Sūrat Al-Fatḥ · 48 : 2

Q 48:2 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَكَ مَا مِن وَمَا عَلَيْكَ

That Allah may forgive thee of thy sin that which is past and that which is to come, and may perfect His favour unto thee, and may guide thee on a right path — 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-Fatḥ begins at vol. 9, p. 50 (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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loci in the corpus
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distinct acts
1956 – 1964
attested span
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text available

This verse across his life

Each mark is one work in which Shaykh Ibrāhīm engages this verse, placed by date of composition. Hollow marks are loci we know of but cannot yet show.

1960
March–April 1956al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya
1964Fī riyāḍ

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 46, ¶83 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ذلك على النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فأنزل اللّه تعالى "إِنَّا فَتَحْنَا لَكَ فَتْحاً مُبِيناً لِيَغْفِرَ لَكَ اللَّهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ من ذَنْبِكَ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ".

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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.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 46, ¶169 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

خروجهم يرجعون إلى منازهم فذبح الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم هداياه ورجع وقومه في حزن شديد من رجوعهم ولم يصلوا إلى البيت، وفي الليل أنزل اللّٰه عليه هذه السورة فقال إن اللّه أنزل علي سورة لهي أحب إلي من الدنيا وما فيها، أحب إلي مما طلعت عليه الشمس 1 فنزلت هذه السورة (إِنَّا بَتَحْنَا لَكَ) قضينا لك بفتح مكة (بَنْحاً مُبِيناً لِيَغْفِرَ لَكَ ٱللَّهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِن ذَنْبِكَ وَمَا تَأَخَرَ وَيْتِمَّ نِعْمَتَهُو عَلَيْكَ وَيَهْدِيَكَ صِرَاطاً مُسْتَقِيماً وَيَنصُرَكَ اللَّهُ نَصْراً عَزِيزاً) أخبره تبارك وتعالى أنه فتح له فتحاكبيرا فتحا مبينا «لِيَغْفِرَ لَكَ اللَّهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِن ذَنْبِكَ» والفتح ليس هو السبب في الغفران، إن النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم غفر له ما تقدم من ذنبه وما تأخر قبل الفتح وبعد الفتح لأن مغفرته هي عصمته

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 46, ¶177 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

Not yet ingested. This locus is recorded because the attribution is attested, not because the text is available here.

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Glossed in passing

A single interpretive equivalence, often a received one, rather than commentary proper.

al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya al-maʾkhūdha min al-qalam al-Sīrīnbiyya

الحكم القطبية المأخوذة من القلم السيرينبيةgloss

Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 6 · held at students’ request

Not yet ingested. li-yaghfira laka llāhu — the agent is not repeated; God assigns the act to Himself. The Prophet being maʿṣūm, the maghfira returns to the umma (cf. li-yudkhila l-muʾminīn). Three things no veil stops: a parent's prayer for a child, the prayer of the wronged, the word of ikhlāṣ.

The verse used, not interpreted

Here the verse warrants a claim argued from other authorities. It is not the object of commentary.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 7, ¶8 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

في القرآن وذكر الحبيب. من خلال القرآن نفهم فضلية الحبيب على الخليل، الخليل إبراهيم والخليل من يُعطى مطلبه من خليله، الخليل من الخلة لأن الخليل تسد خَلته ويسد خلّتك فاقتضى هذا أن كل خليل طلب منه خليله شيئا يساعده في مطلوبه وهكذا رأينا إبراهيم قال: "وَالذِة أَطْمَعُ أَنْ يَغْفِرَ لِي خَطِيّئَتِه يَوْمَ ألدِّينِ" هذا طلبٌ منه، طلبَ من اللّٰه أن يغفر له خطيئته يوم الدين فأعطاه اللّٰه مطلبه، ومحمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم من غير طلب: " إِنَّا فَتَحْنَا لَكَ فَتْحاً مُبِيناً لِيَغْفِرَ لَكَ اُللَّهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِن ذَنْبِكَ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ وَيُتِمَّ نِعْمَتَهُ و عَلَيْكً وَيَهْدِيَكً صِرَاطاً مُسْتَقِيماً . الخليل قال: "وَاجْعَل لِّي لِسَانَ صِدْقا فِي الآَخِرِينَ" طلب من اللّه أن يكون ممدوحا في من يأتي بعده، فاستجاب اللّٰه منه هذا الدعاء، حتى اليهود يقولون إنهم على دين إبراهيم والنصارى يقولون إنّهم على دين إبراهيم والمسلمون على دين إبراهيم، هذا يكفي من الثناء، ولكن هذا لا يبلغ: "الَمْ نَشْرَحْ …

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Lesson 7 runs Q 2:253–Q 3:14. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.

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.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 10, ¶24 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 124 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

والله أنا لا أحب الآن إلا القرب منكَ ولكن أذنت لك، فتوضاً ووقف يبكي يبكي حتى وصلت دموعه إلى منحره فجلس فاضجع على خده يبكي حتى وصلت دموعه إلى الأرض فدخل بلال يؤذنه بالفجر ورأى ما به فقال: أتفعل هذا يا رسول اللّٰه وقد غفر اللّٰه لك ما تقدم من ذنبك وما تأخر؟ قال: (أفلا أكون عبدا شكورا)؟2 كيف لا أفعل وقد أنزل علي الليلة هذه الآية "وَيَتَمَكَّرُونَ مِن خَلْوِ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالاَرْضِ". تفكر العامة أن يتفكروا في خلق اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى ليستدلوا بِه على الخالق. وتفكر الخواص في ذات اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، أما

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Lesson 10 runs Q 3:176–Q 4:23. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.

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.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 12, ¶44 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 198 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

وفي سنن الترمذي عن أبي هريرة رضي اللّه عنه "وَاسْتَغْفِرْ لِذَنْبِكَ وَلِلْمُومِنِينَ وَالْمُومِنَٰتِ" فقال النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم (إني لأستغفر اللّٰه في اليوم سبعين مرة) قال هذا حديث حسن صحيح ويروى عن أبي هريرة أيضا عن النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم قال (إني لأستغفر اللّه في اليوم مائة مرة). سنن الترمذي: كتاب تفسير القرآن / باب من سورة محمد (3182).

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Lesson 12 runs Q 4:87–Q 4:147. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.

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.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 37, ¶42 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

واتخذني حبيبا. مقام المحبة فوق مقام الخلة، الخليل من الخلة من يسد حاجتك وتسد حاجته، وفي حق اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى المفاعلة لا تمكن هو الذي يسد خلة إبراهيم فقط، فلهذا الخليل له كل ما طلب من اللّه تبارك وتعالى، والحبيب أعطي من غير طلب، إبراهيم قال «وَالية أَطْمَع أَنْ يَغْفِرَ لِي خَطِيّتَيِ يَوْمَ ألدِّيرِ» طمع في مغفرة الله، هذا طلب فأعطاه اللّٰه المغفرة، ولكن الحبيب ما طلب "إِنَّا فَتَحْنَا لَكَ فَتْحا مُبِيناً لِيَغْفِرَ لَكَ اْللَّهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِن ذَنتْبِكَ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ وَيْتِمَّ نِعْمَتَهُو عَلَيْكَ" أعطي من غير سؤال، إبراهيم قال ".. وَاجْنُبْنِه وَبَنِيَّ أَن نَعْبِدَ الاصْنَامُ" أعطاه اللّه ذلك في بعض ذريته، الحبيب "إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُ أللَّهُ لِيُذْهِبَ عَنكّمُ الرِّجْسَ أَهْلَ ألْبَيْتِ" من غير طلب. الخليل «وَاجْعَل ليِ لِسَانَ صِدْقِ فِي الآَخِرِينٌ» طلب من اللّه أن يمدحه المتأخرون يذكرونه يكون ذكره خالدا إلى يوم القيامة، محمد "آلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ …

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Lesson 37 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 26:1–Q 27:58) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.

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.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 55, ¶56 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

Not yet ingested. Lesson 55 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 87:1–Q 111:5) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 55, ¶108 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

Not yet ingested. Lesson 55 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 87:1–Q 111:5) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.

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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. 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.

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