Sūrat Al-Zukhruf · 43 : 32

Q 43:32 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَهُمْ نَحْنُ فِے مِّمَّا

Is it they who apportion thy Lord's mercy? We have apportioned among them their livelihood in the life of the world, and raised some of them above others in rank that some of them may take labour from others; and the mercy of thy Lord is better than (the wealth) that they amass — 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, ¶104 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 203 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

رأيت أمي إذا حملت هذا الذي يصيبها من الحمى والمشقة وإذا أخذها الطلق تكاد تموت وعندما طهرت من نفاسها رأيتها معك على الفراش فعلمت أن هذا الذي تكابد من المشقة لولا أن الجماع لذيذ لتركته، من هذا فقط؛ والخمر رأيت السكران يكابد كل ويل وبعد ذلك يعود إلى شرب الخمر، والمملكة رأيت أمراءك كل يوم تأخذ أميرا وتحبسه وتضربه وتصلبه وتقتله ومع ذلك الناس يبادرون يطلبون محله ولم يتعظوا بما وقع فيه فعلمت أن هذا لذيذ فأجازها 1. السعيد من اتعظ بغيره (وَ) اذكر (إِذْ قَالَ إِبْرَهِيمٌ لَا بِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِ إِنَّنِي بَرَآءٌ مِمَّا تَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّ ألذِى قَطَرَنِ) خلقني ( إِنَّهُ و سَيَهْدِينٌ) يرشدني (وَجَعَلَهَا) كلمة التوحيد المفهومة من قوله "إِنّي ذَاهِبٌ إِلَىٰ رَبِّي سَيَهْدِين" (كَلِمَةً بَاقِيَةَ فِي عَقِبِهِ) ذرية إبراهيم فلا يزال فيهم من يوحد اللّٰه إلى يوم القيامة (لَعَلَّهُمْ) أهل مكة ( يَرْجِعُونَ) عما هم عليه إلى دين إبراهيم أبيهم بَلْ مَتَّعْتُ هؤلاءٍ المشركين وَءَابَآءَهُمْ)) ولم أعاجلهم بالعقوبة …

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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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