Q 40:22 across the corpus — Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

Q 40:22 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ إِنَّهُۥ

That was because their messengers kept bringing them clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty) but they disbelieved; so Allah seized them. Lo! He is Strong, severe in punishment — 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 Ghāfir begins at vol. 8, p. 159 (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.

Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 44, ¶32 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

اللَّهِ مِنْ وَاقِّ ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّهَمْ كَانَت تَاتِيهِمْ رَسَلَهُم بِالْبَيِّنَٰتِ بالمعجزات الظاهرات (بَكَرُوا بَأَخَدَهُمْ أَللَّةُ إِنَّهُ قَوِيٌّ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ وَلَقَدَ ارْسَلْنَا مُوبسِىٰ بِئَاتَتِنَا وَسَلْطَسٍ مُبِيسٍ) برهان بين ظاهر (اِلَيٰ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَامَٰنَ وَقَارُونَ فَقَالُواْ) هو موسى (سَٰحِرࣱ كَذَّابࣱۖ فَلَمَّا جَآءَهُم بِالْحَقِّ) بالصدق (مِنْ عِندِنَا قَالُواْ اُ۟قْتُلُوٓاْ أَبْنَآءَ اَ۬لذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ مَعَهُۥ وَاسْتَحْيُواْ) استبقوا (نِسَاءَهُمْ) رجعوا إلى عادتهم الأولى مع بني إسرائيل يقتلون الأبناء ويتركون البنات (وَمَا كَيْدَ الْكِفِرِيَ إِلاَّا مِي ضَكَلٍ) هلاك (وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ ذَرُونِےٓ أَقْتُلْ مُوس۪يٰ) أراد فرعون أنه يقول إنه يقتل موسى ويقول اتركوني حتى أقتل موسى، قال كأنهم كانوا يكفونه عن قتله، لا ما كفه أحد هذا فيه وهن، ما أمسكه أحد وهو يقول «دَرُونِةِ أَفْتُلْ مُوسىٰ» هاهو موسى اقتله، (وَلْيَدْعُ رَبَّهُ) ليمنعه مني، فليدع موسى ربه هل يقدر أن …

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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.