If ye are thankless, yet Allah is Independent of you, though He is not pleased with thanklessness for His bondmen; and if ye are thankful He is pleased therewith for you. No laden soul will bear another's load. Then unto your Lord is your return; and He will tell you what ye used to do. Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men) — 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-Zumar begins at vol. 8, p. 136(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 17, ¶60 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
أهل الإيمان وأهل الهداية أقل من غيرهم وما الحكمة في هذا؟ إن الإيمان عزيز والشيء إذا قل يكون عزيزا وإذا تكاثر عند كل أحد يكون غير عزيز عند الناس، فلما أراد اللّه أن يكون
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 45, ¶102 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 203 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
حق والتي بنوا عليها كذب، جعلوا الحق بمنزلة الخلق، إن اللّه تبارك وتعالى شاء شركهم وعبادتهم للأصنام ومعاصيهم، لولا أنه شاء هذا ما كان، ونحن معشر المخلوقين إذا شئنا شيئا سنرضى به لأننا لا نشاء إلا شيئا فيه منفعتنا وليس فيه مضرتنا، فالإنسان لا يشاء إلا ما فيه منفعته، فإذاً كل ما شاء الإنسان فهو راض به، والحق بعكس ذلك. اللّٰه لا يكون إلا ما شاء، ولكن هو يشاء شيئا ولا يرضى به، "إن تَكْفُرُواْ فَإِنَّ أللَّةَ غَنِيٌّ عَنكُمٌّ وَلاَ يَرْضِىٰ لِعِبَادِهِ الْكُبْرُ" هو الذي شاء الكفر ولكن لا يحبه، هو الذي خلق الكافرين وهو عدو للكافرين "جَإِنَّ أللَّهُ عَدَوٌّ لِلْجَهِرِينٌ" هو الذي خلق المعصية وشاءها ولكنه لا يحبها، هو الذي خلق الطاعة والتوبة والطهارة ويحبها "إِنَّ أللَّهَ يُحِبُّ التَّوَّبِسَ وَيُحِبُّ الْمُتَطَهِرِينٌ"،
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.