضه وقلت البركات في الزروع وخسرت التجارات كلها بمعاصي بني آدم، والبحر بإغراق السفن وقلة البركة في المياه (لِيُذِيقَهُم بَعْضَ اَ۬لذِے عَمِلُواْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَۖ قُلْ سِيرُواْ فِے اِ۬لَارْضِ فَانظُرُواْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ اُ۬لذِينَ مِن قَبْلُۖ كَانَ أَكْثَرُهُم مُّشْرِكِينَۖ) فأُهلكوا (بَأَفِمْ وَجْهَكَ لِلدِّيِ الْقَيِّمِ) دين الإسلام (مِن قَبْلِ أَنْ يَّاتِيَ يَوْمࣱ لَّا مَرَدَّ لَهُۥ مِنَ اَ۬للَّهِۖ يَوْمَئِذࣲ يَصَّدَّعُونَۖ) يتفرقون بعد الحساب إلى الجنة وإلى النار مَن كَبَرَ مَعَلَيْهِ كُبْرَةُ ) وبال كفره وهو النار (وَمَنْ عَمِلَ صَلِحاً قَلَّا نفُسِهِمْ يَمْهَدُونَ) يوطئون منازهم في الجنة لأنفسهم (لِيَجْزِيَ اَ۬لذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ …

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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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