Q 23:88 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مَنۢ وَهُوَ وَلَا عَلَيْهِ إِن

Say: In Whose hand is the dominion over all things and He protecteth, while against Him there is no protection, if ye have knowledge — 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-Muʾminūn begins at vol. 6, p. 167 (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 35, ¶60 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

فتعلمون أن القادر على الخلق ابتداء قادر على الإحياء بعد الموت وقُلْ مَن رَبُّ السَّمَوَاتِ السَّبْعِ وَرَبُّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيم) الكرسي (سَيَقُولُونَ لِلهِ دائما جلال [1] يفسر العرش بالكرسي والأولى تركه على ظاهره، العرش والكرسي شيئان ( فُلَ آبَلا تَتَّفُونَ تحذرون (قُلْ مَنۢ بِيَدِهِۦ مَلَكُوتُ كُلِّ شَےْءࣲ) ملك كل شيء والتاء للمبالغة ( وَهُوَ يُجِيرٌ وَلَاَ يُجَارُ عَلَيْهِ) يحمي ولا يحمى عليه (إِن كَنْتَمْ تَعْلَمُونُ سَيَقُولُونَ لِلهِ قُلْ بَأَيَبِىٰ تُسْحَرُونٌ) تخدعون وتصرفون عن الحق عبادة اللّه وحده، كيف يتخيل لكم أنه باطل؟ (بَلَ آَتَيْنَٰهُم بِالْحَقِ)

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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 1, ¶38 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 29 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الخلق، وهو في نفسه صفته الرحمة "كتب على نفسه الرحمة"، (ٱلرَّحِيمِ) صفة ذاتية متصف بالرحمة أزلا وأعطى الرحمة أيضا. هذا هو الذي يقوي رجاءنا، أنعم فقط وليس خطأً، إنما هو هذه صفته «كَتَبَ عَلَىٰ نَفْسِهِ الرَّحْمَةَ» قال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: (إن اللّٰه خلق مائة رحمة، ادخر عنده تسعة وتسعين جزءا وأنزل جزءا واحدا به جميع ما في الدنيا من الرحمة ومن الخيرات ومن النعم، وبه يتراحم الخلق حتى الدابة ترفع حافرها عن ولدها بهذا الجزء الواحد، وإذا جاء يوم القيامة ضم هذا الجزء إلى التسعة والتسعين فصارت مائة كاملة وخص بها أهل الإيمان فقط، فلا يرحم إلا أهل الإيمان).[25]

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Lesson 1 runs Q 1:1–Q 2:5. 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.

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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