Q 36:65 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

عَلَيٰٓ بِمَا

This day We seal up their mouths, and their hands speak out to Us and their feet bear witness as to what they used to earn — 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 Yā-Sīn begins at vol. 8, p. 71 (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 42, ¶87 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 55 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

جَهَنَّمْ ألتِهِ كُنتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ إَصْلَوْهَا) ادخلوها (ألْيَوْمَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْبُرُونَ) صاروا يقسمون بالله أنَّهم ما أشركوا قط ولا عصوا اللّٰه "وَاللَّهِ رَبِّنَا مَا كُنَّا مُشْرِكِينَ" (اَ۬لْيَوْمَ نَخْتِمُ عَلَيٰٓ أَفْوَٰهِهِمْ وَتُكَلِّمُنَآ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَتَشْهَدُ أَرْجُلُهُم بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكْسِبُونَۖ) لما أرادوا أن يكذبوا يوم القيامة، وذلك اليوم لا يمكن فيه الكذب، ختم اللّٰه على أفواههم وأنطق جميع الأعضاء، فكل عضو يشهد بما عمل، الرجْلان تقولان مشينا لكذا وكذا مما نهى اللّٰه عنه، واليدان تقولان إنهما أمسكتا بكذا وكذا مما حرم الله، الفرج يقول: أنا دخلت حيث نهاني الله، البطن: أنا أكلت الحرام، اللسان: أنا كذبت واغتبت ونممت، الأذنان: استمعنا إلى كذا وكذا، العينان كذلك، كل عضو ينطق بما عمل من سوء. وكما تشهد لأهل الشر بالشر تشهد لأهل الخير بالخير، اللسان يقول: أنا قرأت القرآن وذكرت الله، البصر: أنا نظرت في المصحف، النظر لا يكون عبادة إلا في أربعة أشياء: النظر في المصحف، …

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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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