Q 59:21 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَوَ هَٰذَا عَلَيٰ مِّنْ وَتِلْكَ لَعَلَّهُمْ

If We had caused this Qur'an to descend upon a mountain, thou (O Muhammad) verily hadst seen it humbled, rent asunder by the fear of Allah. Such similitudes coin We for mankind that haply they may reflect — 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-Ḥashr begins at vol. 9, p. 204 (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 50, ¶88 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 189 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

1، (لَوَ اَنزَلْنَا هَٰذَا اَ۬لْقُرْءَانَ عَلَيٰ جَبَلࣲ) وجعل فيه تمييزا كالإنسان (لَرَأَيْتَهُ و خَشِعاً مَتَصَدِّعاً) حتى الجبل لو سمع هذا القرآن كما تسمعونه أنتم لخشع لله تبارك وتعالى وتشقق (مِّنْ خَشْيَةِ اِ۬للَّهِۖ وَتِلْكَ اَ۬لَامْثَٰلُ نَضْرِبُهَا لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَۖ) هذا مثل أن قلوب بني آدم أشد قسوة من الحجارة فإن الحجارة لو سمعت هذا القرآن لتخشعت وهُوَ اللَّهُ ألذِى لَا إِلَةَ إِلَّ هُوَ عَٰلِمْ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَدَةِ) السر والعلانية (هُوَ اَ۬لرَّحْمَٰنُ اُ۬لرَّحِيمُۖ هُوَ اَ۬للَّهُ اُ۬لذِے لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ اَ۬لْمَلِكُ اُ۬لْقُدُّوسُ) الطاهر عما لا يليق به (السَّلَمْ) ذو السلامة من النقائص، اللّه اسمه السلام سلام ذاتا سلام صفة سلام فعلا ( الْمُومِنُ) المصدق رسله بخلق المعجزة أو المصدق للمؤمنين ما وعد لهم ( الْمُهَيْمِ) الرقيب على كل شيء الْعَزِيزُ) القوي (الْجَبَّارُ) تجبر على خلقه، يجبر خلقه على ما يريد الْمُتَكَبِّرَ)) عما لا يليق به (سُبْحَرَ …

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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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