Sūrat Sabaʾ · 34 : 14

Q 34:14 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فَلَمَّا عَلَيْهِ مَا عَلَيٰ إِلَّا فَلَمَّا أَن لَّوْ مَا فِے

And when We decreed death for him, nothing showed his death to them save a creeping creature of the earth which gnawed away his staff. And when he fell the jinn saw clearly how, if they had known the Unseen, they would not have continued in despised toil — 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 Sabaʾ begins at vol. 8, p. 43 (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 41, ¶111 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

جمع جابية وهي حوض كبير (وَفُدُورٍ رَاسِيَات ثابتات كان لها قدور لا تتحرك يطبخون فيها للجيش وقلنا (اِ۪عْمَلُوٓاْ ءَالَ دَاوُۥدَۖ شُكْراࣰۖ) شكرا لله تبارك وتعالى وَقَلِيلٌ مِنْ عِبَادِىَ الشَّكُورُ) يقول الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم من شكر على نعمة قيدها بعقالها ومن لم يشكر فقد عرضها للزوال 1 (فَلَمَّا قَضَيْنَا عَلَيْهِ) على سليمان (إِلْمَوْتَ مَا دَلَّهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَوْتِهِ إِلاَّ دَآبَّةُ الأَرْضِ) لما دنا موت سليمان طلب من اللّٰه أن يخفي موته عن الجن حتى يعلم الإنس أن الجن لا يعلمون الغيب، فمات بعدما صنعوا له قصرا من زجاج يشف فإذا وقف داخل القصر أنت تنظره خارجا، فوقف متكئا على منساته عُكازته فمات وبقي واقفا والجن يعملون ليلا ونهارا يظنون أنه حي حتى أكلت الأرضة تلك المنساة فخر فتفرقوا

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 41, ¶112 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

«مَا دَلَّهُمْ عَلَيٰ مَوْتِهِۦٓ إِلَّا دَآبَّةُ اُ۬لَارْضِ» (( تَاكُلُ مِنسَاتَةُ عصاه (( جَلَمَّا خَرَّ ) ميتا ( تَبَيَّنَتِ اِلْجِنُّ) انكشف لهم (أَن لَوْ كَانُواْ يَعْلَمُونَ الْغَيْبَ مَا لَبِئُواْ فِي اِلْعَذَابِ اِلْمُهِينِ لَقَدْ كَانَ لِسَبَل بلدة في اليمن (مي مَسَكِنِهِمْ ءَايَةً) دالة على قدرة اللّه تبارك وتعالى وجَنَّتَبِ عَنْ يَمِيٍ وَشِمَالٍ كُلُواْ مِ رِزْفِ رَبِّكْمْ وَاشْكُرُواْ لَةٌ و بَلْدَةٌ) سبأ بلدة طَيِّبَةٌ) ليس فيها سباخ ولا بعوضة ولا ذبابة ولا برغوث ولا عقرب ولا حية ويمر الغريب فيها وفي ثيابه قمل فيموت من طيب هوائها (وَرَبّ غَمُور والله رب غفور ( أَعْرَضُوا) عن الشكر

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 41, ¶113 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَيْلَ اَ۬لْعَرِمِۖ) هدم اللّه عرمهم عليهم فسار الماء فتفرقوا أيادي سبأ، ذهب

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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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