وَلَئِنَ مِّنَ كَأَن لَّمْ يَٰلَيْتَنِے مَعَهُمْ
And if a bounty from Allah befell you, he would surely cry, as if there had been no love between you and him: Oh, would that I had been with them, then should I have achieved a great success — 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-Nisāʾ begins at vol. 2, p. 146 (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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 11, ¶95 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
لم يَكْن بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَهُ و مَوَدَّةٌ معرفة وصداقة يقول (يَٰلَيْتَنِے كُنتُ مَعَهُمْ فَأَفُوزَ فَوْزاً عَظِيماࣰۖ)
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 11, ¶96 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
تخذ حظا وافرا من الغنيمة، قال تعالى ( بَلْيَقَائِل فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ) لإعلاء دينه (وَالذِينَ بَشْرُونَ الْخَيْوَ التَّنْبا بِالآَخِرَةِ وَمَنْ يُفَتِل مِ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ يَقْتَلَ) يستشهد ( آَوْ يَعْلِبْ) يظفر بعدوه و تَسَوْقَ نُوتِيهِ أَجْراً عَظِيماً ) جزيلا (وَمَا لَكُمْ لا تَقْتِلُونَ) توبيخ (في سَبِيل أَلِّ وَ) في خلص (الْمَسْتَصْعَصِسَ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَآءِ وَالْوِلْدَنِ) الذين حبسهم الكفار عن الهجرة وآذوهم، قال ابن عباس: كنت أنا وأمي منهم الذِينَ يَقُولُونَ) داعين رَبَتَا) يا ربنا
Read in context →The printing brackets no quotation here. A run of consecutive words in this paragraph — three at the shortest — occurs in one place in the muṣḥaf and nowhere else, and every āya lying inside that run is credited, so a run crossing a boundary attests both. Matching folds together the letter shapes the scan confuses, so the words need not stand in the āya exactly as printed.
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. Passages 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.