Sūrat Al-Ṭūr · 52 : 14

Q 52:14 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

هَٰذِهِ اُ۬لتِے بِهَا

(And it is said unto them): This is the Fire which ye were wont to deny — 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-Ṭūr begins at vol. 9, p. 115 (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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Exegesis of the verse

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 48, ¶27 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 108 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الخمسة والجواب هو هذا (إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّكَ لَوَاقِعُ ) لنازل بمستحقه لا محالة ومَّا لَهُ و مِن ذَابِعٍ) التنكير في الكتاب ليشمل كل مصحف، كل ما كتب من القرآن إلى آخر الدهر «مَا لَهُو صِ دَابِعٌ» (يَوْمَ تَمُورُ اُ۬لسَّمَآءُ مَوْراࣰ) تتحرك وتدور (وَتَسِيرُ الْجِبَالُ سَيْرَا تصير هباء منثورا وذلك في يوم القيامة (قَوَيْلٌ) شدة عذاب (يَوْمَيِذٍ لِلْمُكَذِّبِينَ) للرسلِ (الذِيسَ هُمْ فِي خَوْضٍ) باطل (يَلْعَبُونَ) أي يتشاغلون بكفرهم (يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ إِلَىٰ بارِ جَهَنَّمَ دَعَا يدفعون بعنف حتى يقعوا في النار ويقال لهم تبكيتا ( هَذِهِ النَّارُ أَلتِى كُنتُم بِهَا تُكَذِّبُونَ النار التي كذبتم بها في الدنيا هاهي ادخلوها (أَبَسِحْرّ هَذَآ رميتم الأنبياء بالسحر هذه النار التي تحرقكم الآن أسحر هي؟ تبكيت. (أَمَ اَنتُمْ لَا تُبْصِرُونَۖ اَ۪صْلَوْهَا فَاصْبِرُوٓاْ أَوْ لَا تَصْبِرُواْ) صبركم وجزعكم سواء، (سَوَاءُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ) الجزاء من جنس العمل، قالوا لأنفسهم: "سَوَآءُ عَلَيْنَآ أَوَعَظْتَ …

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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 الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 48, ¶28 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 108 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

فلنصبر فصبروا ألفا فلم ينفع، فقالوا نبكي ونتضرع المسلمون ما وجدوا ما وجدوا إلا يجزعهم في الدنيا وبكائهم وخوفهم فصاروا يبكون حتى قال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: لو أجريت سفن في دموعهم لجرت [1]، بكوا حتى صارت في خدودهم أخاديد وبعد هذا قالوا

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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.

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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