Q 79:46 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

كَأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ إِلَّا اَوْ

On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof — 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-Nāziʿāt begins at vol. 10, p. 135 (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 54, ¶54 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

من أراد الجنة فالطريق إلى الجنة الخوف من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى «وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ، وَنَعَى التَّمْسَ عَيِ الْهَوِىٰ جَإِنَّ ألْجَنَّةَ هِىَ ألْمَأْوِىّ» والعمل الصالح وصحبة الصالحين ومحبتهم والخوف من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى (يَسْئَلُونَكَ) كفار مكة (عَرِ ٱلسَّاعَةِ أَيَّاتَ مُرْسَيْهَا متى وقوعها وقيامها، عبر بالإرساء لأنها كالسفينة تأتي فجأة راسية فقط (هِيمَ) في أي شيء (أَنتَ صِ ذِكْرِبُهَا) ليس عندك علمها حتى تذكرها (إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ مُنتَهَيْهَا ) منتهى العلم عند اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى لا يعلمه غيره، هذا هو الغيب الذي لا يمكن أن يطلع عليه إلا اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى (إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُنذِرُ) إنما ينفع إنذارك (مَنْ يَخْشَيْهَا) من يخاف الساعة ينتفع بعظة النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم (كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا) في قبورهم (إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً اَوْ ضُحَيٰهَاۖ) عندما تقوم القيامة يشك الناس أنهم ما مكثوا في الدنيا ولا في القبور إلا عشية أو ضحاها، أضاف الضحى إلى العشية. …

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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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