Q 41:22 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَمَا أَنْ عَلَيْكُمْ وَلَآ وَلَا وَلَٰكِن أَنَّ لَا مِّمَّا

Ye did not hide yourselves lest your ears and your eyes and your skins should testify against you, but ye deemed that Allah knew not much of what ye did — 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 Fuṣṣilat begins at vol. 8, p. 185 (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 44, ¶140 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

\- استغرقت السمع والأبصار وغيرها «وَقَالُواْ لِجُلُودِهِمْ لِمَ شَهِدتُمْ عَلَيْنَا» (قَالُوَاْ أَنطَفَنَا اللَّهُ ألذِة أَنطَقَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ أراد نطقه (وَهُوَ خَلَقَكُمُ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ) يوم القيامة لا يخفى شيء، الرقيب الذي هو اللّه بصير، كل شيء عمله الإنسان أو قاله أو بقي في قلبه هو يعلمه، والأعضاء تشهد على الإنسان والبقاع تشهد على الإنسان، والزمان الليل والنهار يشهدان كذلك، والملائكة تشهد واللوح المحفوظ "هَذَا كِتَبْنَا يَنطِوُ عَلَيْكُم بِالْحَقِ" "لا يَخْصِى عَلَى ألَّهِ مِنْهُمْ شَيْءً قال الشبلي: "واسوأتاه وإن غفرت 1" (وَمَا كُنتُمْ تَسْتَتِرُونَ أَنْ يَّشْهَدَ عَلَيْكُمْ سَمْعُكُمْ وَلَآ أَبْصَٰرُكُمْ وَلَا جُلُودُكُمْۖ) الإنسان إن عمل شيعا خفيه ما قدر أن يخفيه عن سمعه أو عن بصره أو عن جلده (وَلَكِر ظَنَنتُمَ)) عند استماركم (أَنَّ اللَّهَ لا يَعْلَمُ كَثِيراً مِمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ) من علم أن الله رقيب لا يخفى عليه شيء، وإذا استحيبت أن يراك أوجه الناس عندك …

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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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