Q 43:13 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

عَلَيٰ ثُمَّ إِذَا عَلَيْهِ اَ۬لذِے لَنَا هَٰذَا وَمَا لَهُۥ

That ye may mount upon their backs, and may remember your Lord's favour when ye mount thereon, and may say: Glorified be He Who hath subdued these unto us, and we were not capable (of subduing them) — 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-Zukhruf begins at vol. 8, p. 230 (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 45, ¶86 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 203 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(الذِى جَعَلَ لَكْمُ الأَرْضَ مِهَدا فراشا كالمهد (وَجَعَلَ لَكُمْ فِيهَا سُبْلًا ) طرقا (لَعَلَّكْمْ تَهْتَدُونَ) إلى مقاصدكم. كل قرية تسمى ستعرفون طريقا توصلكم إليها وتلك السبل إنما وضعها الله، ليست منكم (وَالذِے نَزَّلَ مِنَ اَ۬لسَّمَآءِ مَآءَۢ بِقَدَرࣲ) بقدر حاجتكم إليه ولم ينزله طوفانا، ولو شاء لجعله طوفانا مطرا مستمرا، والناس يحبون المطر وإذا استمر أياما ملوا منه ( بَأَنشَرْنَا) أحيبنا (بِهِ بَلْدَةً مَيْتَاً كَذَلِكَ) مثل هذا الإحياء (تُخْرَجُونَ)) من قبوركم أحياء (وَالذِى خَلَقَ الأزْوَجَ) الأصناف (كُلَّهَا وَجَعَلَ لَكُم مِنَ الْفُلْكِ) السفن (وَالانْعَمِ) كالإبل (مَا تَرْكَبُونَ لِتَسْتَوْا ) تستقروا (عَلَى ظهُورِه.) ذكّر الضمير وجمع الظهر نظرا للفظ ما ومعناها ثُمَّ تَذْكْرُواْ نِعْمَةَ رَبِّكُمُ إِذَا إسْتَوَيْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ وَتَفُولُواْ سَبْحَرَ ألِى سَخَّرَ لَنَا هَٰذَا وَمَا كُنَّا لَهُو مُفْرِنِينَ) إن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى خلق لنا من الإبل ما نركب، والإنسان عندما يركب …

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 45, ¶88 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 203 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ركب علي بن أبي طالب كرم اللّٰه وجهه فقال: سبحان اللّٰه والحمد لله والله أكبر سبحان الذي سخر لنا هذا وما كنا له مقرنين. ثم ضحك فقيل له: لم ضحكتَ؟ فقال رأيت الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم قال هذا وضحك 2. وقال إن العبد إذا قال هذا غفر اللّٰه له ذنوبه وأوجب له الجنة. وهذه الدواب خلقها اللّٰه إكراما للبشر، والركوب من خاصية البشر لا ترى شيئا من خلق اللّٰه يركب إلا الإنسان "وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِتِ ءَادَمَ وَحَمَلْنَٰهُمْ فِي اِلْبَرِ

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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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