مِنۢ
That issued from between the loins and ribs — 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-Ṭāriq begins at vol. 10, p. 165 (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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 54, ¶147 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
(إِن كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَمَا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ ) كل نفس عليها حافظ من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى من الملائكة يحفظ ما عملت من خير وشر ( جَلْيَنظرِ الإنسَسُ) نظر اعتبار (مِمَّ خُلِقَ) من أي شيء أنت يا إنسان (خُلِقَ مِن مَّآءࣲ دَافِقࣲ) اندفق من الرجل والمرأة (يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ اِ۬لصُّلْبِ)
Read in context →Not Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s words. Students and successors reading the same verse — kept below and apart, because a school’s reading is evidence of transmission, not of what the master said.
rev. July 2018 · Arabic · Question 15 · tr. Saʿīd Simone Nardella & Adnan Wood-Smith · answered in writing
A similar passage is, “It comes out from between the loins and the ribs” (Qur’an 86:7): from between the loins of the Name and the ribs of the Attribute, just like the previous example.
Muḥammad al-Mishrī, not Shaykh Ibrāhīm — the school reading, in a responsum. Question 15.
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.